This week the international yoga community said goodbye to B.K.S. Iyengar, a favorite teacher credited with bringing yoga to the Western world. One of his students, Carrie Owerko, a New York yoga teacher, talked about what makes Iyengar yoga so special.
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Those extreme yoga poses that feel like they’re pulling your hips out of the sockets? They might.
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Health Blog Roundup: Treadmill Habits In GIFs, A Guide To Common Yoga …
POPSUGAR Fitness has the most common treadmill habits and advice — in GIFs — to get you ready for your next visit to the gym. With so many varieties of yoga, it can be hard to know what's going to be the right experience for you. SparkPeople has you …
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[Video] Understanding Kobe's Alter-G Treadmill Training
With the start of the 2013-14 NBA season on the horizon, Kobe Bryant continues his rehabilitation from the torn Achilles tendon he suffered on April 12th. In the above YouTube video, by Heeluxe, Dr. Geoffrey Alan Gray breaks down Bryant's use of the …
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The answer, Gretchen Reynolds notes, depends to a large degree on what muscles you are trying to strengthen.
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Robert Sturman, a California artist, traveled to Kenya to document the work of the Africa Yoga Project, a nonprofit group that teaches and employs yoga teachers and conducts free classes in institutions like prisons and orphanages.
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Yoga teachers are responding to the growing number of longtime practitioners who are raising questions about the best way to continue a yoga practice into midlife and beyond.
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