by Karen Macklin | Exclusive Interviews
Jill Miller is a Los Angeles-based yoga teacher who created a style of yoga called Yoga Tune Up. Strongly influenced by a background in dance, pilates, and bodywork, Jill talked to Pranamaya about preparing the body for asana and the importance of massage and...
by Karen Macklin | Regular Posts
I spent this past weekend again at the incredible Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree: Four days of chanting, yoga-ing, and dancing in the desert. It was an amazing, loving, exuberant, and healthy atmosphere. But it was also, like many large yoga events these days, a bit of a...
by Karen Macklin | Regular Posts
In modern culture, choosing a style of yoga is akin to strolling through the ice cream section at the local co-op natural foods grocer. The choices are many and everything looks good. But why are there so many styles of asana these days? And does it truly matter which...
by Karen Macklin | Regular Posts
A couple of weeks ago, there was an article in The New York Times about a new campaign called Take Back Yoga introduced by the Hindu American Foundation. You can read the article yourself, but the gist is that this group is trying to get Americans to acknowledge that...
by Karen Macklin | Regular Posts
For years, I always thought of yoga as a solitary act. Even when I was practicing in a room full of people, I kept my attention focused inward and my concentration on my own mind and body. So, on the random occasion that a teacher would tell the class to partner up, I...
