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Yoga as it is portrayed by the media is not always the same as the yoga we practice. These articles explore what happens when the tradition of yoga meets the age of global media.

Lets talk about cultural appropriation in Yoga

June 23, 2022 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Sometimes an email arrives in your inbox and you have to share it. A well written and important contribution to the conversation around cultural appropriation of Yoga. An invitation to have a difficult conversation. See what arises for you when you read this? What actions can we take to make a difference? How are we complicit? More questions than answers, but that doesn't mean we should not ask them.  THE EMAIL: As world celebrates UN Yoga Day on June 21, Hindus upset at trivialization … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Uncategorized, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: hindu, yoga culture, yoga marketing

Hybrid Yoga Styles: Do They Enrich Yoga or Dilute It?

May 11, 2017 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Jo Stewart, Garden of Yoga A quick google search will turn up all kinds of yoga hybrids—think Bungee Yoga, Antigravity Aerial Yoga, HIIT Yoga, Beer Yoga, Vinyasa + Vino, Doga, Meowga, and Goat Yoga—and these are just a small sample of the pun-tastic world of hybridised yoga. While I might wonder how yogic some of these combinations actually are, my own classes could be on that list. I’ve also been to, and thoroughly enjoyed, hula hoop yoga and SUP yoga workshops at festivals. I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: aerial yoga, fusion yoga, Garden of Yoga, Jo Stewart, real yoga, Yoga hybrids

Five Reasons Why Crossfit & Yoga Complement Each Other

September 15, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

By Lucinda Staniland I started doing Crossfit because I wanted to get strong and build good bone density, not because I wanted to improve my Yoga practice. And I didn't think that my daily Yoga practice would help much when it came to the high-intensity strength training and cardio workouts that form the basis of Crossfit. Turns out I was wrong. The thing that surprised me most about Crossfit was not how hardcore it was, or how sore it made me, or how competitive everyone was, but rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: cross training, Crossfit, flexibility, meditation, muscles, muscular system, Squats

Is Yoga Really as Dangerous as Downhill Skiing? High ACC Levies Hit NZ Yoga Teachers

June 15, 2015 by Guest Author 4 Comments

Wellington yoga teacher Alison Tilley

By Laura Brookes If ACC’s got it right, all New Zealand yoga teachers should be on immediate hazard alert. They currently face the same risk of injury in their workplace as downhill ski instructors. Yoga instructors are charged $1.37 for every $100 earned in ACC levies, a higher rate than prostitutes ($0.40), firefighters ($0.92) and professional netball players ($1.31). ACC groups yoga instruction into the classification unit for Sports and physical recreation instruction, meaning they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: ACC, ali halle tilley, Alison Tilley, yoga, yoga business, yoga injury, yoga petition, yoga teacher

The Benefits of Yoga: Are They Proven By Science?

May 19, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

Albert Einstein

by Lucinda Staniland The benefits of yoga are well advertised. We hear that yoga will help us (among other things): lose weight, breathe better, live longer, have better sex, recover from depression, cure sciatica, heal our digestive system, build core strength, alleviate back pain, heal mental illness, and build bone health. But does science agree that yoga can really heal us in all these ways (and more)? Is Yoga really the silver bullet we've been waiting for? It turns out that yoga and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: Benefits of Yoga, Lucinda Staniland, science, science of life, science of yoga, yoga

The Real Stories Behind The Top 4 Yoga Myths

March 10, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

By Lucinda Staniland The internet is full to bursting with articles debunking the ‘Top Yoga Myths’. They tell us that contrary to poplar belief, Yoga is not a religion, that it’s not just for skinny, rich, flexible young women, and that it really is good exercise, as well as a holistic spiritual experience. Opinion is divided in these articles as to whether yoga really does or doesn’t give you great abs and fantastic orgasms. But, in general all these articles paint the same picture. Don’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: yoga body image, yoga media, yoga myth

The 6 Best Yoga Video Parodies You’ll Ever Watch

February 6, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland 3 Comments

Yoga girl spoof

 By guest author Lucinda Staniland You’d think an afternoon spent on Youtube watching Yoga video parodies would make for a good time. But it didn't. In fact, it was draining. And my quest to find ‘The Ten Best Yoga Video Parodies’ quickly became ‘The Ten Best Yoga Video Parodies (That Don’t Suck)’ and finally left me quietly fuming on ‘Why Funny Yoga Videos Actually Aren't Funny At All’. As I trawled through the Internet's bountiful supply of Yoga spoofs and parodies, I began to finding them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: funny yoga video, yoga and body image, yoga media, yoga parody, yoga video

Yoga Is For You (Even If You Don’t Think It Is)

September 17, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

In celebration of  the launch of The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga, I’ve invited some friends and colleagues to write articles relating to the theme of the book’s subtitle: Because yoga is for every body. One of the most inspiring memoirs on yoga that I've read is by Matthew Sanford called Waking. I'm not going to tell you about it because I don't want to spoil Nadine's article down below, but I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy. It inspired one of the chapters in my book and has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: Benefits of Yoga, body positivity, Differently abled, yoga for everyone

No More Dancers Doing Yoga on Youtube

September 5, 2014 by Guest Author 4 Comments

Beautiful video but a disservice to yoga?

In celebration of  the launch of The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga, I’ve invited some friends and colleagues to write articles relating to the theme of the book’s subtitle: Because yoga is for every body. It’s one way of helping to smash the image and idea that you need to be thin, flexible, young and female to practice yoga - or that yoga has to involve advanced postures. Unfortunately, much of what we see in the media reflects this idea about yoga - something J.Brown discusses in this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga in the Media Tagged With: advanced yoga, body image, inaccessible, j. brown, yoga video

Because Yoga is for Every Body – Right? Not just the Young, Slim, Bendy and Gorgeous

August 22, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I'm casting my mind back to Auckland, New Zealand in 1995 and it seems a long, long time ago. I had just dropped out of my second year at Uni - ostensibly because back issues and serious sciatic pain made it impossible for me to sit for lectures, but there were other, deeper reasons too. (i.e. my habitual response when facing serious challenge - run!) Regardless, I was in chronic back pain. A good friend suggested we go and do a ten week beginners Iyengar yoga course that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: beginners, inflexible, new to yoga, yoga book

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