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On page 53 of the latest Yoga Journal there’s an ad for Slim Quick Ultra Calorie Burner to lose weight. In the same issue there is a story that the healing power of yoga will cure what ails America without pills or surgery.Some magazines don’t accept advertising for products that are anathema to their magazine’s philosophy.Apparently Yoga Journal does not have those same advertising ethics.It

My Yoga Online has posted an informative new workshop video presented by Sharon Gannon: Chakras Explained. Jivamukti Yoga founder Sharon Gannon guides you through each of the chakras with detailed description. Please enjoy this intro segment prior to Sharon’s ‘Chakra Balancing Yoga’ practice.

Click here to watch: Chakras Explained

About Sharon Gannon: In 1984 Sharon Gannon and David Life created the Jivamukti Yoga Method, which is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. The JY Method emphasizes vinyasa, scriptural study, devotion, prayer, music, chanting and meditation as well as animal rights, veganism, environmentalism and political activism.

…Learn more about David Life and Sharon Gannon

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This Saturday, March 27, My Yoga Online is celebrating Earth Hour. At 8:30 pm local time, hundreds of millions of people all over the world will be turning out the lights for 60 minutes. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sidney, Australia, when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour. Last year, just two years later, hundreds of millions of people took part; over 4000 cities in 88 countries committed to turning off their power. Earth hour is now the world’s largest global initiative for climate change.

The team at My Yoga Online will all be participating this year. We hope you do, too, and we compiled our favorite tips for making it Earth Hour, every hour, below.

Top 10 Tips

1. Replace an older furnace with a new, energy-efficient model. This can boost your home’s energy efficiency by 20-30%.

2. Calculate how much energy your business consumes using this online tool.

3. Buy green electronics.

4. Use EPEAT to help you evaluate and compare electronics, based on their environmental attributes, before you buy.

5. Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV’s and game consoles, according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change.

6. Food portal CHOW  has a feature to rate the kinds of packaging used for food, based on energy used to create it and decomposition.

7. Reconsider buying bottled water. Get the facts from the David Suzuki Foundation, including how much energy is used to create them.

8. Find tons of tips on greening your home and business.

9. Check the Energy Star Canada website regularly for updates on new energy-efficient lighting.

10. Queen’s University’s Live Building Project focuses on tips for commercial spaces, but these can be applied to your home, too.

For more information, please visit Earth Hour.

For more earth-friendly insight, check out all the Green Living articles on My Yoga Online.

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Shiva was certainly testing me as I made my way to India this time, and as I later found out, also as I made my way to Africa. It literally took 80 hours for my feet to hit the ground in Chennai. Due to plane problems, instead of flying American to Brussels, then Jet Airways (an Indian airline that partners with American) to Chennai, I was put on the direct flight from Chicago to Delhi.

My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga tip video featuring Jesse Enright: Yoga and the Knee: Smart Yoga Tip. This Smart Yoga video tip focuses on techniques for maintaining stability and alignment through the knee joint.

Click here to watch: Yoga and the Knee: Smart Yoga Tip

About Jesse Enright: Jesse Enright has been a student of Yoga for eleven years and an instructor for the past nine. He began his studies with Sivananda Yoga before exploring the more dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa, the detailed alignment of Iyengar and the comprehensive intelligence of Vijnana Yoga.

…Learn more about Jesse Enright

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My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga video featuring Maya Fiennes: Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress. Maya Fiennes uses movement, breath, mantras, and chants to fortify the body’s stress defenses, energize the body, and relax the mind.

Click here to watch: Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress

About Maya Fiennes: Maya draws on her talent as a musician and performer to offer a unique style of yoga and meditation for modern living. Based on the style of yoga called Kundalini, which Yogi Bhajan first brought to the West in the 1960s, Maya’s classes are fun, uplifting, and above all inspirational. She runs regular yoga workshops and retreats at home and abroad.

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My Yoga Online has posted a new nutrition article by Carol DiPirro: Nutritious Benefits of Black Beans. In this article, Carol explains the numerous health benefits of black beans and offers simple and easy to make Black Bean Soup recipe.

Beans, beans the magical fruit! If you’re wondering how to replace meat in your menus, enjoy the rich taste of black beans. They are a good source of protein, and when combined with a whole grain such as whole wheat pasta or brown rice, provide protein comparable to that of meat or dairy foods.

Black beans are also rich in dietary fiber. For this reason, black beans and other beans are helpful foods for people with diabetes and those with hypoglycemia, because beans have a low glycemic index. This means that blood sugar does not rise as high after eating beans as it does when compared to white bread. This beneficial effect is probably due to two factors: the presence of higher amounts of absorption-slowing protein in the beans, and their high soluble fiber content. The presence of fiber is also the primary factor in the cholesterol-lowering power of beans. Black beans also contain insoluble fiber, which research studies have shown helps prevent digestive disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulitis.

Read the full article including a delicious black bean soup recipe

About Carol DiPirro:Carol has been passionate about cooking, nutrition and healthy eating since she was a child, baking her first eggless cake from scratch at 8 yrs old. Growing up in an Italian family, clean healthy eating was the furthest thing from her dinner table. She has enjoyed years of re-creating her family’s favorite meals in a lighter, healthier way. She is currently studying towards a degree in Nutrition. Join Carol’s Facebook Fan page: Chilly Peppers

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My Yoga Online has posted a new article by Melina Meza : Bring On The Spring. Melina gives you tips and ideas on how to prepare your mind and body for this upcoming season and how to embrace spring with lightening your load.

Enjoy tips and ideas on how to adapt your yoga asana practice and diet to accommodate the beauty unfolding in spring. Although the weather can really be hit or miss these days, there is enough proof in nature to confirm that spring is just around the corner, close enough to consider shifting your diet and yoga practice to complement the season.

Lighten your load
It makes sense that many of us are drawn to the idea of cleansing and purging this time of year—it’s time to lighten our load. Spring is really a time to THRIVE and it’s difficult to thrive if you feel weighted down by your inner or outer world. In order to feel your best, perhaps a little cleanse is in order to get rid of any extra winter weight, household clutter, or material possessions that keep you in the past or limit your freedom in the moment.

Here are a few diet adaptations that will help prepare your body and mind for spring:
• Decrease heavy, oily, cold, fatty foods.
• Increase spicy, bitter, and astringent foods (arugula, mustard greens, kale, strawberries, blueberries, and sprouts).
• Increase your vitamin, nutrient and chlorophyll intake with early dark green vegetables and sprouts.
• In general, eat light and eat local.

Click here to read the full article: Bring On The Spring

About Melina Meza:Melina Meza, BS Nutrition, 500-RYT, has been exploring the art and science of yoga and nutrition for over 16 years. She combines her knowledge of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, whole foods nutrition and healthy living into a unique style called Seasonal Vinyasa Yoga. Seasonal Vinyasa Yoga emphasizes the healing teachings of the ancient yogis and inspires students to adapt their asana practice, diet and lifestyle routines to better harmonize with the seasonal changes occurring in nature. Melina is the lead teacher at Seattle’s 8 Limbs Yoga Centers and is also the author of Art of Sequencing an innovative book that includes 34 unique yoga sequences and over 1,500 photos offering creative inspiration for experienced yoga teachers as well as fresh instructional ideas to jump start a home practice. More information about Melina and her offerings can be found at www.melinameza.com.

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Although yoga asana classes are open to people of any religion, Christian yoga classes are becoming increasingly popular in the Unites States. Some devout Christians find themselves uncomfortable with yoga’s vestiges of Hinduism, including the use of Sanskrit terminology and devotional chants. Others see yoga’s ability to quiet the mind as an opportunity to seek a deeper relationship with their Christian faith and enjoy classes that foster that bond.

What is Christian Yoga? originally appeared on About.com Yoga on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 22:23:03.

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When you take a vinyasa-style yoga class, you place yourself fully into the hands of the teacher. He or she decides what postures you will do and in what order. Most of the time, I enjoy this surrender of control, but I do have one pet peeve (try as I might to rise above pet peeves) and it’s this: I think I see the sequence building to a certain logical conclusion, an attempt at a climatic pose, and I turn out to be wrong. The moment passes, the pose is not taught, the class continues. Mr. Yoga Teacher, you owe me a flying crow

Flying Crow – Eka Pada Galavasana Is the Yoga Pose of the Week originally appeared on About.com Yoga on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 21:57:31.

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My Yoga Online has posted a new yoga tip video featuring Jesse Enright: Yoga and the Neck Smart Yoga Tip. Enjoy this new Yoga Anatomy workshop in which Jesse explores the nuances of the neck and how it relates to your Yoga practice.

Click here to watch: Yoga and the Neck Smart Yoga Tip

About Jesse Enright: Jesse Enright has been a student of Yoga for eleven years and an instructor for the past nine. He began his studies with Sivananda Yoga before exploring the more dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa, the detailed alignment of Iyengar and the comprehensive intelligence of Vijnana Yoga.

…Learn more about Jesse Enright

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In uttanasana, let your head hang heavy. This means you’ll probably be looking at your kneecaps. I have to remind myself to do this almost every time I do this pose. It’s amazing how strong the urge is look at your toes, thereby cranking your neck, and how much better the pose feels when you don’t.
Carry on!

Forward Bending Tip of the Week originally appeared on About.com Yoga on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 23:42:17.

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My Yoga Online has posted an informative new pose presented by Dr. Robin Armstrong: Utkatasana Yoga Pose. Learn more about the benefits, contraindications, modifications, and cautions in doing this yoga posture safely.

Benefits of Utkatasana (Chair Pose)
*Strengthens the hip flexor muscles: rectus femoris, psoas
*Strengthens the quadriceps in the front of the thighs, hamstrings in the back of the thighs, adductor muscles of the inner thighs, gluteus muscles of the hip
*Strengthens and stretches calf muscles
*Opens chest and shoulders
*Improves range of motion in ankles
*Increases proprioception (sense of position in space) in the feet
*Traditionally thought to stimulate the abdominal organs and heart

Read more about Utkatasana Yoga Pose

About Dr. Robin Armstrong
Dr. Robin Armstrong is a Vancouver chiropractor and yoga instructor. Robin blends her western knowledge gained from her experience as a chiropractor, with the ancient eastern knowledge passed through generations of yoga teachers. Robin’s classes emphasize safety, breath, alignment, and movement, while teaching students ways to strengthen and lengthen their bodies to handle the stresses of our modern lifestyle. If you are coming to her as a patient, expect to be prescribed yoga! Learn more about Dr. Armstrong at www.stayactive.ca

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Authentic Yoga is an iPhone/iPod app from alternative medicine expert Deepak Chopra and yoga instructor Tara Stiles. Though there are some technical issues with this hot-off-the-presses app (rumored to be fixed by the even hotter-off-the-presses update), the authority of these teachers and the quality of their video instruction sets this app apart from previous yoga apps.

Authentic Yoga with Deepak Chopra Featuring Tara Stiles originally appeared on About.com Yoga on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 23:29:30.

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