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The #Responsibility of Being Great | Amber Dehn

2013-07-24T21:14:00.001-07:00

The #Responsibility of Being #Great | Amber Dehn | Yoga Teacher

With responsibility comes a rush of energy, a intense flow of everything that you want, chances to teach, to lead, to grow. And with that rush, that flow, attention is needed to stay organized, to stay open, to take responsibility for your life. And that can be a lot sometimes, especially when you are just getting started, or staring a whole new chapter in life. But you can do it! We are each so much more powerful than we may think, or even believe, but if we open ourselves up to higher levels of responsibility and organization in life, the flow of chaos brings to us what it is that we need to be doing, sharing and receiving. But let us not fall into the trap of laying off our responsibility on others through blame or complaining. To speak (or gossip) is to release energy. To listen (and to be open) is to receive and grow.

The Yoga Alliance #Audio Files

2013-07-24T21:03:00.001-07:00

The Yoga Alliance #Audio Files – Deliver or Disband (Jul 14, 2010)

John Mathews Embellishes:

First, let me say that I am personally appalled that actions and statements by YA staff (now former staff) were so much at odds with the sentiments and values of the YA board of directors, and indeed, with the adopted policy position of the organization relating to state regulation of yoga schools, studios, and teachers.

John Matthews statement contradicts many points from your speech that you gave at the Texas Yoga Conference. You know... The one you specifically forbid the organizers from letting me attend.

This is what I found out. John Matthews admits that Yoga Alliance just signed a profitable deal that will help them expand and grow.

He could be talking about the insurance partnerships he helped broker, or he could be talking about Infotek and EarthBright the two companies Yoga Alliance paid for "web work," that wasn't deliverable. AKA: Black Hat SEO.

Audio Files of Yoga Alliance contradicting motives

When #YogaTeacher #Educates - by Cherryl Duncan

2013-07-24T19:30:00.001-07:00

When #YogaTeacher #Educates - by Cherryl Duncan

BIO:

Cherryl Duncan is an internationally trained Yoga teacher known for her strong energy, impassioned expressiveness, and inspirational style of teaching that integrates the physical as well as the spiritual aspects of Yoga.

Cherryl has written articles for magazines such as Yoga awakening and is the creator and founder of Living Yoga Johannesburg. She has also posed for a series of Naked Yoga posters in an attempt to raise money for her Animal Liberation cause. Visit www.nakedyoga.co.za to see more.

Cherryl Duncan , IndependentYoga, learning yoga, Cherryl Duncan yoga, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Studio, South Africa, Yoga Teacher

Jamie Koonce | Ayurveda & Ancient Chinese Medicine

2013-07-24T19:01:00.001-07:00

Jamie Koonce | Ayurveda & Ancient Chinese Medicine

If you want to understand Quality Rich Raw Superfoods, Chinese Herbs, Ayurvedic Herbs, Nutraceuticals, and Glandulars, I found a great person to speak to: Jaimie Koonce.

Jamie has a practice in San Diego and is very into getting you into feeling great as a natural person and is an equally great resource on the matter of Ayurveda and Ancient Chines Medicine. She explains that in order to increased your energy and strengthen immunity, that Ancient Chinese guided steps are extremely beneficial. As a person the difference you see is exponential.

Jamie Koonce, San Diego, California, Ayurveda, Ancient Chines Medicine, Raw Superfoods, Chinese Herbs, Ayurvedic Herbs, Nutraceuticals, Glandulars

About Brian #Castellani

2013-07-15T09:43:00.001-07:00

"Life is about how you react every day."

There is not a compartmentalized version of myself that you meet. When you meet me, you meet me. I am not going to pretend that I am better than I am, I am not going to fool you about how great everything is, and I won’t tell you how to embrace the possibility of abundance in your life.

As a person, I do yoga as much as I can, which sometimes is not as much as I’d like. I have bad balance from a previous accident and have been known to fall when provoked. I can be purposely oblivious to certain people. I can also be selective and have tunnel vision, but it’s mainly because I am aware of what I am passionate about.

#HandDrawn #Yoganomics Logo | by: Adrienne Ottenberg Hartman

2013-07-13T14:25:00.001-07:00

#HandDrawn #Yoganomics Logo | by: Adrienne Ottenberg Hartman

Dark Blue:

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Yoga Regulation from Bob Butera, Phd

2013-07-12T08:59:00.001-07:00

Yoga Regulation from Bob Butera, Phd

In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware where Yoga Living magazine circulates as a bi-montly magazine, we have not heard of legislation regulating Yoga teachers. There have been rumors, but nothing has reached the floor of the State Legislature.

LIke most Yoga communities, we oppose regulating Yoga practitioners as there are spiritual as well as physical implications with the various Yoga organizations. Also, there appear to be no gains for the client of Yoga schools.

First of all, how would one regulate an industry that has such variety from the overly physical approaches to the spiritual approaches of yoga practice. Some Yoga schools are similar to fitness clubs, while other Yoga schools function like religious groups and there are plenty of schools in the middle or both! The point being that each of these schools serve their students and there would be no set of regulations that could fit any school.

Blissful Way from Druggie to Yogi

2013-07-12T08:50:00.001-07:00

@yogarecovery: Blissful Way from #Druggie to #Yogi

Ananda Marga, Blissful Way, Druggie, ego, faith, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Meditation,niyamas, recovery, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, Substance dependence, True Alisandre,University of Miami, Wesley Foundation, Yoga, yoga and recovery, Yogi

Yoga State Regulation

2013-07-11T20:58:00.001-07:00

For almost two decades, Yoga Alliance has forced willing subscribers to jump through hoops, fill out reams of documents, display their trademark on yoga teachers websites, and now — if 50 individual US states adopt a “Yoga Alliance 200/500 hour standards” as the basis of “Yoga Credentialing,” then YA membership would increase from the current 35,000 members to astate regulated mandatory set of standards.

Maybe, maybe we need an entity similar to YA, but the qualification and judging of American and International yoga can certainly be done by a more comprehensive yoga entity that can accomplish more than bean counting.

How to hold yoga hostage for 12 years

"Yoga Alliance enhances your credibility as

a yoga professional ...."

At the Texas Yoga Conference, John Matthews said Yoga Alliance could manipulate the "Yoga Market-Share."

Let us examine how "Yoga Alliance" manipulate the "yoga market-share." Exactly, how would you guess that Yoga Alliance manipulates yoga?

“Blog Farming is the process of creating Blogs which are intended for a purpose other than adding value for its readers. Most of the blogs created contain duplicate content or content which do not add any value.”

BlogFarming101

The Manipulation of the Yoga market-share means that Yoga Alliance can, and will

Sell subscribers information to other corporations through newsletter offers and/or direct sale of newsletter list's.

Have blog farms to help create and manage meaningless PR "buzz" which promotes more meaningless generic chatter in made in meaningless half-statements - which are creates blog posts made by unassuming people who are unfamiliar with the terms inflated false-ego predominance for market-share.

Not answer subscribers direct credentialing questions when specifically asked.

Not respond, which means not return phone calls, when yogis call them from New York (NY For Yoga) or Virginia (Virginia Yoga Teachers) as the local state governments are closing in on on taxation... (allegedly because Yoga Alliance stays impartial to their subscribers, and it is "not their place to comment or interfere... however they claim to always have been "in" the business of "yoga credentialing") (hi - that is a total copout)

Quickly jumped at the chance to help Texas "continue" the fight for Yoga Credentialing, after the regulation fight had already been established.... but mainly because they could not be directly blamed for Texas Yoga Regulation.

Admitted in public that Yoga Alliance credentialing is worthless, and went on to say that how "they" (Yoga Alliance) survived for this long is nothing short of a miracle. (actually brow beating customers into renewal under misrepresented "false pretenses" by completely misleading and debasing the Yoga Alliance Subscribers.)

Consistently down played yoga credentialing in America since their formation in 1999.

John Matthews falsely denied knowing "anything" about Yoga Alliance's involvement in Yoga Regulation which was specifically regarding New York and Virginia.

John Mathews and Lynn Bushnell specifically asked Mark Davis to inquire about yoga credentialing in the United States - and the former President of Yoga Alliance, not only did as requested, but also called a large number of States and "educated them" on what role Yoga Alliance played in Yoga Credentialing and requested they adopt the 200/500 hour credentialing process when they are ready.

the foundation which Yoga Alliance is built upon is the opposite of what most professional yoga endorse. People like, for instance, the misrepresentation of yoga in America by making the standards for being a yoga teacher so low that now the market is flooded with the meaningless badge "RYT 200." (which they own the trademark for) (which is completely ludicrous since it is worthless)

Are hoping that Us Yoga Teachers will forget how they have taken them for granted.

Yoga Alliance has collected yoga teachers' information and money for 12 years and have absolutely nothing to show for it.

In thier own words they have confirmed Yoga Alliance's credentialing is meaningless, have moved from PA to VA on their subscriber's dime, refused to take responsibility for their role in Government Yoga Regulation, still will not return calls when the yoga teachers call, pay money to Lance Armstrong and other generic Web Blog Farms to promote Yoga Alliance PR to manipulate impressionable minds to believe that they are associated with popular and meaningful causes, manipulate subscribers into believing they are getting a "worthwhile" service - even though it was only after Brian Castellani began calling our business practices into question, that they began altering their bad actions.

It is a common CHEAP marketing ploy to pay money to other non-profits (Lance Armstrong) and specific blog farming businesses to have them blog about how great Yoga Alliance is ... because we already know that "Yoga Alliance" is GREAT! We just aren't sure what they do exactly.

Yoga Regulation is in Nebraska, Utah, Michigan, Arizona, Washington State... has already happened and failed in New York and Virginia - NOT because of Yoga Alliance *BUT* because yoga teachers stood together when while Yoga Alliance was absent.

The ideal of what yogis want is a form of childhood mythos in relation to the outside world. It is unfortunate that Yoga Alliance will never be the benevolent voice that guides yoga, but rather a misguided voice leading innocent yogis to a monetized, proprietary and incomplete education failure.

John Matthews statement's about Yoga Alliance has specifically impeded Yoga Teachers ability to make more money for themselves by down playing yoga the importance of education - and as much as yoga practitioners may think they want to stay out of "Government regulation," the American Medical Association will change all that.

Why? Because yoga is already being used in the medical professional world as a way to rehabilitate, yoga Teachers are not getting paid for it. In Louisiana a yoga teacher will get paid $50.00, while the insurance company gets paid $175.00 - The American Medical Association will see to it that they extort their fair share of financial revenue, as will the insurance companies, and the Yoga Alliance Blue Dog Dems are biding their time to be in the middle of it, which has been their goal all along.

Yoga regulation and licensing is still happening in Missouri, Texas, Louisiana and soon other states.

John Matthews, delinquent president of Yoga Alliance, after admitting that Yoga Alliance credentialing was not worth anything, said:

Yes... it true... Yoga Alliance credentialing isn't worth anything, but wait, things are on the way!

John Matthews - who has been quoted in NY, as stating the fabrication: We (Yoga Alliance) had no idea about yoga Regulation... I only began working for in 2010.

Until Yoganomics proved that John Matthews started contracting with Yoga Alliance in 2004, he again changed his story.

(And we are still wondering how rubber stamping paperwork can cost that much.)

Yoga Alliance cannot stop telling falsehoods, nor can they tell the truth. How long does yoga need to put up with cover up - after - cover up - from Yoga Alliance before we realize we need to take care of it ourselves?

The weight of the ever present "never mind" in John Matthews version:

Never mind that John Matthews statements on the Texas Yoga Conference Audio files completely contradicts the information he what he says earlier at the New York Conference.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance has wasted 12 years to finally admit that their credentialing process - is FLAWED.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance has not been accountable to the yoga teachers that they allegedly serve for 12 years, and still collected money for them. Hmmm. Like, why? To what end, and what was the real purpose of lowering the standards of yoga. How does that translate into the Yoga Alliance Mission of supporting Yoga??

Never mind that for twelve years of business Yoga Alliance has fostered their corporate relationships - and have nothing else to show for it.

Never mind that until Yoganomics.net forced Yoga Alliance to explain - on record - their reasons for misappropriating their mission and buinsess relationships - they NEVER commented on regulation, credentialing and until recently - like the last eight months - never called anyone back.

Never mind that until yoga teachers took matters into their own hands and completed all of the hard work, Yoga Alliance is attempting to take all the credit for the work they didn't do.

Never mind that John Matthews and Lynn Bushnell originally ordered Mark Davis to inquire to Wisconsin about Yoga Regulation and later blamed him and eventually fired him for it.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance failed to secure their own yoga monopoly on yoga credentialing and later distanced themselves by playing both sides of the political yoga credentialing coin.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance was founded in 1999, and John Matthews came to work for Yoga Alliance in 2004, which means he has been with them for over seven years.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance keeps pushing yoga regulation off on Ex-YA President Mark Davis and Jeannine Frest, who directly took their orders from the Board of Yoga Alliance which also included John Matthews.

Never mind that Yoga Alliance has continued to lie to not only their own subscribers and the yoga public in general.

Never mind that there is a "Valid Until Date" on every Yoga Alliance 200/500 hour registered certification, engineered in a pavlovian response to get subscribers to renew

Why does it really matter?

Most likely if a yoga teacher is only will never register for a yoga credential and what I write will not impact you at all.

However, if you believe that yoga, along with other Eastern and Indian modalities matter, then realize that Yoga Alliance is profiting from our own lack of responsibility to one another. The accountability of having one teacher putting their stamp of approval on another teachers training are a memory of yesterday.

We are the few in yoga who took a stand, while most of the corporate yoga entities decided it was more important to protect earnings and continue selling client lists than talk about what was actually happening.

A dozen Non-Profit Board Members Does Not Represent The Whole of Yoga. We Do Not Need More Sequestered Propaganda.

Yoga needs Tangible Truth! These events only signify that there needs to be more discussion with active yoga teachers who want to participate in the future of world wide yoga, and not fear the inevitable unknown.

Yoga Teachers need a way to set their own standards, without the disconnected good ole boys from Yoga Alliance.

FIVE QUESTIONS for Yoga Alliance

2013-01-24T23:03:00.001-08:00

#FIVEQUESTIONS: for Yoga Alliance

Question #1 for: What did Yoga Alliance pay $336,325.00 for in 2011 ?

While Alison West and Susan Van Nuys fronted the money for legal representation and local government lobbying, both yoga teachers (Susan and Alison) asked Yoga Alliance for financial help and a reasonable explanation to help to fund yoga regulation legal defense's, but Yoga Alliance flatly turned them down and never returned their phone calls. While Yoga Alliance claims to be the support for Yoga, their actions at that time are inexcusable and are lacking even the faintest of civility.

Why is Yoga Alliance so ambiguous about $336,325.00?

Yoga Alliance's 2009 Tax Return clumps this amount under two web design companies:

EarthWrite - never in business
Infoteck - United States Defense Contractors of Missile Guidance Systems

The information doesn't make sense, so is Yoga Alliance is hiding what they actually used the money for?

Did Yoga Alliance pay a U.S. company for "ghost blogging" services to fix their their horrible public relations?

Is Yoga Alliance putting yoga specific information about credentialing (as propaganda) on different blogs all over the world?

This is referred to by the technology community as "Black Hat SEO," or "Ghost Blogging," or "Blog Farming."

To date, Yoga Alliance has removed some of the dummy blogs, and have yet to admit to it.

Yoga Alliance paid money to be on Lance Armstrong's corporate affiliate blog: LiveStrong.org as soon as 8 months ago, and may still be on the blog.

Why isn't it public knowledge on your tax return how much severance has been paid to Mark Davis or John Matthews?

On the Tax Returns that I personally read, there were explicit directions for large amounts of money paid to individuals and to contractors.

I am interested in understanding why Yoga Alliance's specific severance they paid to past presidents also was not specifically claimed on their tax returns.

If Yoga Alliance wasn't legally permitted to sponsor Yoga Journal Conference's due to a violation of U.S. laws and non-profit tax codes, why did Yoga Alliance sponsor the Yoga Journal Conference's from the years 2001 - 2009?

Yoga Alliance 2011 Texas Yoga Conference Audio Recordings of John Matthews Claiming Yoga Alliance Just Signed a Deal

2013-01-24T22:44:00.001-08:00

YogaAlliance 2011 Texas Yoga Conference Audio Recordings of John Matthews Claiming Yoga Alliance Just Signed a Deal

The real tragedy of Yoga Alliance is that the people really were effected by their dishonesty and those that are unable to “own” their problems – are the same people who subscribe to their service. Rather than holding a healthy respect for yoga, Yoga Alliance has opened the gates and paraded low standards as a badge to be worn with pride. The board of Yoga Alliance is the new corporate (non-profit) titians of yoga - because that is where their focus is – which is nothing short of a reluctance to admit fault or failure.

Please Click the Links To Listen to all 5 Talks:

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Inspire a Revolution: Yoga Revolution with Frank Fitzpatrick’s Untold Story

2013-01-24T09:50:00.001-08:00

To #Inspire a #Revolution: @YogaRevolution – Frank Fitzpatrick’s untold story

Frank Fitzpatrick is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, platinum-selling music producer and Founder/Director of EarthTones, a non-profit arts organization committed to raising social consciousness and connecting people across the globe through the power of music and media.

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” — Ludwig van Beethoven, 1810

Chloe Hallock & USA Yoga Asana Championship

2013-01-23T15:26:00.001-08:00

Chloe Hallock & USA Yoga Asana Championship

Bikram Yoga Teacher Chloe Hallock competed in the Oregon and Washington Regional USA Yoga Asana Championship (where 45 people participated). Chloe is a loved Bikram Yoga Teacher in Portland’s Yoga community studios. The Bikram community is holding donation yoga classes for her this weekend so she can afford to go to the USA Yoga Championships in New York City.

Portland has long been a close knit “tight” yoga community! Bend with Chloe Hallock at either Bikram Yoga Alberta Street 6:30pm Friday night and at Bikram Yoga – Fremont St 4:30pm Sunday night. NYC here comes Chloe!!!

Chloe Hallock, Portland Yoga Benefit, USA Yoga Asana Championship, IndieYoga

The Yoga Blue-Light Special

2012-12-02T11:35:00.000-08:00

Three days after this article’s first printing, John Matthews resigned from his position as president from Yoga Alliance. The reasons are non-transparent according to generally accepted protocol.

Yoga Alliance claim’s they didn’t know about the Yoga Regulation happening in the United States during the years of 2008, 2009, 2010, when in fact Yoga Alliance is the whole reason states began the crusades to tax yoga teachers as a vocation.

In 2009 Yoga Alliance worked with Individual State governments to “Educate” the members of the Education Conference and later, successfully persuaded “some states” to adopt the Yoga Alliance 200 hours as a benchmark of yoga education (thereby hoping to create a monopoly on RYT teaching methods and bulldoze membership).

Yoga Alliance successfully trademarked RYS, RYT, ERYT, Yoga Alliance, YAPlus while they claimed to NOT set standard’s for yoga, but only suggest and maintain a registry of teachers who meet the bare minimum of necessary education it takes to become a yoga teacher.

Step down from your positions.

Just days after this was first printed, Regulation issues that occurred in New York, Virginia (Yoga Alliance’s own state of residence), Texas, Louisiana and Washington set the tone for all Yoga Alliance criticism’s and critiques.

Yoga Alliance accept’s zero blame for attending the 2008/2009 US Educators Conference. They apologize for things that are trivial and small in relation to what they are really responsible for. So standing from where I have been, as an ex-Yoga Journal employee who spoke to yoga teachers and studio owners all over the world, having been to the first Texas Yoga Conference, also the organizer of the only ad hoc “yoga regulation” gathering in New Orleans (where over 50 studio owners and yoga teachers attended), Yoga Alliance gets exactly what they deserve: a name stained in inept business practices and cursed as the carpet bagger’s of yoga credentialing.

The whole reason that any Yoga Alliance article has been written is not from what Yoga Alliance has done, per say, but rather what they did not do – through their actions in omitting facts, omitting the actual truths of how events transpired, and not accepting responsibility for any of their actions.

All of the decisions, all of the actions set in motion by Yoga Alliance happened not because of their past presidents, not because of their past employees, but rather for only two reasons: the nonprofit board of Yoga Alliance (Lynn-Bushnell, Gyandev-McCord, Virginia-S.-Cowen, Arun-Tilak) and John Matthews – a Yoga Alliance contract employee since 2004 and now acting president.

In 2008 Yoga Alliance sent President Mark Davis to a national Government Educators Conference, where Mark Davis “educated” the members of that conference and later, successfully persuaded Virginia to adopt the Yoga Alliance 200 hours as a benchmark of yoga education. [Stated on Facebook in a PDF format]

During the times that Yoga Regulation was occurring between 2009 – 2011, Yoga Alliance specifically and quite strategically did not involve themselves in any local state yoga regulation issues because they gambled that yoga teachers would accept the taxation on yoga as a vocation.

Yoga Alliance expected that since individual states were beginning to instigate “vocational” taxes on yoga teachers, that Yoga Alliance would benefit by the “YA 200 hours as a benchmark of yoga education.” [first-hand accounts from two ex-Yoga Alliance employees]

Yoga Alliance gambled incorrectly and when an outpouring of upset yoga teachers pulled their memberships, they quickly changed their tune.

It would seem that Yoga Alliance has changed under the yoga public’s pressure, and now have formed an airtight micro-managed 501c6 Trade Organization because they couldn’t accomplish anything as an unaccountable 501c3. Or, that Yoga Alliance’s current positive outlook didn’t change the fact that in 2008 and 2009, they knew that states were going to begin taxing yoga teachers as a “vocation,” and that they knowingly “omitted” information.

An omission of truth is another word for profiting from others misfortune.

Yet, in New York, Virginia, and Texas, yoga teachers were paying hefty lawyer fees and state lobbyists, do you know what Yoga Alliance was doing? Take a wild guess...

No help for the yoga teachers of Virginia, or New York. But... ironically, they did help themselves.

In 2010, while yoga teachers in New York and Virginia were paying out of pocket for lawyers and lobbyists – fighting for the right to teach yoga to students – untaxed…. meanwhile, good ole Yoga Alliance paid $336,325.00 to two different corporate blog-farming businesses to increase their online presence. [2009/2010 Tax Returns]

They never responded to emails, never responded to phone calls, and fired all of their staff except Jeanine Frest and officially hired the master manipulator John Matthews as Yoga Alliance’s official micro-managing ultra meditating, non-yoga practicing, Yoga Alliance president.

So what is the solution?

Yoga teachers should take out a class action suit against Yoga Alliance for having yoga teachers follow their ridiculous “bare-minimum” trademarkedrequirements that DO NOT measure a yoga teachers worth. The RYS, ERYT, RYT (trademarked) labels amount to very little in terms of today, in terms of yoga education, and effectually do absolutely nothing in terms positioning a yoga teachers career.

Yoga Alliance has charged yoga studios and yoga teachers money for a laminated card credentialing for fifteen years, while yoga teachers bought the Yoga Alliance RYT / RYS because it supposedly meant something…. When in fact it meant nothing, especially when yoga needed it to mean something. While Virginia and New York organized their own defense, Yoga Alliance buried their heads in the sand and in the only email response I ever got from them, they claimed: “they didn’t have enough time to prepare an answer.”

Yoga Alliance credentialing is not legally binding, does not prove teachers worth, and as New York and Virginia won their yoga regulation cases in the State legislative governments, they proved without a shadow of a doubt, that the industry of yoga did not need Yoga Alliance to define their credentials or their teaching ability.

What New York and Virginia really proved to American yoga is:

#1 yoga teachers don’t need Yoga Alliance for their self imposed rules or standards – and

#2 The non-profit board of Yoga Alliance grossly abused the trust of not only their members, their employees they fired at will without any severance and also the entire yoga industry.

The board that dominates Yoga Alliance should all step down from their positions for perpetuating a hierarchy of stagnating obedience throughout the yoga industry that they claim to set standards for.

As you trustingly sign up for their services and to spread goodwill as a cohesive unit of yoga, they are selling their subscriber lists to the friendly yoga corporations that want them.

The image that nonprofits are “good” is a subjective opinion.

If you choose to settle for their laminated certification and/or buy into their perceived trade organization, you are making a decision to perpetuate a social misnomer, a biased process and a contradiction called commercialized yoga.

Accessibility Yoga | Mary Beth LaRue in Los Angeles

2012-11-30T12:22:00.001-08:00

#Accessibility Yoga | Mary Beth LaRue #LAX @mblarueyoga

I teach group classes at three local studios i absolutely adore, i also teach yoga in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and mental health facilities in the los angeles area, and have developed classes held at the down syndrome association of los angeles for teenagers, newborns, and their family members. my classes and retreats have been featured in the huffington post, national geographic traveler and la yoga. in recognition of my work, I’ve been named an ambassador of lululemon athletica, manduka, and yogaearth. I write daily on my blog, ananda, and also for mind body green, positive med, and the joy depot.

Hope to see you on the mat, in my community online, or connect over email to plan your one-on-one blissed living sessions. and, please, practice joy. every single day.

I’ve had classes where entire families are on the floor laughing as they practice Lion’s Breath or Downward Facing Dog. I’ve had classes that end with an hour of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on the Wii. I’ve had mothers cry as they see their babies start to interact and connect with them. I’ve gotten more hugs than any one person ever deserves.

Honestly, my classes with families with anyone with Down Syndrome have been some of the most meaningful classes of my entire life. There is an openness, a sense of compassion, a sense of humor. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a parent connect with their child through the lens of unconditional love.

I look forward to working with many families throughout Los Angeles, and hope to encourage teachers in other cities to reach out to this very loving community.

John B Abbott on the New York Times Article

2012-11-07T12:24:00.000-08:00

John B. Abbott on the New York Times Article

John B. Abbott of @Yoga_Journal writes about the #NYT Article

John B. Abbott writes about

the New York Times Article

"How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body"

As the former publisher of Yoga Journal, John Abbott has been a catalyst in helping yoga flourish in a safe, thoughtful and inspiring way.

John Abbott continues to play a pivotal role in expanding Yoga not only in the US, but also around the world. Today, Yoga Journal is published in Russia, Thailand, Germany, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Italy, and Spain. He has done yoga almost everyday for 30 years and I am grateful to know him.

John B. Abbott's rejoinder to the editors of The New York Times Magazine

on the article: "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body":

On Sunday, January 8, you published William J. Broad’s article on “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.”

Broad cites the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar to support his view, a fear inciting condemnation of yoga. He asserts that yoga is inherently dangerous, especially for non-athletic middle aged people. Broad cites numerous examples of individuals who have suffered serious brain damage, including strokes, paralysis, and back problems, from injuries caused by yoga and infers that these types of injuries could result from Iyengar’s instructions that, for example, in cobra pose, the head should arch “as far back as possible”, hyperextending the neck and cervical vertebrae, and in shoulder stand to push the chin deeply into the chest and to have the neck “maximally flexed against the bare floor”, at a 90 degree angle, while extending the body up into a straight vertical line. Broad fails to understand and thus misrepresents Iyengar’s instruction. Mr. Iyengar has personally instructed me in shoulder stand, head stand, and backbends with my head on the floor, all poses claimed by Broad to possibly cause serious brain damage. In shoulder stand Iyengar’s instructions are invariably to place a stack of blankets under my shoulders and to use other props, as necessary, specifically to avoid putting pressure on my neck and cervical vertebrae. The chin is never forcefully pushed deeply into the chest cavity. Rather, the torso is lifted, forming a straight vertical line form the supported shoulder joint, bringing the chest up against the chin while the neck, cervical vertebrae and head remain relaxed and cool. Broad’s failure to understand the difference between the somewhat subtle, but inaccurate instruction to push the chin into the chest and the correct instruction to raise the chest into a vertical line to meet the chin represents the difference between possible injury and receiving maximum therapeutical benefits in doing shoulder stand, and exemplifies his misunderstandings that lead to the inaccuracies that run throughout his article and to his conclusion that most people should not practice yoga.

I am the former owner and now retired publisher of the Yoga Journal Magazine, and I have practiced yoga daily for over 30 years. I have come to know and have taken classes with many of the certified yoga teachers, representing all of the well known schools and styles of yoga, most of whom are high quality people, dedicated and competent to teach yoga safely. Unfortunately, there are also too many poorly trained, unqualified, self certified so called “yoga teachers," and too many vulnerable, undiscerning yoga students, resulting in too many avoidable injuries. The problem is not the yoga, but rather the incompetent teachers and undiscerning yoga students. My experience is that yoga is extremely beneficial, physically, emotionally and mentally, and potentially life transforming. It is highly suitable for people of all ages, from teenagers to 93 year olds, as exemplified by B. K. S. Iyengar who celebrated his 93rd birthday this past December 14 and continues to practice yoga daily.

I am concerned that Broad’s article will frighten away many people for whom yoga could be a virtual life saver.

John Abbott serves as Publisher Emeritus of Yoga Journal, LLC and also served as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Mr. Abbott purchased Yoga Journal and its related business assets in November 1998. Mr. Abbott had a 20-year career as a senior investment banker at Citicorp Investment Bank. During that time he served as chief executive officer of Citicorp's Real Estate Investment Banking division in Paris, France, and as the head of Citicorp's banking operations in Uruguay and New Zealand, and held positions in New York, London, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Business Administration. He is fluent in Spanish and French.

Does yoga wreck your body?www.examiner.comAn article entitled "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body" in this week's New York Times has ignited a firestorm of controversy in and out of the yoga community.

John B. Abbott, New York Times, "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," yoga journal magazine, BKS Iyengar, William Broad,

Yoga Revolution | Frank Fitzpatrick | @YogaRevolution

2012-10-24T23:23:00.001-07:00

Yoga Revolution | Frank Fitzpatrick | @YogaRevolution

Yoga Revolution

The first CD in the Yoga Revolution series features an incredible mix of original songs by well-known pop stars and international recording artists, all brought together to promote the benefits of yoga, music and a healthy and balanced lifestyle and to support yoga and fitness programs for underserved youth.

Yoga Alliance Blog Farming and Black Hat SEO (or Fake News)

2012-10-17T23:20:00.001-07:00

Yoga Alliance Engaged in Mass Amounts of Blog Farming

(Below are the results)

I received hundreds of these notices during 2009. This is post is engineered by Search Engine specialist's to generate SEO for our benevolent friends at Yoga Alliance. I hope I generate as much slash as they paid for.

(This is what $336,325.00 buy's an American Yoga Non-profit)

This is the actual link that get's you to the Yoga Alliance sponsored fake blog post:

http://nomadssc.com/ignore-everything-else-but-clearly-not-these-vital-yoga-teachers-and-the-yoga-alliance-tips/

Ignore Everything Else, But Clearly Not These Vital Yoga Teachers And The Yoga Alliance Tips:

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Nomad

Registering with the Yoga Alliance features several benefits for your yoga professional and provides more reliability to the people which teach yoga. Their worldwide computer registry appreciates your education and understanding and your capacity because a yoga teacher. Being a associate will also support when making use of for a work, being a person in your Yoga Alliance instills self confidence and value throughout your students. Since a person in your Alliance, you should have accomplished certain regarded criteria, and people students which know your Alliance value the perform and will look for associates because educators.

Through the use of his or her selected computer registry signifies – RYT or perhaps E-RYT right after your brand upon enterprise messages, business cards and marketing, your membership will probably be instantly well-known.The Alliance gives a lot of networking options, because pioneers realize that in order to propagate the saying about the great things about yoga, their visitors need to be in a position to contact people upon a enterprise stage. The Yoga Alliance is extremely conscious those who work their very own galleries or perhaps those people who are independent yoga educators may become stop from your primary steady stream.

By way of his or her networking options, yoga experts may find out about options for even more schooling and connect to people upon a high end.As much facets of yoga tend to be recognized simply by a number of inside medical neighborhood to assist with weight reduction, anxiety, high blood pressure levels and other health concerns, getting the selected computer registry mark RYT or perhaps E-RYT right after your brand, implies you are more prone to become advised simply by an additional health professional.In case you have a site you employ for marketing reasons, people searching for a yoga teacher or perhaps facilities inside their region will also be more drawn to those with real skills.

By providing a link by way of your Yoga Alliance site, your searcher will be provided an in depth check out what the Alliance sets out to do, and receive significant information regarding the countless great things about practicing yoga on their own. It is a very good feature for anyone who has an established enterprise and for people desperate to construct patrons for a fresh yoga facilities.Signing up service fees with the Yoga Alliance tend to be low, in comparison to the many benefits they feature. Educational facilities that offer yoga teacher education can put below a a few different applications inside Yoga Alliance, provided that a quantity of conditions tend to be fulfilled by the school.

The Alliance gives 4 simple applications: Children’s yoga, pre-natal yoga that is becoming a very popular option for fresh mums, in addition sometimes 200-hour or perhaps 500-hour qualification and will take approximately 3 months once the application can be acquired. Study more other great articles relating to: stage 4 ovarian cancer, ovarian cancer survival rate and ovarian cancer stage 4

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Esther Ekhart, Yoga Teacher @EkhartYoga.com

2012-10-14T16:39:00.001-07:00

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Through EkhartYoga.com, Esther is now offering hundreds of high-quality online yoga classes so that you can enjoy streaming yoga videos at home or on the road. EkhartYoga.com offers yoga programs for beginners as well as for more advanced yoga practitioners. Full yoga classes and workouts are brought to you by some of the finest European yoga teachers.

The Mindful Body of San Francisco @themindfulbody

2012-09-04T20:25:00.001-07:00

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The Mindful Body of San Francisco @themindfulbody

The Mindful Body activities are based on trusting the wisdom of your body. The paths to health, wholeness and enjoyment are unique to each of us and can be discovered by focusing attention within our bodies where sensations, feelings, emotions and intuitions abide. Through a consistent practice of “mindful” or focused activities, we learn how to tap into our inner intelligence and make choices leading to a life of integrity, fulfillment, peace and harmony.

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@YogaAlliance's $180.670.00 Six Degrees of Karma Gonna Get #YA

2012-08-27T15:20:00.004-07:00

@YogaAlliance's $180.670.00 Six Degrees of Karma Gonna Get #YA

Six Degrees of Karma Gonna Get #YA

Yoga Alliance $180,670.00 Defense Contract Website

Actual Cost Comparison for 2010:

$180,670.00 for the Yoga Alliance Website (vs.) $199.99 for a NING.com community website.

ARTICLE TITLE: The Missile Defense "Mindbody Yoga Alliance Connection"

August 13, 2012

Rarely are stories this convoluted with layer upon layer of information that reveals more about the unraveling information... but, as some of you know - in the fiscal year of 2009, Yoga Alliance tax records show that they paid $336,325.00 for "alleged" website work from two questionable - website companies. This was particularly important because New York yoga and Virginia yoga (Yoga Alliance's home state) were going through local state taxation issues of "yoga teacher trainings taxation as "Vocational" programs."

Yoga Teachers would have been required to report their income to show that teachers make as much as - say - another vocational training job - like for instance, an automobile mechanic, a plumber, or an electrician. - Yes - kinda crazy... I know, but that's not even the half of it. Read on.

Under the suggestion of Yoga Alliance long standing board members Lynn Bushnell, Gyandev McCord, Virginia S. Cowen, Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Joanne L. Perron, and Arun Tilak - along with the medetating YA ex-president John Mathews, Yoga Alliance decided to allocate $180.670.00 to an US Military Missile guidance business from Maryland to get their new "trade association" website: YAPlus.org worked on.

Peace loving yogis from apparently (or allegedly) all over the world, have joined the Yoga Alliance (YAPlus) yoga trade organization, and inadvertently supported a defense contractor who build's missile systems for the United States Government.

If you don't believe me, verify the information for yourself right here:
http://infotek-intl.com/seaporte.html

I am sure that Yoga Alliance is once again going to claim that "they didn't know that the $180.670.00 that was spent on the trade organization website was:

just too high a price for "just" a website
or it was really going for an alternative reason or motive that has previously not been talked about publicly (like blog farming and/or electronic manipulation)
Acutally sounds like a completly in accurate price and there must be more to the story

Practice with your eyes open and ask yourself:

Is Intention what Important?

Ljubljan Yoga Conference 2012 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) @LjubljanaYoga

2012-08-27T01:42:00.003-07:00

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LYC 2012, the place, which will connect domestic and world famous yoga teachers with the knowledge and progress loving participants. The last weekend in October, 27th and 28th 2012, the term that should not be missed.

Spiritual Revolution: Steven S. Sadleir @oneguru

2012-08-24T13:57:00.003-07:00

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I am the director of the Self Awareness Institute. I conduct courses and retreats in Shaktipat and Kundalini yoga and meditation, we now focus on teacher training programs. I have six books published, my most recent is The Theory of Existence & The Science of Consciousness with Amazon.com. I am host of Enlightenment Radio on the Internet which is listened to in over 120 countries, and I appear in two new spiritual movies: Spiritual Revolution and 3 Magic Words. 3 Magic Words is premiering in Los Angeles this month.

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Yoga and the 12 Steps @Kyczy

2012-08-17T22:52:00.002-07:00

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I tell new students to listen; to their bodies to their feelings and to their breath. I say about thesame thing to new teachers. Be where you are; practice within the capacity of your breath and your body; teach the same way. Teach what you know; simply. I have so much in my mind I want to show, to teach to say that I have to remind myself that it does not all have to be done in one class. Keep it simple.

Asheville Yoga Center @Asheville_Yoga

2012-08-17T13:23:00.002-07:00

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"Yoga Alliance enhances your credibility as

a yoga professional ...."

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Yoga Alliance Blog Farming and Black Hat SEO (or Fake News)

(This is what $336,325.00 buy's an American Yoga Non-profit)

Ignore Everything Else, But Clearly Not These Vital Yoga Teachers And The Yoga Alliance Tips:

Esther Ekhart, Yoga Teacher @EkhartYoga.com

The Mindful Body of San Francisco @themindfulbody

@YogaAlliance's $180.670.00 Six Degrees of Karma Gonna Get #YA

Six Degrees of Karma Gonna Get #YA

Yoga Alliance $180,670.00 Defense Contract Website

Ljubljan Yoga Conference 2012 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) @LjubljanaYoga

- Brian

Spiritual Revolution: Steven S. Sadleir @oneguru

What you are doing now?

Yoga and the 12 Steps @Kyczy

Asheville Yoga Center @Asheville_Yoga