Life Lose life

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/its-yoga-for-dudes-one-busy-mans-guide-to-broga-8709917.html

Life in Shoreditch has shut down and there are rumours floating around that the owners have scammed people of their cash for their own benefit. They are said to have been trying to finance a restaurant with clients' membership money and people are still trying to get their money back, while the owners look for more investors.
We went onto their facebook page to find out more and the comments posted show a rather tainted story, with some deeply regretting the closure and others convinced that this is their bad karma. Either way, this scandal is one of many in London and indicates the fragmented state of the yoga world at large. Where are the yogic principles that we hold so dear? Is London distorting their origin in an attempt to make a buck?

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https://www.facebook.com/lifeshoreditch

London Calling Naked yoga

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/naked-yoga-the-bare-truth--its-already-big-in-the-us-and-has-now-landed-here-9259879.html

Redefining Yoga

 


This article is written by a yogic guinea pig who went from 0-60 in his take-up of ancient yogic practices. What he learns along the way is fascinating and reveals something of the evolution that yoga has experienced.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-rosen/going-to-the-mat-confessi_b_186332.html

Living Yogic Proof

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/04/09/yoga-saved-my-career-how-this-founders-daily-practice-influenced-a-1-6-billion-acquisition/#./?&_suid=1398348036204038315112576228055

This businessman shows how you can stay calm and focused under pressure and uses age-old yogic techniques to get there. Funnily enough, if there is one thing he would toss out of the window, it would be the asana practice, not the meditation

Forever young - the real reason for yoga

 

Yoga can help you stay forever young like Ryan Giggs

Sports yoga keeps Ryan Giggs and other Premier League stars fit and flexible. Sarah Ramsden, a yoga instructor for Manchester United and Manchester City, tells Mark Bailey how it can help you too

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/10615428/Yoga-can-help-you-stay-forever-young-like-Ryan-Giggs.html

Nairobi

Nairobi, Kenya - Yoga has grown increasingly popular among the poorest neighbourhoods in the capital thanks to Paige Elenson and her partner Baron Baptiste, two American yoga teachers who established the not-for-profit organisation Africa Yoga Project in 2007.
Their goal was to create job opportunities and empower youth in impoverished areas of Nairobi. The two teachers raised $10,000 to found the organisation and train 40 Kenyan yoga instructors. Today, 72 instructors are working in poor areas of Kenya, including at schools and prisons.
Margaret Njeri is one of the teachers. She was an acrobat before starting the yoga-training programme. The young mother says earning a living as an acrobat was not easy. She sometimes even had to turn to petty crime to survive. She is now paid $100 a month to teach five classes a week in prisons, schools and other parts of the city. The rest of the time, Njeri teaches private classes to round up her salary. Thanks to yoga, she is now able to support herself and her one-year-old daughter.
Instructor Samson Muhalia, 53, says yoga has a positive impact on people. "What I really like in yoga is that it brings people together and teaches them how live together. It makes people share and discuss."

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/04/pictures-yoga-bends-trends-kenya-20144494348396640.html

Enlighten up!

 

 

Featuring: B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, Norman Allen, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Gurmukh, Dharma Mittra, Cyndi Lee, Alan Finger, Rodney Yee, Beryl Bender Birch, Shyamdas, Diamond Dallas Page and many more!

A filmmaker is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone. Her plan: select a subject, immerse him in yoga and follow him until he finds a practice that transforms him. Her subject: Nick Rosen a skeptical, 29 year-old journalist living in New York City. Before he can say OM, Nick finds himself twisted up like a pretzel surrounded by celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks and entrepreneurs. The more he investigates yoga the more contradictions he discovers, straying further from Kate's plan. They circle the globe talking to mystics, gurus, mad men and saints searching for the true meaning of yoga, encountering things they never could have imagined. They don't find the answers to their questions, they find much more. www.enlightenupthefilm.com

the best thing ever written about yoga

i think this might be the best thing ever written about yoga


http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/01/the-tyranny-of-the-yoga-industry-ruth-fowler/

sexual harrassment claims plague bikram

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/12/bikram-yoga-sexual-harassment-claims