Curious what goes on in a Bikram class? Miss the hot-and-sweaty routine? Here’s a three-minute version of everyone’s favorite 26-pose series. Watch the ribs and bellies dance! via my favorite Tumblr blog, Fuck Yeah Yoga

Yoga, Inc., “the documentary that asks whether yoga can survive big business with its good karma intact,” is available for free viewing online. It reviews the entrance of yoga to the West, its secularization and marketing, yoga ethics, guru reverence, and the business of running a studio. It spends a long time on Bikram’s copyright [...]

Here’s another view of a Jump Back, in super slow motion: It’s a Crow pose, almost a Tripod Headstand, in the beginning. Great video. I think this guy is overusing his lower back. It looks like he collapses into his low back a little when he lands. And watch the curve of his spine from [...]

I quit Ashtanga because I hated the jump backs so much. Obviously I wasn’t doing them like this: So graceful! No “thunk” sounding right into the lower back. (Ok, there’s no sound in the video. I can pretend he’s perfect, though.)

I’m kind of overwhelmed by green lately. The movement. I was better at recycling and volunteering and changing the world before there were signs and ads and celebrities telling me to do it. Like veganism, being green can turn into a whole neurotic set of shoulds and guilt. Like conspicuous consumption, being green can become [...]

“The whole system that we live in drills into us that we’re powerless, that we’re weak, that our society is evil, that it’s fraudulent, and so forth. It’s all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we cannot understand who we truly are, where we are going. There [...]

This is cracking me up: I need to invent a Bollywood Superman pose now, some sort of wide-legged hands-on-hips shaking of the belly. Thanks to Boing Boing via Chris Blattman via my friend Hari.

I’m staying with my older brother and his darling wife this week for the family Xmas get-together. They have more video games than God, and one of those systems is the Wii Fit! I’ve only played a Wii once, and that was the cooking game where you have to turn and shake the controller to [...]

My boyfriend told me about oil pulling, an Ayurvedic technique for cleansing where you swish unrefined sesame oil between your teeth for 10 minutes a day. It’s supposed to clean out the lymph glands and have all sorts of great side effects. But what I REALLY NEEDED was a music video to convince me! I [...]

Another great video, payback from my dad. Welcome to the singularity. Apologies that the music is 9 years behind the video.