Top Posts of the Week in the Yoga World

 

Top Posts of the Week in the YogaWorld

YogaDork.com  – Happy Halloween Bikram O Lantern

Yogadork.com satisfies two needs of mine… the need to keep on what is fresh in ooooming-land and juicy tidbits about high profile yoga figure and pop culture celebs and yoga……. kind of like Yogajournal meet People magazine.   She also wrote a very introspective and heartfelt peace about the impact of Hurricane Sandy.   This is a fun yoga-centric blog to follow.

 

“Yoga B-n-r” Jelly Donut (feat. Daveed Diggs)

When Jelly Donut & Daveed Diggs are the only dudes in a class of beautiful yoga girls, they rise to the occasion. Get it?  Warning – this is NOT appropriate for work so if you are at your desk or in church then watch this later.   Another warning –  spontaneous gaffaws likely as a result of watching this video.    For those of you that take your yoga seriously and are easily offended, don’t watch.  (I guess now that I have put on these don’t watch warning, y’all just have to see it now, huh?)

 

I’m in Savasana, Dammit, Leave Me Alone! ~ Erin Mathiason. ElephantJournal.com

Elephant Journal is another progressive but non-new-agey blog with a variety of topics.  Erin explores how to connect with the ether of the universe without the teacher or other students bugging her.  Savasana is such a previous time… it feels like graduation since you work so hard to do your practice, make sacrifices to just get to your mat and then you have the most lovely float-y feeling when you finally get to this part.  As the teacher, I strongly encourage eye pillows or at least eye coverings and I also offer to spray aromatherapy on my students’s feet ( they let me know by just putting a hand on their belly).   I actually have the polar opposite needs as Erin though…. I used to love it when the teacher came by (only in the beginning of Savasana)  and adjusted my shoulders and put a drop of lavender oil on my feet. It’s pretty rare that teachers do this.  I think when I was single and not dating in New York, I literally did not have physical human contact for days at a time and I just craved the innocent non-sexual touch of another person…. ok…. maybe  I have overshared but that is why I have a different preference than Erin.

 

The Yoga Vote from YogaJournal.com

Staying as impartial as I can on my blog ( my personal Facebook page is another thing…), it’s time to use your voice at the polling station.  Can you imagine if everyone thought their vote didn’t count?  If your vote doesn’t count, then whose does?  You’re never too small too matter… just ask someone sleeping with a buzzing mosquito in the room.  This is one of the most emotionally charged elections and we can make a commitment.   You matter.

 

 Anyone else want to send me suggestions for what yoga blog posts I should put in the next curated list?