Does a herniated disc necessarily need medical treatment?

A few years ago I had severe sciatica and MRIs showed that I had bulges or tears in a couple of lumbar discs. A couple of days ago, I was doing a forward stretch in yoga and since then I’ve had some pain, but only when I [...]

Elephants have been in existence for millions of years. References to them have been found in Vedas and Ramayana and were used in battles in recent times. Elephants are considered one of the most intelligent creatures to exist on planet Earth today.
Dubare Forest Reserve is an elephant capturing and training camp of the Forest Department [...]

Vinyasa Flow Yoga class being offered for ‘early birds’
STAUNTON — The Staunton Recreation and Parks Department is offering the Vinyasa Flow Yoga class 6-7:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays January through April at Montgomery Hall Park.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga DVD Preview with Seane Corne

What do you feed a Llama?

Ooops, did I say Llama?
http://www.irabragg.com/images/llama%20corner.jpg
I meant, Lama.
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Is meat out of the question or will he eat chicken?

Soybeans
Wheat grass
cheez whiz
Mahamrityunjaya Mantra: Yoga Meditation, Vedanta, Tantra

MASS CASUALTY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT SEMINAR INTRO

Here is an exerpt

from Margaret,
This is a topic that I have always had a keen interest in. I’ve been fortunate enough to have Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani as a friend and yoga mentor in my life, a man who has a rare deep understanding and insight into yoga chikitsa (yoga therapy).  Unfortunately, I have to agree that modern yoga therapy has missed the [...]

From Ariel,
I know that I speak for all yoga teachers when I say that you are not looked down upon in any way shape or form. In fact, the exact opposite is true!  You are appreciated, just like everyone else there is, for taking this step toward yoga and for doing the best that you can. Believe me, [...]

from Ashton,
Well Ashton, I can sort of relate. When I was young I used to play a lot of sports, and I can only imagine the razzing I would have gotten if I made my yoga interests public in the locker room.  How should you respond?  My advice is to let your “game” do the talking!
Yogacharya,
Director, [...]

from Linda,
These things really are what yoga is all about. Who cares how far you can bend backwards if your attitude is as rigid as steel? Just recognizing that you could have handled a situation better, or that your reaction to something could have been more yogic IS a big step.  Having that awareness is not as [...]

From Sean,
Really?  You can’t find a yoga class that won’t force you to be vegan?  Where on earth do you live?
Let me also point out that yoga advocates a vegetarian diet, not necessarily a “vegan” one.  Did you hear that?  Yoga ADVOCATES a vegetarian diet.  In fact, yoga “advocates” a lot of behaviors that may or may not [...]

from Safa,
As a man (in other words, having never been a new mother), I fear that any advice I give in this respect would be hopelessly theoretical at best.  Yoga moms around the world, please help me out on this one :O)
Yogacharya,
Driector, International Yogalayam
** see more “Yoga Hurdle” posts here …

1. THE COBRA Do this in easy stages. Lie down, face prone, legs tightly together and stretched back, forehead on the floor. Put your hands, palm down, just under your shoulders. Inhale and raise your head, pressing your neck back, now use your hands to push your trunk up until you are bending in a [...]

College asks students to power down, contemplate
(AP) — Dianne Lynch wanted to give the students of Stephens College a break from the constant digital communication that pervades their generation. So she asked them to put their phones and computers away and revive the 176-year-old school’s dormant tradition of vespers services.
Baba Ramdev -Yoga for Eye Diseases [...]

By Yogacharya
I know what it’s like to walk into a yoga class and feel completely out of place (I still do, actually, but for other reasons now ;O).  When I first tried yoga, oh way back when, I couldn’t even touch my toes … not even close!
Fortunately for me, I was persistent … and also [...]