After venturing to India following the new year, Jason Scholder brings his travels to a close with a pit-stop in Zurich, Switzerland, where he will be teaching a demonstrative 3ME workshop on January 28th, 10am -1 pm, sponsored by Yoga Artikel and Yoga Carmen.  The workshop will help yogis of all levels learn how to incorporate the Three Minute Egg® into their practice.  Offered for both yoga students and yoga practitioners, Jason’s approach will allow participants to gain “insight into the myriad ways this deceptvely simple and versatile yoga prop can expand your practice.”

Students and teachers who are local to the event and will be participating can purchase Eggs through our Swiss dealer, Yoga Artikel.  Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably and bring 2-6 Eggs.  For more information, contact info@yoga-carmen.ch.

Five-time amateur bodybuilder, Shannon Chisholm, is getting ready to take on her sixth event and her first as a paraplegic.

When biking home on Hendersonville Road last summer, Shannon was struck by a car and left paralyzed.  Also a mother of two, she came home from the hospital having been told she would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.  In a recent article Shannon told the Asheville Citizen-Times that she remembered little of the actual accident and mainly “[waking] up in the hospital two days later [and] I realized I couldn’t move my legs…I realized at that time what challenges I would face, not only physical, but emotional and psychological.”

Regardless, Shannon remains fearless in the face of challenge, with an attitude that continues only to look forward as she prepares to continue bodybuilding as a paraplegic.  This weekend alongside friends Shannon has organized the Chisholm Champion Challenge, a multi-day fitness event on January 27 and 28 at eight different fitness venues around Asheville.  “We decided to get the word out that no matter what challenges you face in life, that it’s important to live well and live a healthy life and take care of yourself and never give up,” Chisholm said.  The event aims to help Shannon with her high medical bills as a result of the accident, as well as to raise awareness about fitness and to help Asheville residents in their pursuit of health and wellness.

With the purchase of a $10 wristband adorned with the words “Never Give Up,” participants can partake in a variety of fitness events at well-known fitness venues [...] more

Following her participation in the 2012 Yoga Journal Conference: San Francisco, Egg Signateur Annie Carpenter continues her Winter Tour with a workshop at InYoga Center on Sunday, January 22, in Village Valley, CA.

The workshop, entited “Yoga for Beginners: (Re) Learning the Essentials,” is for those who are new to yoga as well as those who would like to review yoga’s [...] more

On January 8th, 2012, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article stating that “the vast majority of people should give up yoga altogether,” as it’s “simply too likely to cause harm,” citing Iyengar Yoga teacher Glenn Black, who now resides in New York.  In the first Sunday edition of the new year, the article has stirred quite a controversial backlash from the yoga community, with many stepping forward with their response to the negative slants of the “dangers of yoga” that the article claims.

Of the responses that have come forth, that of Chris Beach, president of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States (IYNAUS), who consulted with many Senior Iyengar Yoga teachers and sent a response letter to the New York Times, stands out.  The response letter points out many errors that they believed the article contained as well expressing dissent with its negative tone, in hopes that it will be published to put these issues to rest:

To the Editor:

If yoga hurts, it is not yoga. A student’s overreaching ego, a teacher’s ignorance – many causes may lead to injury while doing yoga, but yoga itself cannot be blamed. [...] more