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It's 11:40am. A perfect summer's day. Not too much humidity. The streets are alive with people. I'm in a taxi, trying to get through New York City...
It's 11:40am. A perfect summer's day. Not too much humidity. The streets are alive with people. I'm in a taxi, trying to get through New York City...
Steve Ross and Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.17.2008 | Living
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the one who serves nor the served, but all pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before...
Simran Sethi | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green
Life Cycle is a series of posts that takes a closer look at the stuff we use and love. It's the end of class. You're breathing deeply, surrenderi...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
In my own experience as a 36 year-old breast cancer patient and now six-year survivor, yoga was the means by which I began the process of re-connecting with my body.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 08.04.2008 | Living
As a teen, I first learned yoga from the classic Yoga in 28 Days, which 35 years after its original publication, is still in print. After a decade of ...
Yoga Journal | Alisa Bauman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living
When it came to the fitness benefits yoga can or can't provide, yoga teacher John Schumacher had heard it all. A student of B. K. S. Iyengar for 20 ye...
Dealbreaker | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
In an attempt to stop throwing phones and temper tantrums over the lousy markets, a growing number of financiers are taking up yoga to "take a step ba...
StarTribune.com | M.K. Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living
Sure, you could see a movie or enjoy a mojito at a rooftop hot spot. You could catch a free concert or stroll along one of our lovely lakes. Or you c...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 07.21.2008 | Living
Forget brushing up on politics, if you want to make a hit at a cocktail party these days, you need to get with the yogi program. By "cocktail party," I mean an early-evening gathering of slender, well-muscled women.
Yoga Journal | Tim Noworyta | Posted 07.21.2008 | Living
Here are some ways to get more out of the yoga classes you attend: DO arrive early. Getting to class about 10 minutes early can help you settle in an...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
You will never guess where I am right now. I'm not even sure I believe it. I am on the 6:51 train heading back to NYC, having just left a yoga retrea...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
Even yogis have their moments: We scream at our kids. We tell a fib here or there. We might choose to indulge in a trashy magazine rather than rereading the Bhagavad Gita.
Russell Simmons | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Obama's spiritual concern underlies a deep compassion and toughness that comes from being in touch with and at ease with himself. This is what mindfulness is all about. It makes you strong in every way.
nytimes.com | Andy Newman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
On the last Tuesday in June, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health was a New Age encyclopedia come to life. A roomful of seekers pursued "Total Imme...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living
Yesterday, my mom called to tell me about this book she was reading: The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer. Since these days, most of my reading is done ...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living
If Michelle truly wants to renegotiate her relationship with the American voter, the changes are going to have to come from within.
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living
Saturday in NYC and it's hazy, hot, and humid -- a perfect early afternoon for laying by the pool or sitting in some air-conditioning enjoying a good ...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
So, you want to practice yoga. You'd like a nice "yoga butt," maybe a set of rock hard "yoga abs," and if you can somehow develop a calmer mind in th...
Prevention | Marianne McGinnis | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
This article was originally published in Prevention. Eight years ago, when Sharon Gothard Weisman turned 40, backaches, dark undereye circles, forget...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living
So, I don't know if you've heard but there's this movie coming out today, called Sex And The City, and it's, like, about four women, but really just o...
The New York Times | JOELLE HANN | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living
Part of the problem, say many teachers and practitioners, is a scarcity of instructors capable of guiding students into a more-advanced practice. Thes...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
My little time out for yoga recently made me wonder if it isn't time for the candidates and all of us Democrats to find our center and focus on the thing that matters most -- US!
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living
- Elderly women showed measurable improvements in their walking speed and balance after a nine-week yoga program -- and they gained a centimeter in he...
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 03.11.2008 | Living
Let's proclaim this National Stress Reduction Week. I say, let's not expect too much of ourselves for a few days.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living
When I first started writing this column, and therefore telling people that I was on a Spiritual Journey, the first thing out of everyone's mouth was,...
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic golden boy Michael...
Rachel Maddow will replace Dan Abrams as host of the 9PM hour on MSNBC, the New...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
All hail the comeback of Christie Brinkley, Cover Girl. The former supermodel graces...
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Simon Sinek | Posted 08.19.2008 | Living