call for photos :: want some photos of your studio or practice?
Hey! Do you want photos of your practice, your teachers, your studio? Because I’m quite tired of using images of myself on this site, I’d love to shoot some for you, so long as I can use them for this here endeavor. Depending on usage, cost to you will be nothing, trade, or fee (latter [...]
meeting resistance on and off the mat
The last post and some books I’ve been reading have me asking why you do yoga. I know why I do it, and why I teach it. But sometimes I wonder if I’m teaching to your needs. The other night, in a last class of the semester, I asked students what they wanted from yoga. [...]
art & yoga: photography as a daily practice
Photography has always been something that brings me into the moment (except, perhaps, the few years I worked full time as a photog). It also makes me happy. Seeing something that strikes my interest and playing with it via the camera brings me joy. I’ve noticed that on these walks, a few shots can turn [...]
the thing about gurus: a kumaré review
Gurus have always been problem for me, perhaps my biggest in the yoga and meditation worlds. Though perhaps it’s the strange and often appropriated spirituality that bothers me, and gurus are an offshoot of that. The reason I’ve left most sanghas (communities) is because there comes a point that if you aren’t into the guru, [...]
yoga & film: kumaré & five ways
Hey, Art & Yoga people: Purva’s Kumaré opens this week at IFC, screening on Wednesday and Thursday. I first saw Purva in East is East at MTC in 1999. Seven (?) years later she showed up in my yoga classes, and is still a Sunshine fan. The documentary is getting lots of great press and [...]
yoga fun
You practice yoga. We practice Ashtanga. Like Madonna. Used to. We still do. Ouch. We do our practice and all is coming. Om. Tat. Sat. – by Kiki Flynn
yoga vacation
Karen & Angela at Bristo Yoga School I’m just back from a yoga holiday. On a whim I went on an ashtanga retreat in Edinburgh, Scotland with Angela Jamison. I’d never met her, but we’d corresponded and followed each other’s blogs for a few years, so it was excellent fun to finally meet. It was [...]
art & yoga :: five ways to leave your lover
This Saturday night at Columbia, Lukas (you know, the creator of the “emo” playlist) has a short in a film festival at Dodge. The other Dodge. Details: Saturday, April 23rd, room 511 of Dodge Hall. 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm. Lukas says: Lots of cool short films from Columbia University film students. I’m premiering the third vignette [...]
locked house this weekend
Come see Sam’s play, Locked House, this weekend. It’s on at the black box in Shapiro. Free! Support your fellow yogi. :) ,,,
stone age mind in a digital world
I didn’t intend to go on about Jon Kabat-Zinn, but while folding—okay, refolding—my laundry, I listened to the On Being Jon Kabat-Zinn show. He is just gorgeous, and if you have any interest in meditation, your mind, or your humanity, you need to listen to this. And it seems that some of you do, because [...]
art & yoga: student show
Linda has a show opening tonight at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery from 5:00-7:00pm. If you don’t have time for a break to end your week with some art and wine, the show will be up through next week (only). The LeRoy Neiman Gallery presents work from the Fall 2010 semester printmaking classes. 310 Dodge Hall, [...]
the yoga of sylvester graham
Jessica’s fantastic comment a few posts back reminded me of my undergrad thesis on health reform. Sylvester Graham was an activist of the 1800s. He had many interesting beliefs (and followers, like Ralph Emerson and Upton Sinclair), some of which parallel those of yogis. He was generally severe, believing that such things as cold cereal [...]
yoga, photography, and voice
Katya Vinkovskaya in Eka Pada Urdhva Dhanurasana (photo credit to come) . While thinking about this art and yoga thread, I came across a quote by photographer Leah Fasten, “I’m completely blown away by the parallels between yoga and photography. What makes yoga powerful and inspiring is exactly what makes a photography practice work.” This [...]
off like a prom dress
“Off Like a Prom Dress” (2010) excerpt from Kara Tatelbaum on Vimeo. I was talking about dance titles in class recently, which brings to mind one of my favorites: Off Like a Prom Dress (which reminds me of a fantastic Aussie saying, “a gownless evening strap.”) My friend and fellow teacher, Jessica Dixon Majka, was [...]
art//a lot like yoga
Brooklyn by Erin Ann Koch I ran into a student who’s not taking my class this semester. He explained that he didn’t enroll because he’s taking an acting class that’s a lot like yoga. I laughed. Unfortunately, he said, it’s not having quite the same effect. But yet again, art becomes yoga. This was just [...]
kirtan this saturday
As promised, I’ve been thinking about the connections between yoga and art. I’ve been thinking about it on and off for years, as so many of my friends, students, and peers are artists of one kind or another. I think that, for me, it has something to do with fearlessness and honesty of expression, an [...]
art and yoga
. A number of sketches have been pasted to the wall of a tunnel that leads from street to subway in upper manhattan. I love this one especially (cell phone snap). It nags me, gently and beautifully, to write down my thoughts about the connections between art and yoga. …
