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Recommitting to Your Yoga Practice

Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009

I have a confession: I have been avoiding my yoga practice lately. After being sidelined for a few weeks by holiday travel, illness, and a pesky hamstring injury, I haven’t been able to get myself back on my mat. Now, I know in my head that the minute the asanas start flowing I’ll feel stronger and calmer and more centered — more me. My body, however, is rebelling. It seems to think its much nicer to sit on my couch and channel surf instead. But then I realized: This is the perfect time to recommit myself to my yoga practice. It’s the start of a new year — a new decade even — and I know this one will be the best one yet. As a student, as a teacher, we sometimes need these opportunities of renewal to remind ourselves what is most important to us. We are given the opportunity to commit and recommit to these things in a thoughtful and meaningful way. For me, my yoga practice will be a key focus to work back into my routine in the new year. What will it be for you?

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Do Plants Have Feelings, Too?

Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009

If your choice to be vegetarian or vegan has anything to do with the yogic principle of ahimsa , or non-harming, you probably think you’re doing less harm to living things and the environment by choosing to eat plants instead of animals. But how often do you consider the harm you’re doing to the plants–also living beings–when you eat your vegetables? “Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl,” writes Natalie Angier in a recent NYTimes article about the ways plants fight off their predators. For example, plant scientists have found that plants release chemicals to attract large predatory insects in hopes that they will eat the smaller insects that prey on the plant. It’s a compelling argument. Maybe plants really do want to live, but we have to eat something to survive. Is eating plants the lesser of two evils? Or are we doing harm either way?

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Silly Yoga Holiday Gifts

Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009

If you’re looking for serious holiday gift ideas for yoga practitioners you won’t be interested in this blog post. (See “Gifts of Love” in our December issue, or click here .) The following gifts are my favorite silly yoga holiday gifts. They really have very little to do with the practice of yoga, but they’re all cute and will put a smile on anyone’s face. For example, these gingerbread men are awesome! I think part of what makes them so adorable is how wrong the alignment is. (Check out that Warrior I Pose.) To buy go here . This is a magnetic pad of paper that actually hangs on my refrigerator. I’ve been making grocery lists, leaving notes to my husband, and using it as scratch paper for the last two years. It was a holiday gift from my mother-in-law two years ago. I still think it’s funny–in a really ironic sort of way. To get one for the yogi you love, go here . Since the holidays fall so close to New Year’s, a calendar is always a popular gift. Sure, you could go for a beautiful, awe-inspiring YJ calendar . Or you could get the pet lovers’ version. There’s one for cat people … … and dog people ! Can you top these? Please tell us all about the funniest or silliest yoga gift you’ve ever seen.  

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