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How can hot yoga support your real life? Anchor it!

When you practice 90 minutes of hot yoga, you learn to challenge yourself, feel good about your accomplishments, then allow yourself the luxury to fully relax. But what about the other 1200+ daily minutes of real life outside of hot … Continue reading

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Who Owns Yoga?

The Hindus say they created yoga. Americans say they popularized yoga (8 million people and counting now do yoga.) Businesses, gurus and governments want a piece of the yoga profits. Yoga practitioners think yoga should be free. What is this … Continue reading

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Help Wanted: Yoga for Anger Management

The lastest widsom says you have to watch out for bad yoga teachers. You think you came to yoga to relax? Wake up! No closing your eyes in savasana -  you have to be on the lookout for yoga teachers … Continue reading

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Day 22: The Yoga of Going Home

I left home 22 days ago and I found home, here in Florence and Rome. As for New Jersey – I am not going back. I am going forward. I am tossing out the old maps that got me nowhere … Continue reading

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Day 20: The Yoga of The Vatican Walk

Does God close His doors? Apparently so, at 4PM each day in Vatican City But we don’t know the time of day. We know about savoring pizza and Piazze and a million little unplanned points. We linger at store windows … Continue reading

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Day 8: The Yoga of Michelangelo

Galleria Del’Accademia  is a small museum by Florentine standards:  just two floors of Renaissance sculpture and Renaissance paintings. Except for one thing: the sculptor in residence is Michelangelo. This the the morning I am going to see Michelangelo. There is … Continue reading

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