Yoga Workshop, a Boulder, Colorado yoga studio fpimded by Ashtanga Yoga teacher Richard Freeman, has been named in a lawsuit brought on by a former student who claims he was injured during an unwanted adjustment he received at the studio. According to the lawsuit, the instructor’s “unsolicited physical manipulation” (which occurred in December of 2008) caused injuries that resulted in a permanent disability, reported the The Daily Camera . The lawsuit asserts that the studio should be held responsible for promoting teachers who alter clients’ yoga positions without permission — thus creating hazardous conditions. Do you agree or disagree? UPDATE: For more coverage check out ElephantJournal.com .
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Man Sues Studio over Unwanted Adjustment
Dienstag, 3. November 2009Class Gives New Meaning to Corpse Pose
Donnerstag, 27. August 2009If you live or work in a city, you know how difficult it can be to find a moment of quiet. Between the buses, sirens, and people chattering it can seem like an impossible feat to even make a phone call, much less stop for a sun salute or meditation break. City noise is one of the reasons behind a new yoga class held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. “There’s very little quiet place left in the city,” class organizer Rick Castro told CBS news. “This is a place where you really can just come and just be with yourself and meditate.” (Please watch the video by clicking here .) “The spirits are with us,” he added later. “They come through us.” The class costs $20 and will take place every Tuesday at 7 pm. What do you think? Does this align with the yoga philsophy on death and dying? Or is it creepy?
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Are You in the Closet?
Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009In the yoga community there’s an unspoken “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule when it comes to being a vegetarian, wrote vinyasa teacher and author Sadie Nardini in a recent blog post . “Many of the most famous teachers are not only vegetarian, but think you should be too, or you’re not ‘as yogic’ as they are. I know … they’ve told me so in person. To me, that’s not spiritual…that’s judgment, pure and simple,” wrote Nardini, who owns a studio and teaches in New York . “People hide their passion for sushi or burning desire for a big juicy steak from their instructors, and eyes narrow when a student dares to mention it in polite company.” The debate on vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-harming) will probably go on forever, but no matter where you stand on the subject you’ve got to admit that neither judging others or hiding your own desires seems to fit in very well with yoga philosphy. What do you think? If you’re a vegetarian, do you think non-vegetarians are non-yogic? If you’re not a vegetarian, do you avoid eating meat in front of your yoga friends?
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Are You in the Closet?