Yoga Journal

[Guest guest]

The last really good article I read in YJ was

their bit on yoga of the Mysore palace...I forget how

many years ago that was.<br><br>The last really good

yoga book I read was "Yogi Bare" (I believe that was

the title), the compilation of excellent, revealing

interviews with various yoga teachers.<br><br>I wish more

yoga publications were like the above ...give us more

technical information, more honest interviews with

challenging questions and useful sharing of experience. We've

had enough pablum and hero worship of the

same-ol-same-ol yoga icons to last us forever.<br><br>I think

this forum is far more useful than any issue of YJ

i've ever read. Probably because no one is selling

anything here.

[Guest guest]

Have any of you come across Yoga International

the publication of the Himalayan Institute of

Honsdale Penn. as founded by Swami Rama. That mag is

rather deeper than Yoga Journal more of a Rishikesh

viewpoint than California. Or if you like a buddhist angle

try Tricycle or for a general discuss Andrew Cohen's

"What Is Enlightenment" from Moksha foundation (check

on web) though all of these are not into describing

asanas (YI does)<br><br>Yoga Journal has faults for sure

but it is kind of fun and book reviews are good, some

features and so on.....most of the posters seem to be

pretty media savvy and you have to understand that

magazines like that are always going back to basics for

"newbies"<br>In the end the magazine won't do your practise for

you but it is nice with a cup of tea while waiting

for the toast to pop up afterwards.