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Here’s the cover of the soon to be released book whose author recently set the yoga community’s tail on fire with his New York Time’s article, ”How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.”
While I’ll reserve my response until I read the book, I thought I’d share Leslie Kaminoff’s video response to the article:
Leslie Kaminoff is the author of Yoga Anatomy, 2nd Edition.
Shiva Rea addresses the Speakeasy attendees in Squaw Valley (2011) regarding Yoga Energy Activism: how we can regenerate our energy linking our heart, body, home and ecology.
Shiva Rea, M.A. is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, global adventurer and leading innovator in the evolution of prana flow yoga, transformational vinyasa flow integrating the tantric bhakti roots of yoga, Krishnamacharya’s teachings and a universal, quantum approach to the body. Shiva is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of prana flow out in the world. Shiva is the creator of Prana Flow Yoga, Yogadventure Retreats, Yoga Trance Dance for Life, Moving Activism for 1,008,000 Trees, the worldwide Global Mala Project, Yogini Conferences and E2: The Evolutionary Edge Tour. She writes for Yoga Journal, Yoga Plus Joyful Living, is the author of award-winning CD’s and DVD’s, and contributor to many publications and features.
For more information on Shiva Rea and her teaching schedule, please visit: http://shivarea.com/
For more information on the Global Mala Project, please visit: http://yogamonth.org/globalmala/
I don’t own a single piece of Lululemon clothing (not out of principle or anything like that…not really sure why…), but I do enjoy a little bit of yoga humor…
HAPPY NEW YEAR and thanks for making 2011 Daily Cup of Yoga’s most amazing year ever!
The ancient tradition of tantra yoga is the ultimate science of fulfillment. Illuminating both the path of self-knowledge and the path of becoming the person you were meant to be, the teachings provide a roadmap to uncover your soul’s call to greatness and to unlock your capacity to achieve it. In this lecture Rod discusses his new book, The Four Desires and outlines the keys to fulfilling your worldly and spiritual potential, achieving your ultimate destiny, the science of transforming thought into form, and the keys to finding and fulfilling your dharma.
Rod Stryker is the founder of ParaYoga and widely considered one of the country’s leading yoga and meditation teachers. He has taught yoga for nearly 30 years and leads retreats, workshops, and trainings worldwide.
For more info please visit: www.rodstryker.com.
Seane Corn shares a candid heart-to-heart with the SPEAKEASY audience assembled in Stratton, VT in June of 2011, where she spoke of her life as a yogi, from just discovering yoga, to where her heart has led her to today… as a seeker, student, teacher and ultimately, a servant. Hear first-hand about her work on and off the mat, her projects, the integration of the yoga practice- into the mystery of life, and how listening to intuition and choosing to give her life over to Spirit has rewarded her with the richest and most joyful gifts ever imagined.
Seane Corn is an internationally renowned Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher and spiritual activist. Featured in commercials, magazines and named the “National Yoga Ambassador” for YouthAIDS in 2005, Seane now utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her co-founded organization Off the Mat Into the World®. Seane has spent time in India, Cambodia and Africa working with prostitutes and street children, teaching yoga, providing support for child labor and educating people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Seane is also co-founder of the Seva Challenge Humanitarian Tours, encouraging yoga teachers to get involved in fund and awareness raising efforts across the globe. Her award winning DVD’s are available through Gaiam and Yoga Journal, and most recently “Detox Flow Yoga” from Sounds True.
Learn more about Seane at http://www.seanecorn.com/.
You can explore her work with Off The Mat Into The World at http://www.offthematintotheworld.org/.
“Tiny Buddha” founder, Lori Deschene, explores how social media can either help or hinder us in forming meaningful, authentic connections.
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha, a community blog that publishes tips and stories about letting go of pain and embracing happiness. In addition to sharing her own struggles and insights and encouraging others to do the same, she also offers daily wisdom quotes through @tinybuddha on Twitter and the Tiny Buddha Facebook page. In an increasingly disconnected, information-overloaded world, Tiny Buddha has emerged as a place for authentic connection—where everyone has the same authority to share what they’ve learned and how they apply it. With nearly 1 million views per month, Tiny Buddha is quickly growing into one of the most popular inspirational sites on the web.
You can discover more at http://tinybuddha.com/ and follow her at @tinybuddha.
Check out Clara’s website at http://www.pixieyoga.net/
Music by Amrita at http://www.amritamusic.net/
How can we can bring light – to ourselves and others – through our practice, our work, our interactions? By articulating and loving the darkest aspects of ourselves. Elena shares her experience of her own discoveries of light, via the dark knots of fear that dim our light and rob us of precious energy. Elena shares her studies and ways in which we can all articulate and literally love what we’d rather hide, thereby bringing light to every realm of your life.
Founder and co-owner of Virayoga, and Jonah’s mama, Elena’s been teaching for 14+ years. She is respected and beloved globally for her powerful teaching, compelling students to integrate yoga practice into the realities of daily life. Elena is also the quintessential multi-hypehnate: teacher, designer, coach, journalist, producer, writer and entrepreneur. From the Museum of Modern Art to the Great Lawn at Central Park, from the playa at Burning Man to the lawn at the Eiffel Tower, Elena is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time. She’s been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, the Element Yoga for Beginners DVD series, FitYoga, ABC News, NBC News, and is one of the original teachers on Yogaglo.
Along with her own Art of Attention writing, Elena contributes to the Huffington Post and Kris Carr’s CrazySexyLife. She’s also the voice of Deepak Chopra’s breakthrough video game project, LEELA, which blends meditation practice with game play. As the Executive Producer of On Meditation, she is curating a docuseries of short films about the relevance of meditation and its benefits, to be released in 2012. Elena’s recently developed an essential oil blend called GIVE that proudly benefits her favorite global cause, Women for Women International; locally, she supports Akasha Project and Bent on Learning.
To learn more about Elena, please visit http://www.artofattention.com/
To check out her teaching schedule, please visit http://virayoga.com/
John Friend shares the essential principles of Shiva-Shakti Tantra, which serves as the philosophical basis of Anusara yoga. John’s inspirational talk presents ways to synthesize the polar, complementary energies of the Universe in our daily lives to lead us into the Freedom of our hearts.
John shared this talk with the attendees of Wanderlust Festival in Stratton, VT in June of 2011.
John Friend is the founder of Anusara® yoga and is currently one of the most influential yoga teachers in the world. He was introduced to yoga in 1967, and first began regular studies and practice at age 13. A yoga teacher for 30 years, John has taught more than 700 workshops in over 20 countries within the US, Canada, Central America, UK, Europe, South America, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In 1997, he founded Anusara yoga, a school of hatha yoga that blends a life-affirming Shiva-Shakti Tantric philosophy with Universal Principles of Alignment™.
You can learn more about John, his schedule, and Anusara Yoga at www.anusara.com.
…wouldn’t be any fun if we couldn’t make a few jokes about it…
Pure entertainment from beginning to end.
Definitely can’t accuse these guys of lacking creative flair.
Perhaps you’re inspired to drop a last minute quote in the Manduka eKO Lite yoga mat giveaway.
Only 24 hours until we announce the winner. Thanks for all the great quotes!
“I wish you peace and blessings, namaste…”
