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“What is appropriation? Who is appropriating? And what can you, as a pratitioner of yoga, actually do about it? Indian yoga teacher, Arundhati Baitmangalkar, tackles these questions and and provide 9 simple ways you can start appreciating rather than appropriating yoga, below!”

How We Can Work Together to Avoid Cultural Appropriation in Yoga Discover how you can appreciate yoga and its roots without appropriating the culture.

The article provides several options for donating to the COVID crisis in India.

There’s a COVID-19 Crisis in India—and the Yoga Community Is Nowhere to be Found Many love their chai tea and vinyasa but are silent about Indians dying.

“Teachers can get a free subscription to the ‘Calm’ ap.”

Teachers can get a free subscription to the Calm app—it usually costs $60 A great deal for the start of the school year!

“The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asana.” -B.k.s. Iyengar

Yoga Practice - Wednesday at 11am 🧘🏻‍♀️

Aw, poor dragon, just trying to find a little peace.

Dragons want audiobooks
Image by Sara Zimmerman

Ladies, enjoy your Sexy Self. Just stop Calling it Yoga.

"Ladies, enjoy your sexy self. Just stop calling it Yoga."

elephantjournal.com Do you ever see Catholic nuns posting images of themselves reciting Hail Mary’s on a Malibu beach wearing a thong? Has a Buddhist nun ever hashtagged her post

How to Make a Pinhole Camera Project | NASA/JPL Edu

Still planning your Solar Eclipse related events for Monday? Join me for a FREE beach yoga class from 8-9am on 6th street beach in Ocean City, NJ. Sun salutations and celestially inspired poses throughout :) More importantly, don't forget to stay safe when viewing the eclipse in the afternoon! Below are two links explaining how to make your own safe viewing devices (pinhole camera and cereal box viewer) straight from Nasa themselves. Arts and Crafts time anyone?:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/EclipseCerealBoxViewer.pdf

jpl.nasa.gov Learn how to make your very own pinhole camera to safely see a solar eclipse in action!

6 Things Our White Friends Can Do to Be Better Allies

To be a better ally

sojo.net Ask when you don’t know — but do the work first.

I am pleased to have the honor of teaching my first FREE beach yoga class of the year on July 3rd! :) The city of Ocean City offers free yoga classes from 8-9am every Monday throughout the summer. Join us for the kick off to a great holiday week! Located on the 6th street beach.

Not ALL Hips Need Opening: 3 Moves for Hip Stability

"Not all hips need opening"

yogajournal.com Learn why balancing strength and flexibility in the hips is so important.

Study Finds Yoga Can Help Back Pain, But Keep It Gentle, With These Poses

"Study finds that yoga can help back pain, but keep it gentle with these poses."

npr.org A new study finds that a yoga class designed specifically for lower back pain can be as effective as physical therapy in easing pain.

Yoga practitioners can be a bit enthusiastic, huh?:

6 Ways Spiritual Thinking Can Reinforce Oppression and Racism - Decolonizing Yoga

Sometimes we need to look at what we are calling "spirituality" and what it means in relation to the serious issues around us. This article makes some very good points.

decolonizingyoga.com There is a lurking problem happening within ‘spiritual’ thought and dialogue.

CBS Philly

Moonrise is at 5:20 pm on Monday evening. And when you’re out moon-gazing, Derrick Pitts suggests looking toward the southwestern sky to catch a view of both the planet Venus, which will appear as a very bright star, and the planet Mars which will have a rosey glow.

Inhale. Exhale.

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Donation class by my friend Maria. Please consider attending :) 

Tomorrow and the following Sunday, our good friend Maria from Grace and Glory Yoga will be leading a Yoga Community Class to raise money for MS!
The funds from the 12:15 Community Class on 10/9 and 10/16 will be donated to the National MS Society in support of our annual fundraiser The RIGHT NOTES, aka "Wine on a Mission".
Yoga has been beneficial for many people living with MS, and and we're sincerely grateful to the folks at Grace and Glory for helping us in our mission to find a cure.
All the benefits of practicing yoga, with the added bonus of helping to raise money for National MS Society. We hope to see you there! 😃🙌

"When Chuck Norris does yoga, the sun salutes HIM." 

Have a great weekend Buffalove. We hope your practice is as BA as you are 😘

"Doing yoga on this jagged rock in a dangerous location was so relaxing."

Doing yoga on this jagged rock in a dangerous location was so relaxing.

Photo by:
Brian Crawford Photography

Apologies for the short notice but, if you happen to catch this, I'll be teaching the "Sunday Special Yoga" class at the Ocean City Aquatic and Fitness Center tomorrow (Sunday Feb 28) from 9-10:30am and will have my husband as a special guest. He'll be playing live music for us :) Hope to see some of you there. 

Six Things I Don’t Say in Yoga Class Anymore

Six things to consider not saying in class anymore...

yogainternational.com Is there anything you'd add to the "Never say that in yoga class!" list?

The Pale Blue Dot - THE SAGAN SERIES

"The pale blue dot" a reality check from one of my favorites

youtube.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/thesaganseries Twitter - http://twitter.com/reidgower G+ - http://bit.ly/VpHzQh The Sagan Series is an educational project...

How to Decolonize your Yoga practice

"How to decolonize your yoga practice"

upliftconnect.com Five ways you can decolonize your yoga practice and get in touch with the real roots of yoga.

Scary Yoga Teachers: A Post-Halloween Rant by James Brown | American Yoga School

"Scary yoga teachers"

americanyogaschool.com You know that thing in a scary movie where someone runs from something because that thing is scaring the s**t out of them? Well, I recently did just that and

I am very very sad to say that my aunt Lisa passed away today very suddenly. I was really hoping for a "miracle" that the antibiotics would work and her heart would grow stronger slowly but it didn't happen. I'm sad I couldn't be there to say goodbye. I'm not sure if I believe this sort of thing and it was likely a coincidence but late in the afternoon, I came home and Ruby (my 4 year old daughter) was playing on her toy phone. She pretended to speak to aunt Lisa, this is the first time I ever saw her do this. She had me talk to her on the phone too. I almost called my aunt Denise to check on things when this happened but I then decided not to. Anyway. Thank you to those of you who knew this was happening and have been supportive. Please know I am still having the yoga class in her honor on August 14th (details in comments) and will be taking donations for my cousin, for her end of life expenses, etc.

A beautiful practice this morning with a lovely family.

Exploring Yoga and Cultural Appropriation with nisha ahuja - Decolonizing Yoga

Good video about cultural appropriation and yoga. What do you think?

decolonizingyoga.com nisha ahuja explores yoga and cultural appropriation in this film by Toby Wiggins. "What is cultural appropriation? What are its roots? Who benefits from cultural appropriation? What strategies are there to address colonialism?"

Heading out to teach yoga at the Hindu temple near Stockton university soon. Starts at 9:15. Only a $4 suggested donation.

Ego Free Yoga

I'll be subbing the yoga class at the Hindu Temple near Stockton tomorrow morning. Donation based class :)

Natalie Kraft will be covering my Saturday morning 9:15am class at the temple next week (7/25)! Come play with her :)

I read more than 50 scientific studies about yoga. Here's what I learned.

What one author learned after reading 50 studies on yoga...

vox.com The science of yoga's health benefits and harms, explained.

For The Yoga Teacher Who Triggered My PTSD

"For the yoga teacher who triggered my PTSD"

www.yoganonymous.com For the yoga teacher who triggered me...Before any other words are written, I want to say...