Just out of curiosity - was the Yoga Alliance, or any other professional accrediting outfit, ever asked to investigate this situation?
Perhaps the yoga industry will have to become subject to state licensing (as, say, hairdressers are).
Too bad.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
Charles Eisenstein can tell you about his environmentalist friend who insists the one and only solution to climate change - barring any thought or talk of all other suggestions - is a carbon tax. “There's something in me,” he says, “that knows that can't be right.” Eisenstein, author of four books on ecology and economics, doesn't doubt the science. But in a polarized world, he questions society's increasing tendency to stake out uncompromising positions. “We will not have a healthy...
Elayne Clift has written numerous columns supporting abortion. In a recent one, she quotes Lucy Leriche, vice president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, who claimed that “over 95 percent of women who have had an abortion report [feel] relief that outweighs any negative emotion they might have, even years later.” Now, I couldn't help but wonder just how Ms. Leriche reached such an astounding conclusion and why in the world Ms. Clift would quote it.
Celebrated, innovative Sandglass Theater, a progenitor of puppetry for social change, is back with its biennial Puppets in Paradise. Held this year at the burgeoning Retreat Farm venue, the festival connects audiences with artists from the region and from the rest of the world for two days of theater arts and puppetry, which this year will shine a lens on the environment, race, and empowerment, according to a Sandglass newsletter. Historically a significant fundraiser for Sandglass, this year, with a...
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