Embarrassing Yoga Questions

1. I always seem to be farting in yoga class. Is there anything I can do? Passing gas while practicing yoga is actually very common (prenatal yoga classes are the worst!). You’re moving your body in ways that will stir up your guts, which is a good thing. We’re all adults here, and farting is […]

Partner Yoga

Have you ever received an adjustment from your yoga teacher that helped you get deeper into a pose, like some pressure on your back in paschimottanasana? What about an assist that allowed you to come into a posture that you couldn’t have done by yourself, for instance a lift into handstand? If so, you have […]

Vaginal Fart During Yoga

Question: Ask Aunt Yoga Advice Column: Vaginal Fart During Yoga Dear Aunt Yoga, Sometimes when I am coming out of plow pose, my body suddenly passes air out of my vagina making a fart-like sound. It’s embarrassing when in a room full of other people! I tried keeping my pelvic muscles tight (because this has […]

Janu Sirsasana

Type of Pose: Forward Bend Benefits: Stretches the hamstrings Instructions: 1. From Staff Pose – Dandasana, bend your knee and bring the sole of the left foot to your inner-right thigh. 2. Square your torso over the extended right leg, and begin to forward bend over that leg. 3. Keep the right foot flexed while […]

E-RYT

Definition: E-RYT stands for Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher. Like the RYT title, E-RYT is a Yoga Alliance classification. Yoga teachers who have accrued two years and 1000 hours of teaching experience may register themselves E-RYT 200s, while those with four years and 2000 hours of teaching under their belts may become E-RYT 500s. Examples: Now […]

Tulum, Mexico Is a Hot Spot for Fashion Insiders

Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times The new hot spot among the fashion crowd draws insiders intent on keeping a lower profile. More Photos » IT was a honey-gold morning in Tulum, Mexico, the low-rise, high-key ocean strip in the Yucatán 75 miles south of Cancún. While many visitors saluted the sun in various […]

All Bent Out of Shape

I first heard about William Broad’s debate-sparking article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” in yoga class on Saturday afternoon. As the class inhaled in an extended downward dog, the teacher asked if anyone had read the article. As we were guided into pigeon pose, the teacher offered this: “The thing is,” she told us, […]

Beryl Bender Birch Interview

Beryl Bender Birch is well known as an Ashtanga yoga devotee and as one of the major innovators of Power Yoga, which served to popularize an athletic, flowing style of asana practice in the west. She has now written Boomer Yoga, a guide to how to begin and adapt a yoga practice in one’s later […]

The Science of Yoga

You may think that yoga and science make strange bedfellows, but that’s beginning to change. As yoga’s popularity has exploded in recent years, the scientific establishment has finally begun to examine the evidence supporting the many claims about yoga’s benefits. In his new book, The Science of Yoga, William J. Broad, who, as a leading […]

The Great Yoga Divide

Sondeep Shankar for The New York TimesParticipants perform laughing exercises during Baba Ramdev’s yoga training camp in New Delhi, in this October 09, 2004 file photograph. Over 10,000 people attended the camp. An article about the dangers of yoga that appeared in the Sunday magazine of The New York Times this month inspired an outpouring […]

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