This summer, I’m indulging in what I like to call “the hot yoga experiment.” I’ve never taken hot yoga on a regular basis before, but after I examined the schedules from a half dozen or so local yoga studios and triangulated it with the hours my kids are in camp and/or take naps, it turned [...]

One of the most interesting things about starting to do yoga is that you become very aware of your body’s asymmetries. This often becomes very apparent in cow face pose, where most people have a much easier time binding the hands behind their backs on one side than the other. When these types of imbalances [...]

I’ve heard a couple of people say that when March 1st rolls around, that means it’s spring, no matter what the weatherman might say about snow flurries. Apparently, March 1st is when people realize that they will soon be stripping off the winter layers and exposing their pale flesh to the world again. Which, in [...]

While the 2010 Winter Olympics are getting underway in Vancouver, the 2010 U.S. Yoga Asana Championship is also taking place this weekend in sunny Los Angeles. Though many balk at the idea of competitive yoga (including a campaign to include yoga in future Olympic Games), it has a long established history in India. Rajashree Choudhury, [...]

The yoga blogosphere and twitterverse were a-chatter today over this article in the New York Times: When Chocolate and Chakras Collide. The article describes a yoga/foodie event where people pay to have a gourmet dinner after a yoga class, and then segues into a discussion of various yoga teachers takes on what yogis should and [...]