Ritual Inspiration: Sri Dharma Mittra
“No one wants to practice by the teacher? In India, people would fight to place their mat by the teacher’s feet, but not here,” jokes Sri Dharma Mittra of the empty spaces around him in a very full...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Sharmila Desai
Desai smiles hugely when she speaks of her two young children, daughter Asha, 7, and son Arjuna, 5. “In many ways becoming a mother has allowed me to live a more pure yogic life,” she says. “Having my...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Ayo Janeen Jackson
Watch video on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wODXzj5m2QI When Ayo Janeen Jackson steps on the dance floor, her petite 5’2” frame glides rhythmically through space with lightness and grace....
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Rima Rani Rabbath
“Close your eyes and think to yourself what it is that you really, really want.” Rima Rani Rabbath seals her eyes shut at the front of the room and a yearning-filled smile comes to her face. Her...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Yogi and Guitarist Bibi McGill
The enigmatic Bibi McGill is as comfortable channeling the divine through the harmonium in the quiet of her own home as she is rocking a flaming guitar in front of thousands of screaming fans as...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Inga Eiriksdottir
Inga Eiriksdottir, the 5’10”, 31-year-old Icelandic plus-sized model calls yoga her beauty secret. Based in the West Village of New York City, Eiriksdottir has been modeling for more than 15 years....
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Tim Feldmann
When Tim Feldmann smiles, his large blue eyes grow bigger, his sculpted cheekbones perk upwards, and the creases that emerge off the corners of his mouth and in the center of his forehead seem to...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Scott Hagan, Barn Artist
Winter across the vast expanse of the plains states is bare; it is not bleak. There’s too much necessary rejuvenation occurring in those fallow fields of snow and corn-stalk stubble to call it bleak,...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg’s presence is gentle and commanding, her pedagogy earnest and funny, her writing personal and erudite. As a teacher and writer, Salzberg consistently demonstrates awareness and...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Alex Auder
In the early 90s yoga in New York City was considered fringe. Neither the hip avant-garde nor those in the corporate world were interested in wellness practices, and they certainly weren’t chanting to...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Entrepreneur Doug Evans
One could safely say that Doug Evans has invented the world’s most advanced home juicer. At $699, it’s also the most expensive. For this price tag you get a product that’s Wi-Fi enabled, requires zero...
View ArticleRitual Inspiration: Nichelle Hines
“I was used to standing out, from a very young age,” says Nichelle Hines. Born and raised in San Francisco, where she was one of five black students in a graduating high school class of 340, Hines...
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