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Mental Health Break: Martha Loves Ashholetanga

Yoga can get a little over-serious (especially when you’re trying like hell not to fall into a heap during crow pose), but YogaDork‘s amazing Yoga Style Guide puts the hilarity back into holding awkward poses and squeezing in between other students’ mats. This week, they’re featuring Ashholetanga and Howmuchlongar, two “styles” they say are followed by Martha Stewart and Justin Bieber. You might be surprised to find that you’re already familiar with a lot of the key tenets like “Hurts-So-Good” and “Watching-Paint-Dryasana.” More »

Mental Health Break: The Tragedy of First Position

“The Tragedy of the First Position” has been making its rounds on the internet, and we highly recommend taking a mental health break for it. We feel for this girl, we really do. Not only is ballet difficult; so is yoga, pilates, lifting weights…hell, even getting on a treadmill trips us up half the time. Unfortunately for us, struggling with physical exercise isn’t nearly as adorable when you’re a fully grown woman and your instructor expects your mental agility to reflect it, but this girl definitely has age and charm on her side: More »