Elena Brower

Yoga Industry May Have Found a Few Good Men -- and Millions of Devilish Ones, Too

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2012

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Women continue to be the most active and attractive names and faces around which the yoga industry is most visibly promoted, but the market clearly needs fresh blood -- and increasingly that blood is male.

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Art Of Attention: Remapping Our Minds

Elena Brower | Posted 05.18.2012

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Lately I've been learning how to relate directly to my life rather than through my memories or expectations. I'm actively rooting out my expressions of anger by paying $1 for every doubting thought.

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Misconduct In The Yoga World

Elena Brower | Posted 04.21.2012

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I love the methodology of Anusara yoga. Even though I resigned my certification those months ago as a means of separating from the aspects for which I don't stand, now I stand for forgiveness.

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Understanding Why We Keep Secrets

Elena Brower | Posted 07.16.2011

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Can you begin to see how your ability to justify everything you have to say is exactly how you've trapped yourself into the "you" you aren't actually living up to?

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Be A Servant To Your Best Self, Not A Slave To Your Worst

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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Would you rather be an unconscious slave to every thought, circumstance and negativity, or a conscious servant to the highest, to your heart?

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Art of Attention: Stand Still and Choose

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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None of us are any ONE way. We choose who we are, moment to moment, day to day and year after year.

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10,000 Yogis Gather At Central Park (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 11.17.2011

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Over 10,000 yogis filled the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park yesterday evening. It was officially the world's largest registered yoga class...

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Yoga World Record Set On Great Lawn With 10,000 Yogis

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's the week that yoga conquered New York City. A day after yoga took over Times Square, yogis flocked to Central Park's Great Lawn, setting the wor...

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10,000 Yogis Rained Out in Central Park (SLIDESHOW)

Chasen Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Central Park was set to be transformed into the world's largest yoga studio, as over 10,000 blue mat wielding participants were prepared to go into down dog in unison. Things didn't go exactly as planned.

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Art of Attention: From Complaint to Gratitude

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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Gratitude seems the most effective, healing state I've found in ten years of studious seeking. In a situation where we find ourselves complaining, the healing reaches into our hearts and everyone nearby.

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Art Of Attention: Yoga As Scaffolding For Your Life

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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When we are able to open ourselves through one attentive breath, we drop our resistances to our own grace as well as the grace of those around us and bring light to the moment.

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MoMA: Free, With Inner Peace

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first YoGA at MoMA was held on Super Bowl Sunday '09 in the womb-like atmosphere of artist Pipilotti Rist's wall-to-wall shag carpet and her floor-to-ceiling video installation.

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Art Of Attention: Awakening

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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The process of placing our attention on the doubt and fear - and learning what we need to see in order to bring balance to this life - is the process of awakening that brings us toward that evolution again and again.

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Kobe Bryant, Anoushka Shankar, and You -- On Mastery

Scott Schwenk | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm not interested in finding a glamorous group of some sort to accept me and white-wash over the places I haven't been willing to do the work around releasing insecurity myself.

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Art of Attention: Unplug and Recharge With Pranic Healing

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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Every time I take the time to open myself as a conduit for the healing of my own heart and the heart of the world, I am quietly uplifted and fully recharged.

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Art Of Attention: Is Yoga Really Useful?

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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Instead of trying to get something from your practice, use your yoga or your meditation to practice expressing how you see and value yourself.

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Art of Attention: Practice Yoga? Teach Yoga? Think About Yoga? Read This.

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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Form and Function within yoga. Together, they are a complete practice. One without the other is a downright limiting of our potential -- and an incomplete class experience.

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Art of Attention: Apology as Your Art, and The Way to Your Heart

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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The take-home here a concept I've been studying for almost ten years. We have three centers in our bodies. When the activity of these three centers is balanced, we are living in our hearts.

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Art of Attention: How Has Yoga Influenced You?

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

When we're attentive, our interior environment resonates as easeful exterior experiences.

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Art of Attention: From Acceptance to Intimacy

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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We must cultivate a state of radical forgiveness to experience true intimacy.

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Art of Attention: Five Keys to Emotional Consistency

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011

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This is not about purification, nor is it about denial. This is about using your attention, your only real tool, to cultivate your most essential capacity for inner consistency.

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