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Yoga Holidays Turkey 2014
Check out the how our yoga holidays could totally enhance your life. https://www.yoga-holidays-turkey.com https://www.facebook.com/yogaholidaysturkeyside Joi...

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5-Minute Yoga Nugget for Home Practice: Cat + Cow {incl. challenging variations}
Wondering what you can do at home {on your own, without a teacher present} to keep your yoga practice going? It #39;s easier than you think. In this video, you #39;l...

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Yoga - Calm Yourself Mudras

By: Amy Carr-Hilton RMT

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YOGA - RECOVERY REJUVENATION
YOGA - RECOVERY REJUVENATION.

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Yoga: The Art of Transformation

an exhibition at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C., October 19, 2013January 26, 2014; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, February 22May 18, 2014; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22September 7, 2014

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Debra Diamond Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Books, 328 pp., $55.00

by James Mallinson

Routledge, 299 pp., $49.95 (paper)

by David Gordon White

University of Chicago Press, 352 pp., $29.00 (paper)

by William R. Pinch

Cambridge University Press, 280 pp., $36.99 (paper)

Around 1600, a dramatic shift took place in Mughal art. The Mughal emperors of India were the most powerful monarchs of their dayat the beginning of the seventeenth century, they ruled over a hundred million subjects, five times the number administered by their only rivals, the Ottomans. Much of the painting that took place in the ateliers of the first Mughal emperors was effectively dynastic propaganda, and gloried in the Mughals pomp and prestige. Illustrated copies were produced of the diaries of Babur, the conqueror who first brought the Muslim dynasty of the Mughal emperors to India in 1526, as well as exquisite paintings illustrating every significant episode in the biography of his grandson, Akbar.

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Women are a fast-growing portion of the incarcerated population. In New York, a new yoga program focused on prenatal care is fostering courage, control, and mental health among inmates.

Kimberleigh Weiss-Lewit and eight other women made a makeshift circle in the middle of the cell.

Its just you, your baby, and your breath, Kim said.

One woman got up and left for the yard. Two others drifted off soon after.

Lets try to connect and trust one another, Kim said.

You dont trust anybody in here, scoffed one of the remaining four mothers-to-be.This is how Weiss-Lewit recalled her first prenatal yoga class, throughPrison Yoga Project-NY(PYP-NY) at theRose M. Singer Center, the womens section of Rikers Island.

Weiss-Lewit says she has to remind herself, My version of Rikers is not theirs.

Entering any prison to help pregnant women prisoners relax always made her feel like she was walking on eggshells. A corrections officer stood at the door with a big smile and maintained it for most of the class, Girl, you can do it!

For years, Weiss-Lewit has taught yoga and art therapy in New York State correctional facilities. She had her first pregnancy while teaching at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (its prison nursery, founded in 1901, is the oldest in the nation) and bonded with mothers serving time with children outside.

It is one of only nine prison nurseries in the nation, four of which have been created within the past five years. She had developed relationships with many of the women she met at Bedford Hills who were serving long sentences. At Rikers, inmates serve one year or less, often for things as minor as missing bail. Kim might not see the same women from one week to the next.

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Written by: Khusbu Bhakta on February 9, 2012.

The ways that this popular exercise may help heal you, emotionally and physically

Yoga is an exercise that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. It has also become some peoples primary source for exercise, relaxation and even medical healing.

Its so popular that even the Associated Press reported that the San Francisco International Airport just opened up a yoga room with low and warm lights, offering travelers a place to do a few downward dogs before jetting off.

If you think yoga is only for girls in Lululemon pants, think again. Only a few days ago, FOX News Channel reported that celebrity yoga coach, Gwen Lawrence, has been working with the New York Giants for 11 years.

Here in Las Vegas, yoga studios have sprouted up all over the city: next to grocery stores, coffee houses and in professional business complexes.

You can opt to do yoga in a room heated to well over a comfortable temperature and nearly sweat your a off next to other yogis sweating theirs off.

UNLV even offers a yoga class for credit, candlelit and all.

Las Vegan Terri Smith has been practicing yoga for a year at Bikram Yoga Summerlin. Bikram is the term for the heated yoga referenced earlier.

Smith was involved in a car accident that caused her many injuries and yoga helped her overcome it.

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Jeannie Gilson leads candlelight flow yoga on Wednesday evening at Karma Cat Yoga. (Holly Pelczynski)

Jeannie Gilson leads candlelight flow yoga on Wednesday evening at Karma Cat Yoga. (Holly Pelczynski)

BENNINGTON -- By becoming a nonprofit and changing its location, a local yoga studio plans to reach those who don't think yoga is for them and possible heal the community at the same time.

Karma Cat Yoga Studio originally opened along with Green Mountain Oasis, which offers massages and other spa services, at 469 Main St. Jeannie Gilson, Karma Cat's executive director, said it was started by Bethany Boulger, whose mother owns Green Mountain Oasis, and the two businesses shared space to their mutual benefit.

Since Feb. 1, Karma Cat has been at 186 North St., having decided to become a nonprofit organization and offer yoga classes to groups of people who might not normally find themselves in a yoga studio.

"It's really difficult to sustain a business of yoga in Bennington, because yoga is considered a luxury, and people don't have a whole lot of money for luxuries around here," said Gilson. "I firmly believe that yoga should not be luxury, that it's a necessity. It's very healing mentally, physically, emotionally, it's just a very healing daily practice."

Gilson is also the president of Karma Cat's board of directors. The group has been approved as a 501c3 nonprofit by the state, but is still in the process of getting approval from the Internal Revenue Service.

Karma Cat has gone in this direction for a number of reasons, Gilson said. One is the yoga classes that had been held during the day were not meshing well with the massage treatments at Oasis. Yoga can be noisy, Gilson said, especially the classes offered to young children, which makes it less than desirable to hold classes close to a massage therapist trying to relax a client.

Gilson said she and Boulger also wanted to bring yoga to a different group of people beyond those actively seeking it. "It was the same type of demographic," she said. "Yogis, over and over again, and I really wanted to find a way to access the greater Bennington community. We really do feel this is the way to heal Bennington."

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A school in Massachusetts bans girls from wearing yoga pants, while Lululemon still stings from the effects of fat-shaming women. Can we find balance around pants that are supposed to work for balance poses?

Administrators at a high school in Rockport, Mass.,who have enforced a ban on yoga pants and leggings are yet another reason why Americans need to get over the tendency to objectify the wearer rather than celebrate the body, mind, and spiritual benefits of comfortable attire.

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Lisa Suhay, who has four sons at home in Norfolk, Va., is a childrens book author and founder of the Norfolk (Va.) Initiative for Chess Excellence (NICE) , a nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth via mentoring and teaching the game of chess for critical thinking and life strategies.

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It's possible the administrators and faculty at Rockport High School may have needed to meditate on this decision around girls wearing yoga pants a little longer, especially as teen girls at the school report feeling objectified in the decision as they were blamed for distracting their male classmates.

This harkens back to recent coverage ofLululemon creating shoddy ultra-sheer yoga pants and then blaming it on women by saying some were just too chubby to wear them.

How does something as soothing as comfortable pants designed for the practice of meditation and fitness become such a regular hot button issue?

In the case of Rockport High, it seems the principal reacted under pressure from faculty, who expressed concern that students were not following the dress code, according to Yahoo.

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Emma Watson is looking forward to pursuing interests such as yoga and art once her studies are complete.

Emma Watson is a qualified yoga instructor.

The 23-year-old actress is close to completing her degree in English Literature and is looking forward to using her free time to pursue some hobbies away from acting.

She said: ''When I finish my degree, I will have a lot more time to pursue other passions, and I want to figure out what those will be.

''I love having something completely unrelated to the film industry. I want to find something that will let me use my brain in another way. I like connecting people who aren't part of that industry.

''I love painting. So maybe I hone in on that and do more art classes? Or maybe something different. I'm a board two certified qualified yoga instructor.''

Emma also has some professional ambitions she hopes to fulfill.

She said: ''I feel like I have so much more to accomplish as an actress. I'd love to try theatre, and that's a whole other thing, and I love to sing.''

And the brunette beauty is confident her studies will help her in her career.

She told Wonderland magazine: ''I've read just about every important classic in English history, which has been extremely handy.

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