Why Do Yoga

The Suburban Redux owes it existence to the Lavender Haze, its spiritual sister studio from the city. As the owners of the Lavender Hazes get married and heads to the suburbs, they adapt the Lavender Haze in this new environment. This essentially means adding a New Age element to it and tossing out the cute stuff animals and Buddhas. There will still be the same lavender walls, ceilings and floors, but in place of the stuffed animals, you will find lavender crystals. The furry stuffed Buddha will now be a huge lavender plastic Buddhas sitting prominently on kind of a New Age dais. There ... Read Full Story

The Name Brand studio is the spiritual home of the Yoga Star. These are temple like environments that will have posters and sayings of the Yoga Star on the walls along with their overpriced classes. Though the size and interior style of this Yoga studio are not all that impressive or memorable, they nonetheless shine in the large and professionally designed area housing their Yoga shop. There you will find postcards, framed pictures, CDs, DVDs, books about or written by the Yoga Star. In addition, the Yoga shop does a brisk business with their autographed trading cards, stupas containing bits of hair or fingernail ... Read Full Story

The MeditationYoga clock does nothing but sits there and just is. With the perennial message of, "Be here now", it is designed to gentle remind you of what you are suppose to be doing during your meditation session instead of thinking how long you have been sitting there. As the MeditationYoga Clock has no moving parts, it is guaranteed for several lifetimes. Read Full Story

The MeditationYoga clock does nothing but sits there and just is. With the perennial message of, “Be here now”, it is designed to gentle remind you of what you are suppose to be doing during your meditation session instead of thinking how long you have been sitting there. As the MeditationYoga Clock has no moving parts, it is guaranteed for several lifetimes. Read Full Story

Breathing Space: Twelve Lessons for the Modern Woman by Katrina Repka and Alan Finger Book Review: A Yogis, relaxation experts and Buddhists all extol the virtues of breath for stress relief and claim breath work unlocks health-compromising stress patterns. I've never been able to experience the power of breath, as they say. I take a few breaths and then do feel calmer, sometimes even more centered but to make a daily habit of breathing deeply never appealed to me. Quite frequently, I forget to take the time to breathe deeply. The 2009 book, " Breathing Space: Twelve Lessons for the Modern Woman" by yoga ... Read Full Story