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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Why I Swapped Yoga for Kickboxing This Election Year

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Comment Is Free. January 15, 2012.

Americans need to stand up, to fight; we cannot dispassionately let the right impose its will upon us because we believe we're closer to spiritual enlightenment than they are.

Should You Give Up Yoga? Experts Respond to the New York Times' "Yoga-Can-Wreck-You" Controversy

Alison Pace, AlterNet. January 11, 2012.

Experts debate whether yoga is really good for you.

Naked Yoga? Why I Stripped Down to Do "Clothing Optional" Yoga

Tolly Moseley, Salon. January 5, 2012.

I want to challenge my own anxiety about nudity. But can I really handle downward dog without any clothes on?

More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy

Alison Pace, AlterNet. December 29, 2011.

Dirt? Morning sex? You bet. Novelist Alison Pace shares tips for body and mind to kick off the new year.

Charismatic Yoga Evangelist Takes Indian Politics By Storm

Sudha Ramachandran, Asia Times. March 21, 2011.

India's bewilderingly complex political arena has a new player -- the country's most popular yoga guru, Baba Ramdev.

Vision: How Yoga is Transforming a Kenyan City

Anna Clark, AlterNet. February 10, 2011.

In Nairobi, the Africa Yoga Project is training HIV+, poor, and disabled citizens to be yoga instructors, creating jobs and changing lives.