• crime

    The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga

    Everybody, even Ashley Dupre, thinks yoga is so great that they even make their dogs do it and stuff, but what about when the yoga instructor hypnotizes and molests your girlfriend in class? Oh it happens. More »
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    Comment by forwardmotion: Why does Seattle seem to have such a high number of creepies per capita? 10 Responses | Other threads

  • stimulus

    Obama, Biden At Stimulus Signing/Hippie Be-In: "Namaste"

    Obama chose the perfect face for his "signing the stimulus" party: a blonde, clean-cut young yuppie fellow who owns a small business. A small hippie business. More »
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    Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: I can only sigh in the knowledge that, much like Namaste Solar Enterprises, this stimulus package is doomed to failure. 13 Responses | Other threads

  • sienna miller

    Sienna Miller Takes Her Yoga Class To The Next Level

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  • tina gaudoin

    Stretchy WSJ. Editor Writing Bitchy Magazine Book

    Where does the Wall Street Journal's Tina Gaudoin find the time for her hectic trans-Atlantic lifestyle? She'll tell you, in book form! Gaudoin, the yoga mogul who edits the business paper's new glossy weekend magazine, somehow found time to write an autobiographical book about "the ins and outs of the most glamorous and bitchy of industries" (magazines!). After the jump, the semi-grammatical Amazon summary of Gaudoin's Not Just Prada: Real Life Adventures in Magazines (Paperback) [sic]: More »
    09/04/08
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    Comment by paulbibeau: I think the term is "moygul," who also officiates at a ceremony... um, sorry. 4 Responses | Other threads

  • wsj

    WSJ Secretly Quotes Editor's Own Employee In Page One Yoga Story

    It seemed strange that the Wall Street Journal—so concerned about beating the competition in hard news—would choose for a Page One story today a piece on business people who do yoga. Really, WSJ? It's a pretty standard, low-hanging "take a trend, and add business angle" story that might have more rightly been in the back pages. But their work had this added benefit: a WSJ editor owns her own yoga studio, and one of her employees gives great on-the-money quotes: More »
    07/24/08
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    Comment by MmeSosostris: Dear Hamilton Nolan, Just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading your articles/posts/whatever they're called as they're always interesting and... more » | Other threads

  • squatters

    Yoga Hippies Want Your House

    Do you have a spacious home in NYC or Greenwich, CT? Why not share it free of charge with a married couple in their thirties from Sept. '08 through March '09 while they complete their masters in "Conscious Evolution"? Still not sold? "We are looking for a live-in or house-sitting opportunity in the NYC area while we complete our Masters Degree in Conscious Evolution. We’ll care for your home while you are away, or we can live with you, in which case we’d be happy to share our fitness and coaching expertise. Beth and Alex are a married 30-something couple contributing as professional fitness/yoga/health/life coaches dedicated to raising awareness through movement, exercise, holistic health and relationships." Get to know your lovable new gurus a little better after the jump. More »
    06/08/08
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    Comment by cave princess: hippies cleaning? more » | Other threads

  • yoga

    Already all burnt out on your Christoga DVD? Newly Netflixable today is "Yoga For Indie Rockers," featuring an instructor named "Chaos" and "songs from Kevin Devine, Paulson, Jet Lag Gemini, Roses Are Red, the Bruises, Two Lone Swordsmen, House of Fools, Dillinger Escape Plan, Crash Romeo and many others." [Netflix via Lindsayism]
    10/29/07
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    Comment by Carol Gardens: Chumbawamba Chataranga Dandasana is a classic! more » | Other threads

  • shiva energy

    Yoga drama in Carroll Gardens! Three charismatic teachers left Area—the spa and children's clothing store and toy store and yoga wear and yoga studio South Brooklyn monopoly—simultaneously to start their own studio, leaving a "nasty taste" in Area owner Loretta Gendville's mouth. But maybe she should take a page from of one of her ex-employees' books and be more, you know, yogic about the whole thing: "New York is a great laboratory—when the guy on the subway won't move, how do you make that a yogic moment, instead of flipping him off?" [NYO]
    10/23/07
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    Comment by Carol Gardens: The link goes to the second page so I ended up reading it before the first. Is that deep or... more » | Other threads

  • corpse pose

    The zombie plague that a great sage once predicted descended on Williamsburg yesterday, but all they did was practice yoga. It was a promotional stunt for a book called The Zen of Zombie, it turns out. Best quote from the Metro article about the stunt: "I guess someone has to make the videos that go up on YouTube." [Metro]
    10/15/07
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    Comment by Trampoline: How much do I love you for paying tribute to Unwound (aka the best band ever) in your title? more » | Other threads

  • poseurs

    Yoga Now Available With Extra Jesus

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    Comment by Scooter34: What I liked about the clip is how Janine looked as if she were on the brink of ecstacy while... more » | Other threads

  • not getting any asana

    A Baptist minister has banned a toddler yoga class from the basement of his church, calling the practice of yoga "unchristian." This is the best thing that's happened to yoga's image in a long while. [Daily Mail]
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    Comment by Carol Gardens: What would Rodney Yee do? more » | Other threads

  • downward facing doggystyle

    The New Hotness Is Naked Yoga

    Yoga couples? Inappropriate yoga guys? No, the next frontier of things that make us ashamed to be yoginis is Naked Yoga, which is gaining in popularity. According to one website, naked yoga "teaches you that there is nothing uncomfortable about your naked body. In other words, it liberates you by making you feel 'at home with your body,'" Because regular yoga just isn't body-liberating enough? Gah. However, the same site cautions, "Nudity can be very distracting and may be a challenge to your concentration. But, with regular practice and with the help of your Yoga instructor, you can win over these distractions." What distractions might those be, we wondered? More »
    08/27/07
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    Comment by TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim: Y'all (see: Katastic... above) are too careful to ever need to cry during sex, ne c'est pas? more » | Other threads

  • getting some asana

    Yoga Classes Are Full Of Sleazy Eric Schaeffers

    The article in the Times today about "inappropriate yoga guys," as immortalized in one of the funniest YouTube videos we've ever seen (seriously, watch it and see if you don't spit out your coffee when he does that Ujjayi breath), rips off all our blinders and reveals the shocking seamy underbelly of the yoga world. Just kidding, nothing in it will particularly shock any lady who has ever a) taken a yoga class that wasn't women's or prenatal or b) familiarized herself with the work of Gawker bete noire Eric Schaeffer, who prowls gyms looking for spandex-clad ladies at their most vulnerable. But we wonder if even he has pulled some of the heinous stunts described in this article. More »
    08/23/07
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    Comment by Smirk: @ Venuscloacina Thank you for the clarification. more » | Other threads

  • my practice

    Mediabistro's offering Yoga for Writers. "Give your writing practice a jump-start by reconnecting with your creative muscles." Hmm, are those the ones between the anus and scrotum or the ones in the back of the throat? We always get confused.
    07/12/07
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    Comment by gonzosmom: I'm going to wait for the yoga class that can teach me how to blow sunshine up an editor's ass... more » | Other threads

  • hey jealousy

    Why Hating On Park Slope Just Makes Us Look Bad

    When we first clapped eyes on Samantha Storey's first-person exploration of what it's like to live in Park Slope, we automatically started sharpening our knives. That stroller shot almost guaranteed that the article would be full of easy-to-mock tropes of the Slope, and of course, it was: "open and comfortable breast-feeding is quintessential daytime Park Slope." And! "When I buy fish from the Ocean Fish Market the man behind the counter always asks after my mother." And! "My baby carrier is a $150 torture device." Yes, writing a mean post about this article would be easy-peasy. Our knives were honed! When, suddenly, we put down the whetstone and looked within. Ask the question in your best Carrie Bradshaw voice along with us: Is it time to get over hating on Park Slope? More »
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    Comment by Josh Michtom: I thought we hated Park Slope because we found it a sign of weakness that there were people who insisted... more » | Other threads

  • eric schaeffer

    Eric Schaeffer Gets A Taste of His Own Meds

    Aaaand . . . it gets weirder. While we've being doing our best to avert our eyes from the endless trainwreck spooling out in slow-motion that is Eric Schaeffer's internet-documented life, someone's been doing the opposite. Meet Sandi. She's Eric Schaeffer's stalker.
    I admit it, I'm insane. But after I saw his movie "Fall" in 1997, I was a little obsessed with him. I thought his craziness was kind of charming. And when I read his blog, none of it really surprised me. It all seemed sort of....earnest. I liked that there was actually a guy in New York City looking for a wife. I keep getting guys who want to cheat on their girlfriends with me.
    Ugh, we hate that! We totally see where Sandi was coming from, and we read about her attempts to get closer to Eric with great interest. Unfortunately, though, she failed to meet choosy ol' Eric's stringent criteria. The email he sent to Sandi, rebuffing her advances, is after the jump. More »
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    Comment by raincoaster: FracturedA, I'm gonna use "Amnesty" as my signoff from now on. more » | Other threads

  • self

    Rodney Yee: Caught In Pants-Down Pose?

    So we were all scarred forever over the weekend by images of too-happy Vows featured couple Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman's yogic lovemaking (yes, we said it: lovemaking), but we apparently missed the real story. Colleen, it turns out, isn't the first student who Rodney has chaturanga'd atop. Far from it, it fact: a 2002 lawsuit was brought against Yee by a fellow teacher at his California yoga studio, accusing him of "inappropriate behavior" with his students. A tipster points us to this 2004 Self article about Yee and the suit, in which that teacher, Susanne Bruder, maintained that Yee's student-fucking "represents an abuse of power and is unbecoming of a healer or a teacher....His refusal to accept that he needs help in this area and his attempts to blame the women involved puts more students at risk." Yee's response was classic:
    The reality is that most teachers fall in love with their students, but sex is such a small part of it . . . every relationship is unique and can't be judged . . . every once in a while, just like in therapy, there might be real chemistry between two people. It's a decent guideline, but you shouldn't be crucified for not following it.
    Yup, just like in therapy! (Shudder). More »
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    Comment by bizasizzalizzyizzo: I often find myself daydreaming of Rodney Yee in standing forward bend while I work on my proud warrior pose... more » | Other threads

  • vows

    Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee: Na-nastay.

    We were sick of Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman the from the moment we first heard of their illicit yoga love story in New York Magazine — (remember? "'[New agey blah blah],' Saidman says, sitting entwined with Yee on the floor of the shingled house they now share," etc, etc.) But we all must have done something really bad in a past life to deserve their Vows column this weekend. We mean, seriously:
    She became a devoted student of his and formed a close student-teacher relationship, which remained platonic for years. Then, in 2002 at a yoga conference in Nashville, Ms. Saidman and Mr. Yee found themselves sitting next to each other in a crowded hot tub after a day of twisting poses.
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    Comment by raincoaster: fireboy, if they're both as flexy and sensual as they claim, they could each come in their own mouths a... more » | Other threads

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