Posted by admin on April 30, 2013 in Community
Today's trailblazers are a group that many of our yogis are hopefully familiar with: the lovely ladies of Off the Mat, Into the World. If you're not familiar with the amazing work that this organization does, OTM helps individuals take the path of yoga “off the mat and into the world," expanding the sphere of change outward to local and global communities. They do this by facilitating...
Posted by admin on April 29, 2013 in Community
“We really need to step it up, and not out of guilt but out of inspiration. It can be fun, and that’s what the mindful life is: we’re not trying to be spiritual at the expense of the whole world, and we’re not trying to be environmental at the expense of being good people."
Waylon Lewis (founder of ElephantJournal.com) asks whether we, as yogis, are here to be cool or are here to serve. In...
Posted by admin on April 28, 2013 in Community
In celebration of Record Store Day this year, moby and Mark Lanegan collaborated on an exclusive track that was released as a limited edition 7” this past 20th of April. Our musical headliner at three Wanderlust Festivals this year (WLCO, WLCA, and WLBC) Moby describes in his journal why he chose Mark Lanegan to work with on this track, "I've been a fan of Mark's from his early SST...
Posted by admin on April 26, 2013 in Adventure
There’s freedom from what others think once you get beyond the fear.
Typically, we censor ourselves in order to retain “their” approval. Well, I lost that censorship on this journey. It was stripped from me, through a series of events that began with risking rejection and publicly asking to go on a journey that was seemingly very ill-suited for me.
None of it made any sense. Go to a...
Posted by admin on April 25, 2013 in Yoga
MC Yogi's "Give Love" is a song we hear around the Wanderlust office a lot, but when we heard the opening bars of the song in this fan-created video from Queen Street Yoga, we were totally unprepared for the sheer enthusiasm and imagination that would unfold in the ensuing three and a half minutes of this version. It starts innocently enough, but you won't be able to take your eyes off this one-...
~ By Wanderlust Vermont teacher, Lauren Rudick
I usually try not to make a big deal of my birthday. In the past, some birthdays were fraught with disappointment. I used to get sad because my expectations of the actions of others on this special day didn't pan out. A forgetful friend, a party with lower than...