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TeleYoga Wants You and Your Friends to Do All the Minutes of Yoga You Can Muster
In a mere week, the Million Minute Month begins! To cheer us all along, we've gathered powerful forces for good in the form of Spirit Guides. Today, a big welcome to Spirit Guide Christine Miller, Founder of TeleYoga, whose sweaty minute encouragement begins...now. On the line: A free private TeleYoga session. All you have to do is rally a few friends as fellow challengers. Here's how it works:
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Practical Eating
Skyr Vs. Fage: Yogurt Deathmatch
All yogurts are not created equal. Some are champion snacks or even meals, and others are sugar-soaked goop. One serving of my childhood favorite, Western Family lowfat blueberry yogurt, contains 44g of sugar, versus 9g in an equally if not more delicious serving of Total Fage. So no more Western Family for me. Which brings us to the topic at hand: yogurts' nutritional content, specifically high-end, thick-style yogurts.
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Elementary
The New Jude Law Workout: Throwing Oranges at NYU Students
You'll recall that Jude Law, currently of Sherlock Holmes fame, likes to do yoga on his balcony, and NYU students like to watch. Well, Law told HollywoodLife that the "spies" really upset him. "Where I come from Peeping Toms have things thrown at them," and so Jude began hucking oranges and apples at the kids, with at least one kid saying that Dr. Watson had managed to take out a window. "It was so loud, and it was really scary," said one Amanda Katz. For the record, Jude Law is from the exclusive Blackheath section of London, home of toughs like Sir Richard Branson and a long line of ministers and world-changing philosophers like, oh, John Stuart Mill. Seems safe to say that Mr. Mill, author of On Liberty, might not condone young Mr. Law's post yoga outburst. Mill's famous "harm principle" holds that each individual has "the right to act as he wants, so long as these actions do not harm others." Hurling produce several stories up at obnoxious NYU students and their dorms would not seem to fit the bill.
My Body
Starlee Kine On Fruit And The Landmark Forum
Starlee Kine is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on "This American Life" and "Marketplace." Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is currently working on a book about self-help titled, "It IS Your Fault".
Health stresses me out. I don’t feel very healthy, and I don’t have health insurance. It seems like it’s hard to get healthy. My sister is obsessed with health and nutrition. She endlessly works out. She wakes up at five in the morning and goes to Starbucks. Then she goes to the gym and does boot camp. She’s gluten free, dairy free and soy free. She really obsesses. But I don’t regularly do anything healthy. I mean, I don’t eat unhealthily. I don’t eat fast food. But I don’t eat anything nutritious. I don’t eat greens every day. I’m afraid of fruit. I don’t like pulpy, sticky kinds of fruit. I don’t like to have them on my plate. If I’m sitting at a table and someone’s eating fruit, I have to position my glass so I don’t see it.
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New York
Celebrity Fitness
Sara Rue's Half Marathon Hurts My Lady Parts
I tweet, I admit it, but you know what I don't tweet about? My underpants. I personally prefer to keep the public underpants updates to a minimum. You know who doesn't? Sara Rue, Jenny Craig Spokesperson du jour. Yes, I am now imagining Sara Rue's vagina, and it's not my fault, she totally brought it up.
Her new skinny self ran a half-marathon over the weekend, along with her personal trainer. After the race she tweeted about having forgotten her undies at home, and how running commando is the only way to go.
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Los Angeles
Place Review
Got 15 Minutes?
There are no group classes, steam rooms, juice bar, or tanning bed. Peter Cerqua wants you out of his gym in 15 minutes. Seriously. Welcome to the budding 90 Second Fitness empire: Cerqua's got locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Newtown, PA. (huh?) AND a new 90-Second Fitness book!
Clearly another fitness gimmick like the Tony Little's Ab Lounge, right? Check out this man's YouTube marketing. He's the Tom Carvel of fitness clubs.
Well, I did it. Last year. For like four weeks. And by the end I was 3 lbs. lighter than I've ever been since college.
New York
Vent About “Easy Tone” Shoes
I’ve been meaning to write about this for awhile now, but after seeing another one of the infuriating commercials this morning while I was on the treadmill, it just had to be done.
Has anyone else seen the Reebok commercials for these shoes? If not: http://www.reebok.com/microsites/easytone_reebok/
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Poet Laureate
Mohawk’s Got the Rants
Maybe I’m channeling msh258 here, but something about today seems like it deserves a rant or two. Lo and behold, I refresh my Yahoo news page and read this lovely article about new Wisconsin legislation that’ll slap a 10k fine and some jail time on health teachers if they teach kids about contraceptives because a) it’s illegal to have sex if you’re a minor in Wisconsin (HA!) and b) knowing how to have safe sex will “contribute to the delinquency of a minor.”
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Celebrity Fitness
The Duchess of York Owes Her Trainer £65,000
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is in a heapload of financial trouble, reports the Daily Mail. Sources say Prince Andrew plans to pay off about £1.5 million of her debt, which has been steadily mounting for some time. Among the unpaid bills is £65,000 outstanding to her personal trainer. That's like $102,000. If sessions are $100 each, that's 1,000 personal training sessions. That's like five years of personal training. That's, like, a really long time to go without paying your trainer.
Yoga Trends
Nude Yoga Hits...Salt Lake City?
Nude yoga is old news in New York. (There's still time to sign up for Hot Nude Yoga's summer retreat!) But it's brand new to the fair state of Utah (last seen hosting the squeaky cleanest pole dancing competition in the lower 48). The AP reports today that thanks to pioneering Utah yoga instructor John Cottrell, SLC yoga enthusiasts can now enjoy twice monthly nude classes (a reasonable start, though a far cry from NYC's daily offerings). While the classes are supposed to be all about fitness, the AP reporter who attended noted "an undeniable sexual charge...in the room, making the exercise at times painfully weird and embarrassing." Having never been, I can't comment. Though I can certainly think of something even more painfully weird and embarrasing: Hot Nude Yoga Private Yoga Lessons. Awk-ward!
Other Places
Day 9: I’m Usually Not a Morning Person
I have tried for years to wake up early and get a workout in before starting my day. But I can never wake up. I even set two alarm clocks as far away from my bed as possible so that when they go off in the morning, I have to physically get out of bed to turn them off. Even then, once I turn them off I still jump back into bed and fall asleep.
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Jordan Black Cement 4 How to Start a Retail Business in Singapore
gapore namely a combination of an Eastern and Western access the community is enriched with Asian ethics meanwhile in the meantime mingled with Western access of conducting happening Since Singapore does never have its own natural resources apt increase its economy, it relied aboard additional field such as exporting and manufacturing.
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Yoga Retreats
Yoga High’s Liz Buehler Walker and Mel Russo Take On Kripalu
Liz Buehler Walker and Mel Russo of the hip, Lower East Side Yoga High center are leading their very first six-day retreat in the Berkshires this Fall. Mel, formerly of East Yoga, is getting rave reviews from the tattooed hipster crowd down on Clinton Street. See for yourself: Learn to backbend in the mountains while receiving spa treatments and eating delicious food.
- Where: Kripalu
- When: September 20-25th
- What: Two classes a day. Morning class focuses on inversions, backbends, jump-backs and balancing. Afternoon class focuses on teaching together.
- How much: Costs Range from $745 to $1,930
- Link: Yoga High Kripalu Retreat
Recent Retreat Posts:
Day 28: Blood,Sweat’n Tears
Yes, that's the name of the class @ David Barton. And it really felt this way!!!
It was 45 min of high repetition exercises and intense cardio movements, integrated with boxing drills. It was more of a fighter training - one that makes you wanna scream when you do it, cuz it's so hard.
but it was worth it, cuz now I feel like a million bucks;)
Poet Laureate
The “Health and Wellness Fair" at Work
Every year the company I work for hosts a “Health and Wellness Fair,” opening the glass doors to our offices and allowing vendors to come and hawk their health wares and services. It’s been a bit of a joke at the office since the lady with the wolfberry concoction hospitalized one of our copyeditors with a free sample, but this year I thought I’d give it a shot and peruse the conference-room-turned-health-flea-market for something besides an ambulance ride. A sneak peek into corporate “wellness” after the jump!
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