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Yoga for Peace

September 11, 2010 at 9:30 am.

Let's meet at Buckingham Fountain.
It's free, just bring your yoga mat!

For more information, click here.

A View from Inside Child's Pose. And a weekly roundup.

Well, the most exciting thing for me right now is that I have been stretching in my blogging style—to great success! I have been enjoying getting some good conversations going over at Elephant here and here.

My most recent post, Power to the Pubis was picked up by the alumni relations website for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I am honored to see that.

In honor of the female "down there" here is a link to a Web site that specializes in jewelry and things to celebrate the glorious variety nature has created in women!

Super-Power Bloganista, Linda-Sama was interviewed. Learn more about her here.

Bob Weisenberg's conversation from my post, Sexy Yogini + Car at Elephant, was presented again here.

Thank you for reading! Happy day best wishes!


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Power to the Pubis!

..accepting the fullness of feminity along with our strength!

On Kathryn Budig, Toesox, Lululemon and the Powerful Female Pelvis.

Click here to read more at Elephant.

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Yoga Journal is a Chronicle of the “Yoga Scene”, including Nakedness…

I came across this response from the Editor in Chief of Yoga Journal, Kaitlin Quistgaard, to the concerns generated by Judith Hanson Lasater’s letter that was published in the September 2010 issue. Here is a small excerpt:

“Perhaps the biggest difference between the magazine Judith founded and the one I edit today is that while Yoga Journal continues to be a source of instruction and insight on yogic practices, it is now also a chronicle of the ever-evolving yoga scene–a scene that didn’t exist 35 years ago and one that some old-time practitioners would, quite frankly, find un-yogic.”

(The bold words are in the source post…)

Yes, it’s easy to see that the magazine has evolved, and so has yoga, but to place in bold text the opinion that it is only “some old-time practitioners” that find parts of the “ever-evolving yoga scene” questionable really minimizes the option of critical thinking. If I’m reading this right, it’s just the “old” people who feel this way so it doesn’t matter to the magazine so much because Yoga Journal is a chronicle of what is happening: an unseeing filter for whatever is going on in yoga in our culture right now. Well thanks for clarifying that for me, Ms. Quistgaard, I now understand better how to look at this magazine.

And I guess since it’s just “old” thinking, and I don’t want to feel ashamed for not being of the latest, hottest opinion of yoga I’ll just clam up since these other opinions are apparently no longer relevant.

I think that ideals, choices and responsibility are important when publishing about a subject I care about like yoga. But she also points out:

“It’s a messy time to be in the business of covering yoga. Some yoga publications that offered a purist’s view of the practice are no longer in print, while “workout yoga” is popular on the newsstand. Yoga Journal remains devoted to bringing a full spectrum of teachings to a wide audience, and it does so while walking the age-old line of art and commerce.”

I find this response somewhat dispiriting, or is it sobering? Have I been drunk with idealism? Is our culture so far gone that the only way we can get peoples attention is by showing them a flashy naked (or almost Naked) idealized form?

...nothing falls but into life.

Perfection: Men of

dreams. You came to disappoint.

Painful lessons learned.

Imperfection: Hope.

Dreams shine. Heart yearns. Door opens...

Unknowing and free.

Seeing life. Fallen

tree enchants. Struggle appears

worthy now. Love speaks.

Love: Have you entered

me as a ghost of my own

longing? (Drunk with it.)

How to begin when

the fallen tree looks dead? See

the sparkles. Believe.

* Title of this post comes from a poem by Wendell Berry *

Some blogs I've enjoyed this week.

Nikki Chau wrote about something that was redolent of Things That Jerk with Your Emotions. The post is called:
Don't Bite the Hook: A Lesson in Working with Anger
It includes a reference to my recent popular post at Elephant.

Carrie writes an interesting blog, shining light on disabilities to help and inspire people. She also posts interviews with high-profile yoginis like Natasha Rizopoulos and Seane Corn.

The Men's Section

I came across some interesting material about men this week:

Men's Yoga

Men's Food

Men's Sex



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Slim, Sexy Yogini + Car, and what the heck are we sayin’...

What’s good about this Nissan car ad with Tara Stiles is that it communicates about a car that has the potential to cause less harm to the environment, and it gets yoga to the eyes of a mainstream audience. But it makes mistakes in message, too.

Click here to read more at Elephant...