(Tadasana Festival) Yoga teachers voice their philosophies for the upcoming Earth Day weekend yoga fest at the beach in Santa Monica, April 20-22, 2012.
Tadasana (pronounced: tuh-dah sauna) is "Mountain Pose." It is powerful, ready to go, settled and calm, a reservoir of energy. Yogini-activist Seane Corn (shown above) is just back from her appearance at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference with Buddhist luminaries and Silicon Valley tech capitalists from Google, Facebook, and sundry spying agencies. The festival is three days of yoga classes, music (like Radha and Govindas at left), speakers, partying, and FREE LOVE. At least we hope there's free love. Tickets are not a bargain (but cheaper than Burning Man and its STEP fiasco), and science writer William Broad (The Science of Yoga) tells Madeleine Brand that, unlike calisthenics or other stressful exercises, yoga promotes sex drive and vitality. Meditation and the other eight limbs of the Integral or Royal Yoga (Raja Yoga) System would normally handle that and balance one out. So we'd better start our yoga-ayurvedic diet now to get ready. (Find your body type with Dr. Berg).