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If You Try To Be Everyone’s Teacher, You Will Fail.

It’s taken me many years and an equal amount of work on my ego, but I finally have the lesson that we are not going to be everyone’s teacher. It’s a hard lesson. When we first step out of Yoga Teacher...

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There Comes a Time When We Must Choose. That is Yoga.

A turtle led me to yoga.   Of course, I didn’t yet know it. I was just ten years old and becoming a yogi was about the furthest thing from my mind. But even though I had little say in matters...

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What To Wear to a Yoga Conference, Part Two.

It’s September, which means I’m thinking about “What to wear to a yoga conference,” and that happened to be the most hated blog I ever wrote for the Elephant Journal. Last year after receiving personal...

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Brad Pitt, Listen Up: 50 Things to Love about Being 50.

While being 50 is not exactly the new 30, it isn’t all bad news.  In fact, I kind of like it. Being 50 means I fail more, flail more and generally worry about the outcome less. I take more risks and...

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Hello? Lululemon is Finally Answering Calls.

Hide This! So at last Lululemon has decided to get into the conversation regarding the company’s very unflattering and unyogic behavior and I for one am glad to see it. Recently they participated in a...

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Why Yoga is a Broke-A** Business

The Yogi Muse This month the famed New York yoga studio, Virayoga, goes out of business because its owner, Yoga Superstar Elena Brower, could not make it work financially. A moment of silence please....

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What Does Yoga Pay? And What Does Love Got to do With it?

Hmmm. “Life is not a problem to be solved,” wrote Kierkegaard, “But a reality to be experienced.” So it may not be a surprise that the broke-ass business of yoga is not yet fixed. It may not even be a...

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Here Comes the Moon, and a Yoga Sex Cult

Whenever there is a celestial thing happening, like a solstice or an equinox, I am reminded of the time when I was in a Wiccan Yoga Sex Cult and didn’t know it. You might ask, how can you possibly be...

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To be a Better Yogi, Start Here. By Michelle Marchildon

The other day I was at my local coffee shop and ordered my usual skinny decaf, also known as a “Why Bother,” when the very helpful barista said to me, “Is that yogic?” The week before I came in and...

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And Now For Something Completely Different: Reality!

  Are we working out? Or are we working in? When I was asked what I’d like to see in a yoga magazine, I said without hesitation: Reality. I thought it might be time for something completely different...

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