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Crow Pose or Bakasana explained by Esther Ekhart – Video
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Pure Yoga “escorts out” popular instructor Marco Rojas
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Uptowns upscale yoga bunnies are buzzing after a hot instructor at luxe Pure Yoga was ordered by the studio to roll up his mat and leave through the back door this week.
Marco Rojas was treated by his clients as kind of a deity, according to a source. But he wound up in an un-Zen-like clash with the studio that blew up this week.
Sources say Rojas was bringing in up to 500 students weekly at Pures West 77th and East 86th Street locations, but he irked the studio by becoming a bit too big for his yoga pants.
He thought he wasnt expendable, and they thought he wasnt worth it anymore, said one Upper West Side novelist and yoga mom. They started to marginalize him and push him out. Sources said Rojas further antagonized Pure because he was also teaching at rival Ishta Yoga.
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A source close to Pure said the split with Rojas was mutual. But when we contacted Rojas, the downward-dog doyen told us, Yoga is about the truth. It was not a mutual decision.
He said the clash came when Pure owners werent receptive to his ideas for workshops and retreats. Management thought I was difficult because I was trying to teach them how to do things in a yogic way, he said. Managers are not yoga practitioners. I came to them with projects, and some of the managers didnt want to do it. They dont understand what it is to do a yoga retreat.
A rep for Pure said she couldnt comment, but a source said Rojas was not kicked out. Rojas countered: They [gave me] just 45 minutes before [a] class, [and] fired me without having consideration . . . It was disrespectful. They escorted me . . . to clear out my stuff, and took me out of the back door. It might be the protocol, but this is yoga. They are supposedly running a company called Pure Yoga, but this is impure yoga. However, [Im] not interested in starting a war, but an evolution, he said.
One devotee lamented the development via Facebook: Marco, I am devastated . . . You have made such a difference in my life. Namaste.
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Yoga for those who like it hot in Mendham
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MENDHAM - The temperature is ramped up to 98 degrees while a group of men and women sweat out their toxins while concentrating on their breathing.
It is called hot yoga and it is the newest twist on a timeless practice.
The latest hot yoga facility is the Inferno Hot Yoga Studio in the Mendham Village Shopping Center on Route 24. Livingston resident Dorothy Dootsie Risch, 41, opened the studio on April 14 after giving up a job as a medical assistant.
Before 2011, Risch had never practiced yoga but her arrival to the field has come at a blistering pace.
Married with five sons, Risch said that prior to opening the studio, she worked for seven years for a Roseland pediatrician. A recreational runner, she began to suffer chronic headaches and a painful, bulging disc. She was using headache medication and had an epidural shot to help reduce the pain. None of it worked very well.
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About two years ago, she stopped in to a newly opened hot yoga studio in Livingston and within two weeks, she was hooked.
The next thing I was off headache medication and there were no more neck problems, she said.
Risch was so impressed that she enrolled in the Samadhi Sun Yoga Academy in Stirling. She completed a 200-hour program and was certified as an instructor with the National Yoga Alliance. Risch also gained certification in the healing art of Reiki.
She spoke with her husband, Ronald, a retired Livingston police officer, and by last fall, she decided she would open her own hot yoga studio. Risch checked the Internet and spoke with a friend from Brookside before deciding on the storefront formerly occupied by a Verizon store.
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Yoga Benefits Translate From the Mat to the Community
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Abby Wills practically has me at hello. Its a no-brainer. She is about mindfulness and yoga and how it can help our youth. But as we talk in a recent phone interview, I feel myself sitting up straighter and listening more intently when the stories start coming.
She tells me of the 9-year-old whose mother was prone to yelling. The child would yell back and the situation would quickly escalate. Then one day the child came to yoga with another parent in her community. Now, a few years into it, she goes into the bathroom and does some yoga poses when her mother starts yelling. Then, when feeling calm, she opens the door and talks to her mother.
Or theres the bi-racial young woman who was being targeted by Latino and African-American gangs in her Los Angeles neighborhood because she is both. She rarely went outside over fear of being hassled and harassed. Enter yoga and a whole lot of mountain pose; learning how to be in the world with upright, confident energy to the point where it feels like protection. Now she walks her neighborhood like she belongs there and is not as frequently targeted.
Beautiful testimony.
Yoga has that effect, Wills tells me. We utilize the whole being mind, body, spirit and that translates from the mat to the community.
So many of us know this because we practice yoga and reap its benefits. But for Wills its different, deeper.
Co-founder and program director of Shanti Generation, which produces educational media experiences that bring ancient and modern practices to youth in relevant, innovative formats, Wills has gone from feeling misplaced as a youth and being bullied and pointedly telling herself at age 12 that life is not about what everybody thinks of you to having a sense of mission in adulthood. With some heavy things going on around her in childhood, she realizes in retrospect it would have been tremendously helpful to have the coping skills that yoga fosters.
Imagine something like that being available to me at every moment, she says. And free.
It was in college that she found herself drawn to philosophy and Eastern thought and it was on a return trip from an ashram in India in her early 20s when it hit her that this was her purpose. Now, at 37, living in California, Wills is steeped in experience, passion and knowledge on the topic of yoga for young people (with a focus on ages 7-16). Using her social justice and developmental education at Pacific Oaks College (Pasadena, Calif.) and more than 10 years of teaching, she has helped create a program on DVD that makes it easy for non-yoga people to use it in the classroom.
Mindful that instances of bullying are up and that these days teachers are often paying for resources from their own pockets, Shanti Generation has set up a buy one, give one program to get yoga to as many children as possible. And where Wills and Shanti Generation leave off, Leah Kalish and Move With Me Action Adventures come in with a focus on yoga for children ages 3-7 (and their own buy one, give one opportunity).
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Yoga may benefit stroke recovery patients
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Some 600 breast cancer survivors and their families go through yoga exercises on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum in downtown Philadelphia May 20 2007. They participate in the the mass yoga class annually to raise funds and awareness of breast cancer issues. (UPI Photo/John Anderson)
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (UPI) -- An eight-week yoga program for recovering stroke patients improved balance and flexibility and provided other benefits, U.S. researchers said.
Arlene Schmid, rehabilitation research scientist at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and IU Bloomington, said the men and women had completed their post-stroke occupational and physical therapy before the yoga study but continued to experience impairments.
Schmid said loss of functional strength, flexibility and endurance is common after a stroke, but it can lead to long-term disability.
The researchers said as a result of the yoga there were significant improvements in functional strength, flexibility and endurance.
The yoga activities, Schmid said, might have "improved neuromuscular control, likely allowing for strength improvements in affected limbs, sides or areas of disuse."
Schmid concluded it might be appropriate to include yoga in the in-patient or out-patient rehabilitation people receive after a stroke.
The study was presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in San Francisco.
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Holistic Learning Center- BE an Empowering Life Coach! – Video
Posted: June 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm
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ANALYSIS-Soccer-Rodgers comes out fighting for big battles ahead
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New manager Brendan Rodgers tried to say all the right things on Friday when he assured Liverpool's fervent fans that he would dedicate his life to fighting for the club and its passing principles.
It was a confident start from a man who is facing a huge challenge in convincing the supporters and English soccer in general that he is the man to revive the fallen giants after one good season in the Premier League with Swansea City.
"Footballers are footballers. They want to learn and be educated and improve. That's something I've done with all types of players," said Rodgers, whose own playing career ended at the age of 20 due to a knee condition.
Having the Anfield crowd on side is a crucial part of the job as current England manager Roy Hodgson discovered in his own short-lived and unhappy time at Liverpool.
Kenny Dalglish, the sacked club great who Rodgers replaces, could never be faulted for his passion for a footballing institution and many fans were upset that he was let go last month despite a lowly eighth place Premier League finish.
Passion only goes so far, however, and Liverpool's American owners are convinced Rodgers has other qualities needed to set the five times champions of Europe back on the road to success.
His appointment and the expected announcement of Norwich City's Paul Lambert at Aston Villa - also American owned - may be seen as a sign that the tide has turned and young British coaching talent is again on the rise in the Premier League.
But what makes the 39-year-old Northern Irishman particularly attractive to his new employers is that he is in so many ways untypical of the British manager of Dalglish's generation.
Liverpool chairman Tom Werner highlighted the new manager's style of "attacking, relentless football" and spoke of him as a coach at the forefront of a new wave.
He talked of Rodgers' talents as motivator and technician and his accomplishments at Swansea, a club with one of the smallest grounds in the Premier League who defied expectations of a swift return to the second division with some delightfully stylish performances last season.
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MMACS: Combo Video (NASM’s Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Specialist) – Video
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