Gobal Mala Boston…If you loooooveeee Sun Salutes

If you’re down with doing 108 Sun Salutes, this might be an for you.  In 2007, Shiva Rea helped start this worldwide yoga event to help raise consciousness for peace and the key environmental issue of global warming.
On Sunday, September 21st on the Boston Common and at the Cyclorama, the Boston area yoga community will [...]

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To Om or not to Om?

Om is more than a word – it is an intonation, like music or vibration.  It is made up of three Sanskrit letters, essentially “A” – “U” – “M”.  It is often said that the sound of Om contains in it all other sounds. In the Upanishads Om is considered to be an all-encompassing mystical [...]

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Stress relief for deadlier fighting

AP Photo/Channi Anand
NPR, Morning Edition, June 04, 2008 – India’s army conducted a three-month study in which soldiers did more yoga poses than traditional exercise. The idea was that the stress-relieving practice could be a way to train deadlier fighters. Researchers found that fighters had steadier hands and stronger grips than peers who stuck to [...]

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East Meets West…a documentary

This is somewhat unrelated to yoga- but then again, it all comes back to the mat, no? I saw a trailer for this documentary – The Dhamma Brothers, East Meets West in the Deep South – while I was in Newton, Mass and I haven’t gotten it out of my head. Here’s the [...]

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