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Head of Canada's first yoga community in Vancouver
The head of Canada’s oldest yoga community, the Yasodhara Ashram in Kootenay, B.C., is coming to Vancouver this weekend to discuss her autobiography. The book, Carried by a Promise (Timeless Books),...
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Vancouver man becoming global Hindu teacher
Jeffrey Armstrong, of Vancouver, is making a big name for himself as a high-tech teacher of contemporary Hinduism.Armstrong has followed up his webcasts, corporate presentations and extensive DVD...
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Big-name yoga guru in Vancouver March 15
One of the world’s most well-known yoga teachers is coming to Vancouver as part of a 10-city world tour. Thousands often attend the presentations in Europe of Swami Maheshwarananda, known as...
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Building bridges between yoga and Catholicism
Building bridges between yoga and Catholicism; Father Joe Pereira promotes the view that ‘accessing the wisdom of the body’ fits in with the teachings of Jesus Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES Saturday, October...
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Yoga spirituality subsumed by sex, greed and exercise mentality
{See related link on March, 2011, visit of noted yoga teacher, Swamiji) LOST IN TRANSLATION: Yoga culture, mass culture: A movement’s spiritual and ethical core has been subsumed by modern obsessions...
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Fifteen years ago, how did I do at predicting trends in spirituality?
On the eve of 1995, I went out on a limb and made 10 predictions about spiritual trends to watch for. I have my own feelings about how accurate I was. What do you think? You could rate each prediction...
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Art and life: yoga comes to the Contemporary Art Gallery
The Contemporary Art Gallery is blurring the line between art and daily living in Vancouver when one of the city’s leading yoga instructors leads a session surrounded by the vibrant drawings of Guo...
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Don’t live in ‘The Now.’ Include past and future
It may be dangerous to your health to live in only ‘the Now,’ as proposed by many Buddhist teachers and Eckhart Tolle, Vancouver-based author of the incredible best-seller, The Power of Now. A new...
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Lululemon (Ware)House Party kicks off in Vancouver
Vancouver yogis can get their Lululemon fix at the warehouse sale Jan. 18-20 at BC Place. Shoppers can expect long lines and crowds at the three-day sale, but their patience may pay off as prices on...
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Does Lululemon owner have Messiah complex?
The front window of the original Lululemon store, in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, has been sporting an odd slogan. Some are finding it funny I suspect. Others are finding it a bit off-putting....
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‘Yoga chaplain’ blends East with Christian West
Bethel Lee is a quintessential West Coast spiritual hybrid. Born in Seoul, Korea, she has travelled the world and now lives in Vancouver, where she teaches yoga and works with the United Church of...
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Why some Christians think yoga is ‘idolatrous’
North Vancouver Rev. Ed Hird is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He’s also an engaging fellow with a lively mind and blog. He so strongly disagreed with the idea of same-sex blessings that he and his...
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Indian crusader against corruption given $100,000 prize in Vancouver (video...
UPDATE: Video added. More info. below.) Anna Hazare’s home in a village in India is smaller than the hotel room in which we met in Vancouver. But somehow, this unassuming 75-year-old man in all-white...
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Saving traditional yoga from ‘the circus’
In a world where selling yoga pants can make you very, very rich, 69-year-old Manju Pattabhi Jois hearkens back to “old school” gurus — those who choose their students rather than the other way round....
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Upside-down dog and other cool tricks
Talk about a head rush. That’s what aerial yoga felt like for me. Well, after the sea sickness wore off. I recently tried out yet another yoga trend, this one reminding me of the words from a...
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Owning our Health: Laughter’s tie to innate joy is truly medicinal
Have you had a good laugh lately? I mean a really good – deep within – laugh? Years ago, I ran across a group practicing “laughter yoga” and found myself fascinated. As I watched, I couldn’t help but...
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Owning our Health: Adventures to better health, new yoga pants not required
Having just signed up for a Bikram yoga class, my friend Deb went off to the trendy sports clothing store downtown to buy herself some hot new yoga outfits. However, what she had not realized is that...
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Vancouverites get behind National Yoga Month to improve workplace wellness
By Mirey Faema. “The wellness of employees is the wellness of the company; the very strength of a company is its employees”.- Dario Calvaruso, owner of Holistic Wellness & Yoga in Hong Kong....
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Finding the Om in “Mom”
By Sarah-Jane Steele. The “work” of yoga is finding a union between one’s mind, body and spirit. But many a yogi who has reached this seemingly unattainable union likely did not have their children...
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Stop and smell the ‘poses’
By Sarah-Jane Steele. They look statuesque. Some look difficult. Some look impossible. Some look absurd. None of them look particularly spiritual. Postures. One of the biggest challenges of the new...
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