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Ensure your yoga practice keeps you safe and healthy
By Deb Radloff
Are you new to yoga? Have you been going to a yoga class, but find that you experience persistent or even increasing pain? Have you had a bad experience with a particular teacher who either gave you an adjustment that didn’t feel right, or were being told to put yourself in a pose that you were not ready for? Read more »
Getting Love-Powered
The Love-Powered Diet, in its 3rd re-incarnation
By Deb Radloff
Bo and I had the great pleasure of a veggie-filled evening in the beautiful Peter Max studio, where the beaming Victoria Moran (author, life-coach, animal lover, activist, and avid yogi) was having her book re-release party for The Love-Powered Diet, a book that has been published, and printed twice before, each time coming back Read more »
Miss Bite Size Goes Iyengar:
By Bo Chang
Kofi Busia Iyengar Workshop
YogaWorks Downtown NYC
138 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
A weekend of Iyengar workshop with my teacher’s teacher sounded good to me until I was in Dandasana again. My legs were about to detach themselves from my torso and stomp out of the studio on their own. My entire body started to shake and tears welled up. Oh, for the love of Krishna, I’m sitting. SITTING! Read more »
Launder My Karma
An interview with Dada J.P. Vaswani revered spiritual leader and guru
By Deborah Radloff
Swami Dada with Deb and Jim of Bite Size Yoga
When those of us in the yoga world think of Gurus, we think of the great yoga teachers: Satchidananda, T. Krishnamacharya, Dharma Mittra, B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and the list goes on. However spiritual teachers like Dada J.P. Vaswani, offer an insight to the other limbs of yoga that we westerners often ignore: spirituality and connecting to the lord. Dada J.P. Vaswani speaks universally to all religions. He believes love in God (whatever god that may be) is the most important thing, the rest is just detail. Read more »
Ashtanga (Definition, Please!)
By Bo Chang, aka Miss Bite Size
First, Miss Bite Size would like to clarify this: When folks talk about ashtanga yoga, they may not be talking about the same thing!
When you go to practice Ashtanga on a mat in a studio or a gym, you’re practicing Pattabhi Jois’s system of Ashtanga Yoga, a school of Vinyasa Yoga. It’s a specific school of physical practice (an awesome, challenging and beautiful one).
The ashtanga I’m talking about here translates as “eight limbs” and comes from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Read more »
Jim on Swami Dada
By Jim Catapano
Due to my (hopefully soon to be history) current career in advertising, I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make my date with Dada at IYI. I am so grateful that I did, because it was an honor and a privilege to be in his presence and have my question answered by him. I was particularly curious about Dada’s view of Yoga in the Western World, Read more »
Dating Guru
By Dayle Pivetta
Have you recently found yourself fretting over which yoga outfit you’re going to wear to practice, how your pants make your butt look in down dog, or if your favorite mala brings out your eyes, or just makes you look fat? You’re not alone- you have a yoga crush… who hasn’t? And probably, not just with any yogi, but with your favorite yoga teacher! Never fear, the dating guru is here! Read more »
