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The Yoga Hip-Hop Revolution Is Here
Yoga chanting — bah, so old school. Yoga rapping — that's the future. Without further ado, we present to you Jesse Abraham and what is, as far as we know, the first bona fide yoga rap. Listen to it here. Check the lyrics out below. Video of a live performance of the yoga rap after the jump.
Yo man I ever tell you bout my girl?
Nah, why?
She be doin yoga, man....
I walk into her crib
Like where the sofa at?
I notice that there's just a yoga mat, holy crap...
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Mrs. Bikram Yoga and Bollywood Director Release Michael Jackson Tribute
Last night in Mumbai, blinged-out Bollywood music director Bappi Lahiri debuted his new Michael Jackson tribute album. Featured in the tracks: "Mesmerizing recitals" from Rajashree Choudhury, wife of Bikram yoga founder Bikram Choudhury. You might just have to take a brief minute to listen...
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Non-Tired Yoga Music
Music can make or break a workout. Spin teachers are usually hip to this. But yoga teachers aren't always quite as fresh... Over at Well + Good NYC, our friends got stuck listening to the "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley in, count them, three different yoga classes this week. In cased you've missed it, we have a treasure trove fabulous playlists for yoga and every other conceivable workout (Music for strip-spin? Check. For extended plank sessions? Check.) But your yoga teacher might not know about this fab resource. In their rage against Jeff Buckley, Well + Good listed off a slew of other songs that need a yoga break ("Just Breathe," "The Blower's Daughter," etc.) Now that the yoga teachers of the world know what not to play, how about suggestions for what they should play. What's the best song you've heard in yoga lately? Or how about potentially awesome songs no yoga teacher has yet braved?
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Jessica Bellofatto's Favorite Yoga Music
Collectively, we like yoga music, so long as it's the right kind of yoga music. Consensus is chill is best. Urbansherpa shared her chill and fabulous yoga playlist back in '09, but if you're looking to refresh your rotation or gather some ammo to nudge the teacher who has the Hare Krishna chanting on eternal repeat toward a brighter future, we've got ideas. After Jessica Bellofatto of KamaDeva Yoga finished telling us about life as a yoga-triathlete, we asked her about her favorite yoga music. Her top picks:
- Anything Neil Young
- Stairway to Heaven
- Tracy Chapman — always amazing
- Eva Cassidy
- The Dead Man Walking soundtrack
- The very beautiful Into the Wild soundtrack
Curious souls can listen to the Into the Wild soundtrack after the jump.
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Cooler Yoga Music: "The Yoga Sessions"
What makes good yoga music? Sitar? Chanting? The kirtan crowd leans that way, and they seem to be having a marvelous time. But Yoga Organix begs to differ. Yoga instructor Derek Beres has a following at Equinox, but he also has a following as DJ and music journalist, and now YogaOrganix is putting out his first yoga music album. Together he and David "Duke Mushroom" Schommer are EarthRise Sound System, and they describe their new album, "The Yoga Sessions," as "percussively rich" and "dubby." Set for a 1/1/2010 release, the tracks are apparently intended to be as good in a club as they are in a yoga class. So if you could use a little break from Bhagavan Das (not that you don't love him!) consider slipping "The Yoga Sessions" to your yoga teacher as a little New Year's present.
