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Index of all Articles in the Yoga Retreats Category

• What is an Holistic Retreat?
  
  You see the description, Holistic Retreat, more and more these days. You know that the term holistic when applied to complementary therapies means - that the whole person, mind, body and spirit, is targeted. But what exactly does this mean when it is describing a retreat?

• Justin Hakuta: Has Yoga Lost Its Soul? Part II: Capitalism & Opportunity
  
  Commercialization presents a mixed bag of opportunities and challenges to yoga as a discipline and cultural movement in the West. Although the benefits are substantial, the challenges present the risk of yoga becoming formulaic and commodified like so many other mature industries today.
  


• Conference brings yoga close to home
  
  LYNNWOOD — Those who practice and teach yoga can talk endlessly about the physical and mental health benefits it offers, such as melting stress and stretching stiff muscles.
  


• Snowboarders create surf, yoga retreat in Tahiti
  
  Olympic snowboarder Gary Zebrowski and his wife, Caroline Beliard-Zebrowski, have turned their partnership of adventure and healthy living into an international business venture. Launching in May, the couple's My Surf Yoga Retreat offers various trip packages aimed at getting people to shut off their cell phones for several days and go surfing, practice yoga, and basically unwind from the ...
  


• Tech warriors unplug for yoga respite
  
  As one of the nation’s largest yoga conferences got under way last week in San Francisco, many of the tech warriors driving our tweet-bombarded, app-devouring, Facebook-frenzied culture were firmly ensconced not in their cubicles but in the downward-facing dog pose.
  


• India Ink: The Great Yoga Divide
  
  A recent controversy highlights how far Western yoga has moved from its traditional roots.