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No Ass-Kicking, Please.

Posted in About Yoga, Exercise, Fitness, Health, Philosophy, Religion, Spirtuality, Uncategorized, Yoga, Yoga Poses (or Asana), tagged , , , , on January 13, 2011 | 22 Comments »

This past summer, I found myself in a social situation with another yoga teacher. Someone at our table was asking her about her classes, and she was testifying to their toughness: “Come to my classes and I’ll kick your ass,” she said. She seems like a nice person, and so I chalked her response up [...]

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About Yoga and Weight

Posted in About Yoga, Exercise, Fitness, Health, Philosophy, Yoga, Yoga Poses (or Asana), tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I don’t think anyone is going to argue with what I’m about to say: Americans are obsessed with transformation. This may be rooted in the Protestant beginnings of the nation, or it may be deeper in the human psyche. But it seems that now, more than at any other point in time, we are culturally [...]

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Thank you, Jerry Falwell!

Posted in About Yoga, Philosophy, Spirtuality, Uncategorized, Yoga, tagged , on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This week, I’ve found myself considering the recent deaths of two men. One of them — Joseph Rattigan — a former senator and justice from Northern California, a liberal, educated, and erudite jurist who championed the causes of many disenfranchised groups, including minorities, the elderly, and the disabled. An old friend to our family, we [...]

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Dogs: Upward, downward, and otherwise

Posted in About Yoga, Spirtuality, Yoga, Yoga Poses (or Asana), tagged , , , on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

People and dogs have cohabitated for many years. One group of researchers at UCLA thinks that dogs may have been domesticated as far back as 100,000 years ago. So what does living with dogs teach us?

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