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Tits & Ass In A Mala: Queen Of The Cage ~ Maya Devi Georg
Maya Devi Georg In 2013 I wrote an article called Tits & Ass in a Mala: Yoga in the Media - it was obviously about the media and its portrayal of…
6 Ways to Tell if Your Favorite Celebri-Yogi Teacher Can Actually Teach ~ Maya Devi Georg
You’ve saved your pennies to attend the latest conference, mainly to take a class with your favorite celebri-yogi teacher. This celebrity teacher may have been featured on the cover of…
Tits & Ass In A Mala: Yoga In The Media ~ Maya Devi Georg
I’m getting really tired of seeing half-naked (or completely naked) women in yoga magazines and on yoga web sites. The images themselves are of young white women. They are depicted…
Leadership? A Review of The Lululemon-Yoga Journal Leadership Discussion ~ Hari-Kirtana Dasa
I had the good fortune to score one of only a hundred seats for The Practice of Leadership, a panel discussion held at the Yoga Journal Conference in New York City…
Fear & Loathing on the Yoga Mat ~ Maya Devi Georg
There’s a lot of talk about spiritual jealousy, but our spiritual sides have very little to do with it… We’ve all experienced it. A beautiful young woman joins a class you’re…
Yoga Teacher or Predator? ~ Chris Kiran Aarya
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about a number of sex scandals over the past few years involving male teachers sleeping with, sexually assaulting, and raping their…
Yoga Is Inherently Feminist ~ Maya Devi Georg
Yoga is inherently feminist And by feminist, I really mean humanist. The first yoga teacher was Shiva. The first student was Parvati. It was a lowly fish that overheard the teaching…