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A few years ago I was run by a bicycle in NYC, not major but certainly not pleasant. Unfortunately bike drivers seem oblivious to traffic rules and are very dangerous.  If you come visit, bee careful! see this video for illustration.

Mirella is skeptical but still attends the lecture by an enlightened being and gives a list of things to keep in mind.

Which hand grabs which other hand? Come again.

So you wanna do a hand-stand? David Keil gives good pointers here

Freedom! or how we might never get it?

Warning, pictures are a bit disturbing: Elephants go on a killing spree in Mysore, India

James is the guest editor at TheBrowser this week and he has six favorite, provocative, and interesting articles from around the blogsphere too! – my favorite.

My book hit #10 Amazon ranking in E-Book Form (kindle) -under yoga- this morning!  GRATITUDE

And on the video-watch:

Boston, San Francisco, Portland, Madrid and Torino (?)  You are lucky! Google just added live transit updates to google maps in your cities… and they are coming for all of us.  Gotta love those google guys!

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Is ideology like cocaine? – picture –

Yogi Arturo wonders if oreos in pinaple, raspberry and blueberry flavors are just an Asian thing, are they?

Vinyasa Flow or Ashtanga?

This Yogi needs help with his dilema of what to call his class?

Grimmly returns to his roots of Vinyasa Krama after a few weeks of Ashtanga. We understand, the Vinyasa Krama does include all limbs in each practice, and that is priceless!

The 9 ways to guarantee success at James’ blog, look awfully similar to yoga sutra #… can you tell which one? – Interesting that one commentator noticed!

7 Surprises I got from the yoga sutras, via Ramaswami and from Patanjali

I found this incredible video at Eddie Stern’s Blog, check Artur out, such control, such grace…

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Happy Sunday everyone, how did you enjoy the end of the world? So far it looks like we do primary and a bit of intermediate here in hell!

Here come 8 great reads from around the blog-yoga-sphere:


Sereneflavor is going, and so is leapinglanka, are you? (go here to leave your e-mail and they will keep in touch, registration is not yet open).

Getting started with Ashtanga Yoga? see the review of the “Intro to Ashtanga” DVD by Kino, Greg and Tim.

Tim Miller’s memorial post to Guruji and how it affected him

If you missed this class, then you are probably still alive.

Bandhas? forgedaboudit, says Grimmly generating quite a discussion

Can you interpret Bindy’s dream?

Yes, this is a photo, and of this planet. Amazing ha?

It’s been 2 years….
Let’s remember him by watching the questions and answers straight from the Guru himself:

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Hong Kong, China, from the air

White Indian Housewife confused about Meditation

A pondering yogi guide to Tratak – stare at that candle, and get those benefits

Thank you @Yoga for NY …  no further licensing required for teachers in NY -pending final decision- due to their efforts!

100 Incredible pictures taken from airplane windows

Woof or Om? Picture of the Doga contest winner.

Ninnie, a yoga teacher from Malasya drew a cool google doodle,  here you can even see how she drew it, frame by frame (I found it via an article at Yogadork)

And this article had a lot of people thinking that motivational speaking should sometimes be in the negative form: It’s Your Fault

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The India Tower in Mumbai

No ujjayi breath during ashtanga?

Torn between tradition and reality.

20 Tallest Buildings in the World, including some to come in the future

Iyengar to buy Ashtanga brand. Funny

Working towards the tic tacs, or tick tocks? what do you call them? All I can do when I watch them is go: “wheeeeeeee” – UPDATED: David just added Part II, on how to spring back. Nice.

And here is a yogi working through those video instructions above.

32 Suggestions (or 33, one of them was listed twice!) to start an Ashtanga Yoga Practice.

Recently anonymous asked about ashtanga for beginners, check out this great video from Kimberly Flyn with three stages (easy, medium advanced) ways to learn the Sun Salutes, and enjoy

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“Yoga makes me feel fat” says the author…

Check out these hilarious drawings of ashtanga poses at CK’s blog, who actually got them from Dan’s blog, small world!

Gorgeous night photography of the 1920s and 30s.

JustBeYoga just started a 40 day nadi shodana paranayama practice as spring cleaning.  Way to go!

Boodiba in awe at a two hour lecture with Ashtanga Yoga Teacher and Scholar Christopher Hildebrandt.

11 funny unintentionally sexual church signs.  Funny (found via Kai)

Autobiography of You, and Me, can’t we all relate? -from the archives-

Historic picture of the London’s hard-to-find underground system that used to be utilized to deliver the mail

And these are some messages that women wanted the media to hear… cool

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Judging by the terrace picture of the Mysore napper it does look like the Monsoon has arrived earlier to South India!

Reading between the lines of those logos…

Apparently the doga talent competition did not go well with other animals, here is how they responded. Funny


Jaw dropping! this guy who is now over 90 -but looks 60- escaped Auschwitz by pretending to be a German official.  What kind of guts does that take?!

Beautiful pictures from Earth-Day. Does #7 remind you of the “cork” in the Island of Lost?

A nice explanation and full demo of how to use the neti pot. Fluid action at minute 3:40

This shala in Portulgal recorded the students practicing to the stream with Sharath -on April 8th-, which can be seen on the wall projection. (No word yet on whether there will be a stream from Encinitas)

On the video below, at 2:46 while branching into the Krishnamacharya lineage, how come there is no A.G.Mohan or Ramaswami?

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James, did his practice -at least all of last week- and all came to him. In what form you ask? A comic book of his blog!
Will we see him doing yoga in cartoon form? Watch this space

Who practiced along the webstream of the Friday led class? – Lots of people:

Serenflavor –who actually drove to practice with others! That is dedication!

Grimmly -after work, of course, he is on English Time.

Nobel – well he tried but he does not have 5G. (he was joking, the internet is just slow sometimes) but he was there in spirit!

Christine (from this blog) and one other person who joined her, cool.

Michael Gannon, who twitted he would -from Mexico- Hola!

Who did I forget?  How sweet was it to be all together? I’d say priceless.

Moving West now: Las Vegas does not have an ashtanga yoga studio yet. So what did they do? they created a group on Facebook and they are gaining support, go Vegas!

And to end on a funny note, here are 6 Hughly Popular Books that Accidentally Screwed Up the World

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We all sometimes fall on, or under, other students while we attempt a new pose pose we have been trying for a while.  Nothing wrong with that.

You know that serpent that went missing from the Bronx zoo? We hear reports it made its way to downtown NYC and into the Jivamukti studio

Collages are powerful ways to manifest ideas into reality, and I am not the only one saying so!

Certified Ashtangi-teacher Alex Medin starts blogging again

Cold: here is a yogi who loves February. I had to wait till April to read.

A fair review of the 5 DVD set of Yiengar’s Intensive at Estees Park, Colorado

The video every yogi must watch. And everyone else too.

Have a book in you? No need for a publisher anymore, this 26-year-old is making millions that way

11 year old girl donates her life savings to stop teaching layoffs. In the process she is teaching us about efficient use of resources. She must be a yogi.

And… the controversial new statue of Michael Jackson causing a stir in London.

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The ‘Mysore napper’ leads the count for her husband to surrender into the primary series. OK, maybe she is just watching. Love those “spousal ashtangis” see the pictures

The best resrouce on Vinyasa Krama on the web.

Grrr, I think I would also be upset.

loopy time

Not “feeling” the Yoga Journal Talent Search? What about this Drawn This Way contest? They already have their finalists.

Curvy Yogis photo gallery. (Found it throurgh Loo in this post, thank you)

8 things to do if you get trapped in a time-loop. Funny.

After a year absence this reporter returns to Deli and finds it oh, so different.

Hm, this spirulina smoothie looks gorgeous

And for laughs, have you seen these twins talking, sort of?

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