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LA ASTROLOGY PAGES
LA-HEAVEN TO EARTH JYOTISH FORECAST By BETHEYLA
LA PRACTICE PAGES
Desire Rules
By Catherine Ingram
BOOK REVIEWS
YOGA SHORTS: YOGA ABS BY JUDITH LASATER & YOGA FOR HEALTHY KNEES BY SANDY BLAINE; WALKING WITH A HIMALAYAN MASTER BY JUSTIN O’BRIEN; WOMAN AWAKE BY CHRISTINE FELDMAN; TOUCHED BY FIRE BY PANDIT RAJMANI TIGUNAIT
Reviews by Julie Deife
COLUMNS
FOUNDER’S NOTE
By JULIE DEIFE
AYURVEDA Q & A
By Dr. Jay Apte
WHERE TO YOGA
A DIRECTORY OF STUDIOS & TEACHERS
WHEN TO YOGA
A CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
LA YOGA CLASSIFIED PAGES
PRODUCTS/SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE PRACTICE
Yoga and Ayurveda for Weight Management:
One of the most serious problems facing Americans today is inactivity which scientific studies show is directly linked to our lifestyle. LA YOGA writer Felicia M. Tomasko explores weight management from the perspective of Yoga and Ayurveda.
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June 2005
Volume 4/Number 4
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FEATURE
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Is Yoga Different for Men :
By Felicia M. Tomasko
Enter almost any yoga class in the U.S. today, and you’ll notice that the class is predominately composed of women. Even in very physical traditions like ashtanga yoga, Encinitas teacher Tim Miller reports that he sees more than three times as many women as men in class. For someone from India, this may seem surprising because throughout most of yoga’s history, yoga was a tradition practiced by, written about, and predominately developed for men.
Looking for Work at the Ritz:
By Bob Belinoff
Photos by Adam Latham
Will a change in the way we do business come from the top down or the bottom up? God or Mammon? Whether it is nobler to own the realm or subdivide it and sell it in order to play in the realm, that is the question. It is a question we all ask ourselves as we embark on our own personal journey — attempting to live consciously and compassionately in an interconnected infinitely powerful universe and attempting at the same time to participate in the good life — and increasingly any life at all, here on earth.
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Yoga Legends Say Goodbye to LA:
By Julie Deife
Yoga legends and YogaWorks founders Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty are leaving town. Their story is the stuff yoga dreams are made of. Have an idea that no one else has had, pull it off with panaché, build the business and effortlessly sell it when you have decided it’s time to move on.
The Art of Meditation:
By Julie Deife
“Throughout my life art has been a meditation. Now, as Grace informs this work, meditation has become the art.” Lynda Carré
Southern California is recognized for having a huge population of creative types: actors, fine artists, sculptors, musicians, writers and dancers. Many have achieved success without a conscious meditation practice; others are connecting or re-connecting to source by learning how to meditate. And, not a-typically, many of these people have a hatha yoga practice or are even part-time yoga teachers.
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 Sitting Down With Bikram Choudhury:
By Julie Deife
Julie: Why Bikram yoga?
Bikram: Bikram Yoga is to prevent chronic diseases, like of the heart. If you take care of yourself you are not going to get sick and that means you do exercise, and live a good life, clean life, live a full, disciplined life. But when you cannot discipline yourself 24 hours a day, that’s perfectly okay. If you take one class every day, you can clean up everything, and you can defend against everything.
 Teacher Profile: Steve Walther
By Judith Lewis
One evening, after Steve Walther had been teaching yoga for only a year or two, he ended his class with a poem. “What we choose to fight is so tiny,” it went, “what fights us is so great!”
The words were Rainer Maria Rilke’s as translated by Robert Bly, and to his students, who lay in savasana recovering from Walther’s often punishing Astanga-inflected routine, it had an immediate application to life: In those days, Walther taught in the cramped upstairs at Center for Yoga, lined his students up Mysore style and gently explained to each newcomer that his was a “very strenuous practice.” Students either consented or left, but the ones who stayed usually came back – not to show off all they could do, but to face head on what they could not. “This is how he grows,” the poem ended, “by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.” Walther’s students had got what they came for. |
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