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If you’re a yoga teacher and an Internet enthusiast, you can use cyberspace as a teaching tool. How? You can teach and reach a wider audience by making yourself accessible online through your own personal yoga website. The Internet is a unique tool that allows teachers and students, who have never met face-to-face, to interact and share their love for yoga on a global scale. Your yoga website can contain various pieces of information from yoga classes, including yoga poses and yogic philosophy,… Continue

Donna Karan might be more well-known for her fashionable designs, but she also has another admirable passion: yoga and how it can be used in therapy. She has been practicing yoga and meditation for several years now and is a staunch supporter of the use of yoga for therapy, especially in hospitals. In a recent interview it was revealed that she had donated over eight hundred thousand dollars to the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City in order to help cancer patients through the use of yo… Continue

Now yoga practitioners and gaming addicts can now combine their passions with the upcoming release of Yoga for Wii™, which is set to be out in stores by October of 2009. Yoga for Wii is being developed by DreamCatcher Games and JoWooD Productions, who are planning to let it be used along with the Wii Remote™ and Balance Board. Yoga for Wii will come with common yoga exercises that are explained every step of the way by yoga instructors in the game. It’s a great way for both yoga practitioners an… Continue

Have you ever tried practicing yoga with a partner? Well, why not try practicing yoga with your dog as your partner? A new trend in yoga today is called “doga”, which allows dog owners and their pets to practice together. Doga instructor Suzi Teitelman defines doga as the “synchronized experience” between a yogi and his or her dog. The dogs, no matter how big or small, are integrated into the poses which includes stretches and massages. Doga is said to improve the relationship of the owner and t… Continue

Tired of the long commute to and from work? Feel like working in your pajamas today? Well, for those who’d like to work and save time and energy at the same time, working from home is a great way to do both. Nowadays, we’re learning more and more about how important it is to lessen work hours to do other things we want to do, such as practice yoga. How many times have we gone to the office, finished work early, and then spent the rest of the time doing nothing because we had to stay until 5 pm?… Continue