I'm tired. I just spent a week leading a retreat with 22 women, and although I mostly love what I do, I found myself this week understanding, for the first time really, what it means to be emotionally exhausted. I'm awake and filled with gratitude, but I'm drained. How long can one person wear so many hats? Yoga…
Lululemon, that store that gives you the opportunity to pay upwards of $90 to have strangers see your asscrack, is branching out into new asscrack demographics with vary different potentials for asscrack tragedy: men, and children.
Women make up slightly less than half of the NFL's fanbase. They're going to college in larger numbers than men. They're the Senators grabbing the legislative branch by the collar and dragging the country away from fiscal precipice. And yet! it's still weird for us when we try to use the weight room at a new gym. When…
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A lily white yoga studio in idyllic Santa Barbara, California recently held a "Ghetto Fabulous" yoga class. In preparation, students were instructed to wear cornrows, snapback caps and heavy lipliner along with their lululemon leggings. Who knew gang signs could be so cute?! The invite promised to provide "various…
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Respira, respira, respira. Perfetto.
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An ex-employee and two former students recently accused Bikram Yoga founder Bikram Choudhury of a variety of not-so-enlightening practices including rape, sexual harassment, and racism. According to a woman who trained with the cultish guru in Los Angeles, Choudhury doesn't limit his repulsive behavior to his close…
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Bikram Choudhury, the man who founded the now-ubiquitous and wildly trendy Bikram Yoga practice, is now facing allegations of rape, sexual harassment, racism, and homophobia from a former employee. This is the third accusation against the yoga guru: in May, IBT reported that he was accused of rape by two of his…
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Lululemon, like many major retailers before them, likes to pretend that a size 4 is the size of the average woman in the United States. Despite much evidence to the contrary, they cater their overpriced wares to an America that doesn't exist, and have no desire to change their dumb-ass ways. Therefore, I meant what I…
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Author and artist MariNaomi sketches out the thoughts of anyone who has ever done downward dog or downward doggie style. (Sorry for "downward doggie style" — I have no idea what any sex positions are called.) (Except for the "Spaghetti noodle man", and I can say no more about that.)
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Like deep-cleaning your bathroom or reading Middlemarch, running is one of those things you always mean to be darn good at once you get around to it.
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A group of parents in Encinitas, CA are outraged that a local school is teaching the cult of yoga to their impressionable youth. Worried that their kids will forget all about the great Jesus Christ and start following that slut Ganesha down the path of temptation to get away from their
Christian
off-spring.…
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Well, kind-of, it is a cat after all! Don't be so damn hard on the cat, let's see your damn sun salutations! Namaste, my friends.
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Most of the myths concerning what women can't do during their periods — hang out around bears, swim, get pregnant, share a tent with menfolk — are easily debunked. But despite all of the fun-loving, white yoga pants-wearing gals jumping around in tampon commercials, no one seems to know whether it's actually safe to…
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For a while, we thought that 91-year-old Bernice Bates of Florida was the world's oldest yoga instructor, but it turns out the Guinness Book of World Records has just given 93-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch the official title. She's been teaching yoga for 61 years, and it has kept her in amazing shape. She loves doing it,…
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You might remember WCW star Diamond Dallas Page from such hits as the "Self High Five" and "suing Jay-Z for doing a thing with his hands in a certain way," but did you know that he also invented yoga???
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Stock photography is one of my favorite things about the internet. It's so corny and mysterious and strangely telling—like this weird mirror universe where everyone wears the same camisole and eats yogurt all day with confused white babies. It's like a window into Heaven for the most boring person in the world.
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Arthur Boorman is a disabled veteran of the Gulf War who, after injuring his back as a paratrooper, was told by doctors that he would never again walk without crutches. Arthur's disability led to a substantial weight gain and subsequent depression, neither of which he was able to fight with exercise until he contacted …
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Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us.
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Twenty-eight-year-old Aspen musician Vaughn Barnett was facing additional prison time for possessing 11 pounds of marijuana (which he said was "all trim from a legal marijuana grow in California"), but a judge let him off with 30 days and probation after he turned his life around with yoga. His lawyer says the jailhouse…
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There's a big scandal brewing in the yoga world. (That's a world, right?) It centers around John Friend, creator of the popular practice of Anusara yoga. It turns out that behind the sunny facade promising fulfillment and happiness through yoga, there was some pretty dark shit happening. But now his sexual escapades…
