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things to know before you sign the lease for your yoga studio
the language of the lease Aspiring yoga studio owners have a variety of challenges to face in the process of realizing the dream of a...
choosing your yoga trade title wisely
the name game What’s in a name? In business, basically everything. So when it’s time to select your business name, do it carefully, keeping in...
five tips for naming your yoga business
Choosing the right name for your yoga business is crucial. It is the first thing anyone learns about your business and the first exposure they...
how to choose your food and chef for your yoga retreat
enhancing your next yoga retreat through food In the Zen tradition it is widely believed that the most important element within a yoga retreat setting...
the tenth door – a yoga adventure
a book reviewThe Tenth Door, An Adventure Through the Jungles of Enlightenment is a yoga classic. Courageous, surprising, and more than enlightening, Michele Hebert exemplifies...
to live a day like it's your last
The voice that exuberantly declares, “live every day like it’s your last,” unknowingly sets a perilous stage that ultimately, removes us from a conscious way...
1 Giant Mind | Interview with Jonni Pollard
Meditation One 1 Giant Mind Jonni Pollard1 Giant Mind is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and research into the effects of ‘Eyes Closed...
conversations with god
a review of the movie from book author neale donald walshFrom The Spiritual Cinema Circle and the producer of What Dreams May Come, came Conversations...
the secret film review
a Rhonda Byrne’s book – (2006 Film)Surely by now you’ve heard the buzz, read the reviews or caught an interview on TV, right? We’re talking...
Energy Integrity for Yoga Teachers
How a Better Awareness of Energy Can Support your Health and WellnessThe yoga practices of asana, pranayama and mudra are geared at accessing the energetic...
sitting down with meghan pappenheim
The BaliSpirit ethos is one of harmony. Co-founder Meghan Pappenheim has an ardent passion for all things yoga, dance, music and the group’s successful Festival...
the birth of a community
A Vibrant and Diverse Community That Has Supported Us From the Very StartAs Yogi Times celebrates 25 years of service to its readers, we look back...
body confidence and compassion
Today as I write this article, I have three magazines on my desk with claims of the ultimate workout to get me in bikini shape....
summer solstice sadhana in new mexico
to wake or not to wakeIt is 2:45am during the week of Summer Solstice in the mountains outside of Espanola, New Mexico, and I am...
zen and the art of parenting
about the joy and fulfillment awaiting those who take the plungeFear and insecurity can make the idea of being a parent intimidating, but there is...
the way we look
exerciseYou can walk by the same landscape for a number of years, yet one day, you realize an important detail, til then unnoticed. This happens with...
yogiraj gurunath siddhanath treks the world spreading the teachings of kriya yoga
A comfortable lounge in a space-aged building at Los Angeles International Airport might seem a strange place to encounter a guru. One might expect a...
confessions of a cheating yogini
Cheating ConfessionsHow did it start? I can’t really pinpoint one specific moment when I fell in love with Mat. It was the kind of a...
the food and charm of chef suzanne goin
simple clean and tasty!From some of her earliest childhood memories, Suzanne Goin had visions of food that were predicated by her family’s deep affinity to...
empowered vulnerability
it’s ok to cry, isn’t it? As a Los Angeles based psychotherapist and yoga teacher, I travel in many spiritual circles which espouse and sometimes...
