Ethersnap
Interests:
Current events, yoga, economics, food, travel, and all things cute.
Interests:
Current events, yoga, economics, food, travel, and all things cute.
(via NYMag.com - Karma Crash)
The rise and spectacular fall of John Friend.
(via Yoga-for-Trophy-Wives Fitness Fad That’s Alienating Discipline Devotees | Business | Vanity Fair)
Sonia Jones, lithe blonde wife of hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, has partnered with the family of the late Ashtanga-yoga master Krishna Pattabhi Jois to launch a chain of yoga studios and boutiques. That’s got many of Jois’s devotees in a distinctly un-yogic twist.
When finance and yoga collide. Sorta.
(via New York Welcomes Yoga Asana Championships - NYTimes.com)
This is just too weird.
This is why we can’t do yoga.
According to Black, a number of factors have converged to heighten the risk of practicing yoga. The biggest is the demographic shift in those who study it. Indian practitioners of yoga typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life, and yoga poses, or asanas, were an outgrowth of these postures. Now urbanites who sit in chairs all day walk into a studio a couple of times a week and strain to twist themselves into ever-more-difficult postures despite their lack of flexibility and other physical problems. Many come to yoga as a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or for rehabilitation for injuries. But yoga’s exploding popularity — the number of Americans doing yoga has risen from about 4 million in 2001 to what some estimate to be as many as 20 million in 2011 — means that there is now an abundance of studios where many teachers lack the deeper training necessary to recognize when students are headed toward injury.
Surya Namaskar with friend (by YogaHolistic)
Cats! Yoga! I love it!
