YAS in Silverlake YAS FITNESS CENTER, the seven-year-old yoga and spinning center founded by Kimberly Fowler (pictured, left) with a schedule that includes classes geared for athletes is opening a new location in Silverlake. The new location’s general manager Lauren Henjum says that Silverlake is similar in “vibe and demographics” to Venice, YAS’s [...]
Sustainability is a series of choices, a confluence of action and attitudes. Initially, these may seem like common sense in the same way building a beautiful home happens by simply setting one brick on another. But in the modern world, we have destroyed our collective home more often than we have nurtured it. When we [...]
twins find resolution through ritual onstage "This has long been a dream of mine," rock star Alanis Morissette announced to a theater full of fans. Her dream? To sit side-by-side with twin brother Wade Imre Morissette, who is himself a recording artist and renowned kirtan (Sanskrit call-and-response) singer as well as a talented yoga teacher, [...]
"MC Yogi Brings Joy And Gladness To The Heart." -- Krishna Das MC Yogi is a phenomenon. The next big thing in sacred chant, he’s a rap artist with profound social awareness (check out his songs about Obama and Gandhi) and has a penchant for Hip Hop Hinduism (ala Ganesh, Hanuman, Rama, Krishna and others). [...]
Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. for only about 30 years, yet it is a 5,000-year-old Indian system of medicine and yoga’s sister science. Readers are invited to submit questions for “Ayurveda Q & A” to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com. Ayurveda has been practiced in the US for only about 30 years, yet it is one of [...]
Don’t Think of it as Pain Don’t think of it as pain,” my first yoga teacher used to say. “Think of it as sensation.” Yes, painful sensation. But I did start to think of it as sensation. And it helped. So I shifted my attitude off the mat too. For instance, I didn’t [...]
A yogi commits to political activism. Sometimes we feel moved by experience: a song, a poem that lifts the heart, words that stir the soul, or the speech of a political leader might send one on an arduous journey for a cause. I was recently moved to participate in the Great American Walk for Freedom, [...]
Hurdling To Yoga There have been a lot of hurdles in Amy Wheeler’s life. For fourteen years, she was a heptathlete, training for and competing in division one track and field; heptathletes participate in high jump, shot put, javelin, 200 meter, 800 meter and hurdles. “You look like a hurdler,” T.K.V. Desikachar told [...]
In 2001, the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers (IABYT) helped me take a quantum leap forward in consciousness. When I attended their Annual Summit & Retreat. I had recently resigned my position as the head of a high-profile entertainment company, and was in dire need of a new understanding of my identity: Who [...]
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy by Mukunda Stiles, Lotus Press, 2008 At first glance, I have to admit, this modest looking book, devoid of color photographs, looked b-o-r-i-n-g! But, out of respect for the author, who I first met in the 1970s when we were both taking our teacher training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in [...]