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LA ASTROLOGY PAGES
LA-HEAVEN TO EARTH JYOTISH FORECAST By BETHEYLA
LA PRACTICE PAGES
Death and A Living Yoga Practice
By David E. Moreno
BOOK REVIEWS
Turn Stress Into Bliss: A Proven 8 Week Program for Health, relaxation, and Stress Relief by Michael Lee; the I Ching: Book of Answers by Wu Wei; Positioning Yoga: Balancing Acts Across Cultures by Sarah Strauss; Neti: Healing Secrets of Yoga and Ayurveda by Dr. David Frawley
Reviews by Julie Deife and Felicia M. Tomasko
COLUMNS
FOUNDER’S NOTE
By JULIE DEIFE
AYURVEDA Q & A
By Dr. Jay Apte
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
Sitting Down With:
Interview with Jerry Brown, Oakland Mayor, former
Governor of California, three time presidential candidate, running for
California Attorney General 2006. Is he one of us?
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Untangling Meditation: Meditation is often a forgotten piece of our yoga practice. We are also encouraged to learn to meditate in order to manage stress, even if we don’t have a yoga practice. But how do we know which meditation practice to learn? What are the differences in traditions, techniques and promised outcomes?
Research Column. Introducing a new section aimed at providing the latest in scientific research on yoga, meditation and Ayurveda.
Iyengar Yoga. B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the foremost influences on yoga in the West. LA YOGA will look at the system, how it has influenced yoga and how it’s viewed in Southern California today.
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July/August 2005
Volume 4/Number 5
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FEATURE
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It's Not Just What You Eat, But When. Yoga, Ayurveda and Weight Loss :
By Felicia M. Tomasko
“Lose that spare tire!” cried the cover of a recent issue of Time magazine. Inside statistics reiterated that nearly two-thirds of American adults are overweight, with a dangerous 30 percent classified as obese. Weight management is big news nationwide.
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Season of Fire: How to Handle Pitta this Summer:
By Felicia M. Tomasko
Summer is the season of long days and intense sunlight. In the Ayurvedic cycle of the year, it is the season of the fiery pitta dosha. Seasonal changes create fluctuations in day length and sunlight that have a profound effect on us. No matter where you live in the Northern Hemisphere, summer’s radiating sun at an intense angle causes an accumulation of the pitta dosha, or Ayurvedic quality of fire in both our bodies and minds.
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Workshop Report | Joan White May 27-29, 2005
B.K.S Iyengar Institute of Los Angeles:
By Laura Faye
Signing up to attend a workshop can be a game of chance. If you’re in the mood for rest, the class may go overboard with chataranga dandasana, or you might crave energetic postures and the teacher decides to discuss philosophy.
Selfless Service| Janice Belson of Medicines Global and Outdoor Youth Ambassadors:
By Laura Faye
Knowing that all is one is not the same as oneness in action. While many yogis believe in interconnectedness, only the rare individual can take this primarily intellectual concept of unity and apply it. Acts of seva (selfless service) emanate naturally from those who have the experience of self as whole.
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Sitting Down With Brother Brahmananda:
By Julie Deife
Julie: Did you ever meet Paramahansa Yogananda?
Brother Brahmananda: No, he left his body in 1952 and I was still in Philadelphia. I didn’t come to these teachings until 1963, when I read the Autobiography of a Yogi while I was in law school.
Julie: And that did it.
Brother Brahmananda: Yes, it did. At that time I was an atheist. About halfway through the book, I kind of turned my eyes up and said, “Excuse me.”
Teacher Profile: Lanita Varshell
By Julie Deife
In this age of specialization, it would only stand to reason that someone has carved out a niche for teaching “plus size yoga.” Lanita Varshell, does just that, but not because it might be a good marketing ploy at a time when the American public is trying to figure out what to do about a growing health risk labeled obesity, rather because she is a plus size herself and knows from experience that yoga can change your life. |
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