This set of links is a hodge­podge of sites that are related to my inter­ests. Health, well­ness and per­sonal growth and devel­op­ment — and try­ing to avoid the snake oil stuff. It also includes some of the stan­dard places to buy yoga life style prod­ucts, as well as music, video and other stuff.

Yoga Props, Cloth­ing, etc.

If you’re going to make a life style change, you have to change your buy­ing habits so here is a list of places to start.

• EverythingYoga.com – Your source for yoga prod­ucts, yoga cloth­ing, yoga mats
• Gaiam: con­sumerism for an alter­na­tive life style. I bought my first sticky mat and blocks from them.
• Vick­erey: yoga goods and paper, inter­est­ing com­bi­na­tion, though pricey
• Mats that don’t pol­lute (Every mat man­u­fac­turer now has eco-​​friendly mod­els): Eco Yoga »» list of US dis­trib­u­tors ::: Health and Yoga ::: Jade Yoga
• Bheka
• Tools for Yoga
• YogaPro
• Hug­ger­Mug­ger: cre­ated the first sticky mat in the States and has expanded into a vari­ety of lines.
• YogaAccessories.com – where I bought my lat­est batch of props
• PrAna: cloth­ing for rock climb­ing and yoga, plus mats and other paraphernalia
• Man­duka – mats for the pre­fec­tion­ist prac­ti­tioner: I use the Eko Mat and eQua full-​​size towel.
• Yog­i­toes: a dif­fer­ent take on a mat towel, per­haps more grip and sturdy. I put one in my suit­case, , less bulky, when trav­el­ing rather than car­ry­ing around a mat. I can throw it on a car­pet and it works fine.
• Lulele­mon Ath­let­ics: see this cloth­ing manufacturer’s man­i­festo to see where they are com­ing from. Although some doubt their con­vic­tion, con­sid­er­ing how Lul­ule­mon has “gone corporate.”
• Cush­ions and benches for med­i­ta­tion – check this out for the educa­tive infor­ma­tion before mak­ing a purchase

Sounds

• YogaPeeps: Lara Ces­tone inter­views lead­ing yoga instructors.
• CDBaby – an eclec­tic cat­a­logue of sounds and tunes that has not rela­tion­ship to the big labels. CDs and downloads
• MetaS­ta­tion: broad selec­tion of off-​​beat inspi­ra­tions, but no big names.
• Spirit Voy­age: Kun­dalini music and other currents
• Sound­sTrue: audio, video and music for the inner life
• Deva Pre­mal and Miten: major influ­ence in spir­i­tual music
• Krishna Das. Beliefnet has a long and good inter­view with him, plus sev­eral record­ings of him chant­ing sacred kirtans.
• Nutone Music: Music to inspire. This is a rel­a­tively new major label with eight of the most tal­ent musi­cians, like David Stringer, Donna de Lory, Jai Uttal, David New­man (Durga Das)
• Mag­natune: Inde­pen­dent music
• Yoga of Kir­tan: Con­ver­sa­tions on the Sacred Art of Chant­ing — a 500-​​page book and audio CD by Steven Rosen, fea­tur­ing 21 inter­views with musi­cians who draw on this tradition.
• Yoga Ther­apy Web (Yoga Spirit) with infor­ma­tion on health and heal­ing, and audio down­loads of lead­ers in the field of yoga therapy.

Sights

• Nat­ural Jour­neys car­ries all kinds of exer­cise videos (from belly danc­ing to Pilates), plus other products.
• Prana­maya – great videos of Dharma Mit­tra, Paul Gril­ley, Sarah Pow­ers, Andre Lappa, Edward Clark, Gary Kraft­sow, Mark Horner, Nis­chala Joy Devi, Jill Mil­leri. David New­man does kirtan.
• YogaD­own­loads: an amaz­ing selec­tion of pod­casts and on-​​demand videos. Asana visu­als
• YogaV­ibes: a selec­tion of yoga instruc­tors with streamed video and sev­eral pay­ment for­mu­las. It also has a beginner’s series and shorter, free videos.

Yoga Doc­umene­taries

• Yoga Unveiled:: Evo­lu­tion and Essence of a Spir­i­tual Tra­di­tion. This is a DVD (2 disk set) of yoga super­stars explain­ing how the cul­tures of India and the United States are meeting.
• Enlighten Up: an excel­lent film about a novice and a film maker look­ing for truth in yoga. Order DVD
• Liv­ing Yoga: The Life and Teach­ings of Swami Satchi­dananda. This guru was a major influ­ence from the 60s, and his Yogav­illa ashram is close to DC.
• TITANS OF YOGA: (yes, all caps) 25 teach­ers explain why yoga is impor­tant. this was orig­i­nally released dur­ing Yoga Month 2010.
• Yoga Inc. A Jour­ney Through the Big Busi­ness of Yoga (2008)