Tag: Yoga
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10 Online Stores for All Your Green Product Shopping
From gardening supplies and baby toys to pet products and eco-furniture, check these sustainable online shops before you hit the streets.
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5 Yoga Retreats We Want to Go on Now
From coastal getaways to desert hotspots, these retreats sooth the body and soul.
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I AM. Yoga Mat Bag Weaves Function, Style and Social Change
I love any yoga accessory that positively integrates the law of karma.
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Posing Against PVC On Your Yoga Mat
Is there PVC and other toxins in your yoga mat?
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How Yoga Can Harmonize the Body & Planet
While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.
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Quote of the Day: Pico Iyer on the Joy of Quiet
Quiet, as Iyer sums up in his beautifully serene New York Times editorial, is a commodity gaining greater ground in this LinkedIn age of Facebook, Twitter and smart phones.
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Use Etsy to Find Local and Handcrafted Holiday Yoga Treats
My flame for the small-business and artisan supporting marketplace was re-kindled surfing the 263 items -- from mat bags, to hand-knit yoga socks, calming wall art and more -- made locally in Brooklyn alone.
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Yoga: A Bad Back's Best Friend
I was just one of countless Americans, "spending $50 billion a year on medications, physical therapy and related costs" for back pain alone as the New York Times' Well Blog reports. That's until I met yoga. A recent study shows why.
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Green Gift Guide: The Health and Wellness Guru
From a bike share membership, to embroidered yoga mats to a high-tech workout tracker, find a gift for your favorite health-nut here.
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Quote of the Day: Robert Thurman on Finding Peace for Effective Activism
Photo: kudumomo/Flickr Once we find inner peace, any small bit of it, baby step by baby step, we feel much better, even joyful and energized. Then whatever activist work we do to achieve outer peace in any situation comes from an effective place and
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Take An Energy Restoration Retreat This Summer - Unplug From Electronics, Plug Into Your Self
Raise your hand if you're connected to the Internet or using your computer more hours in the day than not. My hand is up.
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Best of Green: Travel and Nature
What's the best twitter feed by (yes, you read that right) an endangered animal? What's the most intriguing new species, the most powerful nature documentary, the eco travel tools that you must have before you hit the road? It's hard to narrow down the b
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Wanderlust Yoga Festival Founders on Mindful, Murky Green Event Planning (Interview)
How do you party like a yogin? Wanderlust is not just the largest multi-day yoga event in the world, it's now a key player in the larger U.S. festival market.
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The Self-Compassion--Sustainability Connection (i.e., Take it Easy)
If "self-love" or "self-compassion" sounds sort of hokey, I don't blame you. The often hallow-sounding words can conjure up images of hippies and yoga instructors wearing flowing white gauzy garb. (This is not to disparage,
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Lie Down With Spoonk, Wake Up Stress Free
Two years ago, funny-looking mats started appearing in the windows of all the health food stores in Europe. The mats were in mellow new-age colors - sunburst orange, Mediterranean turquoise - and they were covered with tiny
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Yoga for Unity: Can Sun Salutations Resolve Tensions in Post-Conflict Areas?
It's hard to picture some of the most impoverished, and at one point violence-prone, regions in Kenya being turned into yoga studios, but that's what Yoga For Unity aims to do—and is starting to make happen. On December
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Study Links Meditation to Telomerase, An Anti-Age Enzyme
It's always awesome when meditation is given a nod by science and shed
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Yoga: It's Not About Ownership, It's About Origins
Editor's note: Though TreeHugger normally writes about the environmental aspects of yoga, over the weekend Jessica wondered whether a religious group can really own yoga, referring to an awareness campaign about the origins of yoga by the Hindu American
