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What is a Global Yogi?
Global yogi and writer Chantal Hauser reports on what it means to her to be a global yogi. Currently in Switzerland, Chantal is living a global yogi life, and doesn’t currently have a fixed home address.
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BaliSpirit Festival: A cultural crossroads
“I see the BaliSpirit Festival as a cultural crossroads, an intersection point for all these cultures to create harmony. We are all different threads that make up the same cloth,” said Rocky Dawuni, CNN’s Top 10 African artist and BaliSpirit Festival headliner. Press release from the 2012 BaliSpirit Festival discusses the musical elements of the festival and how musicians form a cultural bridge between peoples.
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Yogawoman: film review
Yoga was bought to the west from India by a lineage of male teachers. Now there’s a generation of women who are leading the way. They’re strong they’re inspiring and they’re radically changing peoples lives. From the busy streets of Manhattan to the dusty slums of Kenya YOGAWOMAN uncovers a global phenomenon that has changed the face of yoga forever.
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Ashtanga Yoga, Paris
Ashtanga Yoga Paris is a studio that specializes in Mysore style Ashtanga yoga, located in the Belleville district of Paris. Run by yoga teaching couple Linda and Gerald, it offers Mysore style and led Ashtanga classes as well as Vinyasa flow and Yin Yoga plus various teacher trainings and intensives every year.
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A prayer to answer all prayers in Nepal
TGY caught up with Amanda / Mahan Shrestha – an Australian yogini now based between Melbourne and Nepal – who runs yoga retreats and a non profit training centre in this Himalayan kingdom. Inspired by recurring dreams about a magical country somewhere far away, she first arrived in Nepal aged twenty barely having read her Lonely Planet guidebook, to take her first steps into the country she now calls home.
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What’s in your yoga lunchbox?
TGY interviews Kara-Leah Grant, founder of the New Zealand online yoga magazine, the Yoga Lunchbox. She discusses the yoga scene in NZ and also what inspired her to start The Yoga Lunchbox.
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The Spa Resort, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Imagine an oasis in tropical hinterland where you can wake up to the sounds of the forest before practicing early morning yoga on a raised platform overlooking the mountains? If this sounds like your idea of relaxation, you will probably like The Spa Resort in Chiang Mai.
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TGY Short Guide to Meditation
The TGY Short Guide to Mediation is an e-guide available for free download and includes an overview of the origins of meditation, an introductory description of a few different practice techniques, including recommended postures and some pointers on developing a regular meditation practice.
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Suryalila Retreat, Cadiz, Spain
Suryalila is brand new retreat centre due to open in March 2012 in Cadiz, Spain. Founder Vidya Heisel has been teaching yoga for thirty years, and has spent the last six teaching and travelling extensively around the globe. Vidya’s quest to find the perfect retreat centre, where nothing was missing finally brought her to put down roots in Spain and create her dream centre.
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Sunflower Retreat Holidays, Casperia, Italy
Relax, rejuvenate and rejoice at Sunflower retreat centre – in the mediaeval village of Casperia, near Rome in central Italy. This is a place where visitors can step away from their busy lives and relax and enjoy the real Italy untouched by mass tourism.
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Yoga Energetics Training in Bali with Cat Kabira
Join Cat Kabira in enchanting Ubud, Bali in May 2012. Cat Kabira’s Yoga Energetics Level One Training is an intimate, in-depth exploration and blend of yoga, shamaic practices, firewalking, self-empowerment techniques, and Cranio Sacral therapy training.
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5 Elements Training – Earth, Majorca, Spain
Join global yogi David Lurey in this, the first of his brand new Five Elements Module Trainings : Earth – on the stunning Mediterranean island of Majorca. The intention of these trainings is to offer current teachers an opportunity to grow in their teaching path in an easier format then a one month intensive course.
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200-hour YA certified training in Hawaii
Join Deborah and David of Yoga Adventure for this 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified training in Hawaii this June. Deborah and David have spent the last thirty-five years exploring remote corners of the world – studying with yogis, healers, and medicine people – and sharing their experiences through Yoga Adventure.
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Yoga & Raw Food retreat, Spain
Join Tara Kleij for a week of intensive yoga and raw food detox in the Alpujarra mountains in southern Spain. This will be seven full days of yoga and delicious vegan raw food in an inspirational setting in he Alpujrarra mountains, the last stronghold of the Al-Andalus kingdom in Andalucia.
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Yin Yoga with the Gods in Bhutan
Australian yoga teacher Amy Cleghorn uncovers the secrets of happiness while on a yin yoga retreat in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Immersed in a country whose goverment legislates for the happiness of its people Amy starts to unwind, de-stress and actually see the world around her.
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Rishikesh Photo Essay – An Indian Odyssey
Australian artist, photographer and adventurer Charlie Sublet reports from the yoga capital of the world, Rishikesh, India, where he spent some time uncovering the subtle and not so subtle spiritual undercurrents of this fascinating place.
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The Africa Yoga Project
The Africa Yoga project is a wonderful example of the yogic principle of ‘seva’ or selfless service in action. An initiative of Paige Elenson and her yoga teacher Baron Baptiste, AYP is bringing yoga to the poorest people in Kenya, giving them new hope and providing a path out of poverty.
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The TGY Beginners’ Guide to Yoga
I am pleased to introduce the first TGY E-Guide – The TGY Beginners Guide to Yoga. It is available for free download now.This guide is designed for beginner yogis and also for students who are eager to learn more about this ancient philosophy of living but don’t yet wish to delve into Patanjali’s Sutras.
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What is Meditation?
What is meditation? Meditate: focus one’s mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation. Meditate upon: think deeply about (something)…
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Beyoga, Paris, France
Beyoga studio in Paris has only been open since September 2010 but already has a following of dedicated Parisian yogis, plus a folder of press clippings that would be the envy of any Hollywood star / yogini.
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