August 2005 | Letters to the Editor
From Our Readers
Books Not Bars
As a ten-year reader of the magazine, I want to thank you for your fantastic June issue. Covering important stories relating the integration of our health and well being to the policies of governments that frame our ability to secure these aspects of our life is SO important. Very few media outlets cover these stories or take this approach. I hope you will continue to feature stories like the Books Not Bars campaign in future issues. Thanks for your great work towards advancing consciousness in all of our movements!
—Lora O’Connor, San Rafael, CA
Yoga Can be Gym Dandy
Lisa Maria’s article “McYoga” in the July issue was well written but, in part, off-the-mark. Her comparison of studio and gym models is overbroad and under-researched. I take yoga classes at Nautilus of Marin in San Rafael. As part of my teacher training with Sherri Baptiste, I attend yoga workshops, retreats and conferences along with my personal practice. Baptiste is one of the top 20 teachers in the country and teaches in a gym setting. Sherri’s father, Walter, was a body builder and yogi who opened one of SF’s first yoga studios. The Baptiste style combines strength, flexibility, health and spirituality through yoga. There are many highly trained, certified teachers working in gym settings.
I, too, am concerned about the corporate takeover of yoga, but there are many examples in Marin of expensive studios with plush settings and no substance.
—Leonard, San Rafael
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