“Think About It: Meditation can
help your brain work more efficiently”
Yoga Journal, 03.09
Sitting in meditation can be challenging. You might feel anxious
to get back to your busy day. Your mind wanders. Your foot
falls asleep. But consider this: A regular meditation practice
can make your brain work better.
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“Union Made: Strengthen your relationship
with partner yoga”
Yoga Journal, 02.09
A study in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy by Jim
Carson, a clinical psychologist and meditation teacher, and
his wife, Kimberly Carson, a yoga therapist, suggests that
couples who practice partner yoga are more content with each
other and report more joyful sex lives.
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“Stay in Balance: Natural remedies
can help keep PMS symptoms at bay”
Yoga Journal, 08.08
“When monthly preperiod cramping, moodiness and fatigue
hit, it’s tempting to pop a pain reliever, down some
caffeine and keep powering through your day. But numbing the
discomfort or giving yourself an artificial energy boost won’t
address the underlying causes of your symptoms.
Read the full article here.
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“Animal Lover: YogaFit’s
Beth Shaw lives her karma yoga”
Yoga Journal, 08.08
Before Beth Shaw ever stepped onto a yoga mat, she knew her
life’s work would be speaking for animals that don’t
have a voice.
“I remember telling my boyfriend in high school that, when
I had a lot of money, I wanted to have spay-and-neuter vans and
go around and care for the animals,” says Shaw, the founder
of YogaFit. And now, almost 24 years later, she says, “I
feel like I’m stepping into my dharma [life path] now.”
Shaw has turned her business acumen—YogaFit has certified
70,000 fitness professionals to teach yoga worldwide—into
a vehicle for promoting animal rights. In her hometown of Los
Angeles, she was instrumental in passing a new law that requires
the spaying and neutering of pets, which helps prevent the
killing of millions of unwanted animals. She backs a similar
California bill.
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“Gimme Shelter: San Francisco homeless find
relief through yoga”
Yoga Journal, 12.07
Lupe was under a lot of stress when
she started doing yoga in 2006. She'd recently become homeless
and was living in a shelter in San Francisco. She was job hunting.
She was working on her bachelor's degree. Her chronic back pain
hardly seemed worth mentioning.
When the shelter, St. Anthony
Foundation's Marian Residence for Women, began offering yoga
once a week, Lupe (who asked that her last name not be used)
decided to give it a shot. Yoga class became the one place where
she could forget her worries. She found herself lowering her
guard. Sometimes she even let herself fully relax-so much so
that she'd fall asleep during Savasana (Corpse Pose).
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“Do-gooders: The Karma Krew inspires community
involvement”
Yoga Journal, 12.07
Avril Bright of Boulder, Colorado,
considers herself a compassionate person. But she admits that
until a while ago, she had done little to channel that empathy
into action in her own community. Then she discovered Karma
Krew—a group determined to
open hearts and transform lives through karma yoga or service—and
all that changed.
“It really challenged me to step outside myself,” Bright
says. On one Karma Krew retreat, she helped paint a shelter
for abused children. Afterward, she didn’t feel right
leaving for good; she found she wanted to form a deeper connection
with the kids. “The night after the retreat, I couldn’t
sleep,” she says. “The next morning I called
the shelter and started volunteering there on my own.”
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“Centered Stage: Theatre Dojo teaches acting
and asana”
Yoga Journal, 12.07
Down dog and melodrama? For a group
of yoga-minded actors, this unlikely combination is very powerful.
Theatre Dojo in Los Angeles blends yoga, pranayama and meditation
into its beginning through advanced acting classes. In the process,
the school’s founders teach students to tap into their
own innate healing power.
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“A Troops-Carrying Torpedo: New underwater craft
may move special forces with lightning speed”
NewsMax Magazine, 11.07
The U.S. military is bringing
new meaning to the phrase “storming
the beach.”
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commissioned
the development of the world’s first troop-carrying super-high-speed
torpedo.
Article available upon request.
“Get Smart: Alternative treatments for focus
and memory”
Yoga Journal, 10.07
Intense focus may come easily on the yoga mat—but what about on the job?
Jay Lombard, chief of neurology at Bronx Lebanon Hospital and author of The
Brain Wellness Plan: Breakthrough Medical, Nutritional and Immune-Boosting Therapies,
says mental focus (and good memory) requires healthy neurotransmitters and a
calm emotional state.
Here are some herbs that may help keep you at your mental peak.
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here.
“Where is the Love? After 13 years
in queer publishing, Venus founder Charlene E. Cothran
finds God.”
Curve Magazine, 06.07
When the 38,000 subsribers to the African-American queer
magazine Venus received the January issue, they got a shock:
The mission of the magazine had changed—a lot. It was no longer for
African Americans “in the life.” Now it’s
aimed at African Americans looking to leave the life for a
Christianity that’s incompatible with out-and-proud
queerness.”
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“Considering Femme-ininity”
Curve Magazine 12.06
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“Eight Great Ways to Put a Lid on Stress”
Ikana Media, 09.05
Article available upon request
“Honey, We’re Shaming the Kids”
Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, 09.06
Makeover shows aren’t known for being kind. Part of the appeal of tough-love
shows like What Not to Wear and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is their humorous
evisceration of the participants’ pre-makeover clothes, hair, or body.
But what if you didn’t choose your makeover fate? What if, without your
consent, humiliating images of you were broadcast across the country as a mass
warning? If you’re a chubby kid, that’s just the threat TLC’s
new show Honey, We’re Killing the Kids! Poses. Here, kids are
the symbol of the obesity epidemic, and their humiliation is perpetrated under
the guise of good intentions and medical science.
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