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LA ASTROLOGY PAGES
LA-HEAVEN TO EARTH JYOTISH FORECAST By BETHEYLA
SOUNDS LIKE YOGA
SAGNJA JAZZ
By Felicia M. Tomasko
LA PRACTICE PAGES
Dos Posturas "Para Salir De La Cueva"
By Natalie Stawsky
VIDEO/DVD REVIEWS
Vinyasa Flow Yoga by Seanne Corn
Reviewed by Felicia M. Tomasko
COLUMNS
FOUNDER’S NOTE
By JULIE DEIFE
OP ED
Nothing is Lost
By Thich Nhat Hanh
WHERE TO YOGA
A DIRECTORY OF STUDIOS & TEACHERS
WHEN TO YOGA
A CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
LA YOGA CLASSIFIED PAGES
PRODUCTS/SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE PRACTICE
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January/February 2005
Volume 4/Number 1
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FEATURE
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Yoga and Healing Addiction:
By Felicia M. Tomasko
Teresa taught yoga while still struggling with addiction, and is currently a successful yoga teacher who has helped numerous students out of denial and into recovery. Thousands like Teresa (name changed) regularly attend yoga classes, either not realizing they have a problem with addiction, or not willing to admit to one. But their yoga practice is creating an effect. Treatment specialists are taking notice and are incorporating yoga and meditation into recovery programs. Yoga helps people with addictions increase self-awareness, enhance physical and mental stamina, detoxify the body, find a new social circle and connect to their inner spirituality.
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India: Movies, Mind and Mas:
By Bob Belinoff
When we last left the issue of spirituality and film (LA YOGA November December 2004)ancient wisdom of the Vedas and the tenants of quantum physics were embracing in such contemporary movies as “What The Bleep”, and it was clear that the pharmaceutical companies were stealing our god given thunder - since the bodymind can produce by itself so many of the outcomes promised by prescription drugs. This second part of “Spirituality and Film” is a series of shorts really, about movies, mind and India.
Book Reviews:
Walk Like a Bear, Stand Like a Tree, Run Like the Wind by Carol Bassett; Opening to Meditation by Diana Lang; Yogi in the Kitchen by Elaine Gavalas; Yoga Anytime, Anywhere by Carol Blackman & Elise Browning Miller; My Daddy is a Pretzel by Baron Baptiste
Reviewed by Marie Black and Julie Deife
Film Review:
Travellers and Magicians
What, you’ve probably been wondering, is going on with film making in Bhutan?
You can find out in January when this delightful film, the first feature ever from this tiny Buddhist kingdom nestled in the Himalayas, hits Los Angeles.
Reviewed by Bob Belinoff
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Teacher Profile:
Ganga White
By Julie Deife
He saw the word ‘yoga’ scrawled on the sidewalk in front of his elementary school in Tujunga when he was ten. Someone walking by told him that yoga is what people India do, in the mountains, and they don’t need to eat. Ganga White decided he wanted to know more about yoga.
Sitting Down With: Gurmukh
By Julie Deife
Julie: What is your personal practice like?
Gurmukh: Everyday I get up at 4 A.M. For 2-1/2 hours we begin with a morning prayer, then Kundalini Yoga, and then we chant for 66 minutes. At 6:30 P.M. I finish. I also swim and run and have a practice to keep all my joints, ligaments and bones moving and aligned and energized.
Julie: I’ve been told you have an Anusara yoga practice. Is that true?
Gurmukh: Yes, it is. I usually do Anusara three days a week.
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