I just spent the weekend at the Yoga Journal conference in NYC. All I can really say is, wow. I am full of mental information and physical transformation and spiritual vibration. I wanted to share especially about Patricia Walden’s class, “Cultivating a Fierce Heart and Willpower.” An Iyengar teacher who has been studying yoga since…

We just got the word about the death of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois at the age of 94. Jois founded Ashtanga yoga, and was a major force in bringing yoga to the West. His teacher, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya transmitted an ancient lineage of yoga teachings through Jois. This is no doubt a sad day for Guruji’s…

Recently I had the pleasure of taking a yoga workshop with Mariel Hemingway and her good friend Sara Ivanhoe. It was an intense afternoon, full of flowing asana with a specific focus on Patanjali’s first yoga sutra — Atha Yoganusasam (NOW is the Practice of Yoga).  In that spirit of now, we were encouraged to…

By Alana B. Elias Kornfeld In a previous Fresh Living post, Valerie mentioned the famous foot “floint” from her yoga class with Aarona Pichinson, a longtime yogi friend of mine. As she wrote, it’s neither flex nor point, but floint. As her yoga teacher colleague at Beliefnet (who she referenced in her post), I am…

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