Yoga for the Modern Lifestyle

An estimated 11,000 Yogis unrolled their mats in order to celebrate the summer solstice this weekend at free class in Times Square, while last week the Hanuman festival in Boulder saw 4,000 yoga mats thrown down over four days of yoga classes. With the known benefits of stress reduction, detoxification and mind-body awareness that yoga gives its practitioners, yoga is growing increasingly popular among Americans.

The Hanuman Festival markets itself as a yoga festival for the modern lifestyle as it

takes place within a town and not at some remote island location, allowing Yogis from all over the world easy access to come and join in a community of peaceful and mindful individuals over a weekend event filled with classes, inspirational talks and music.

The vendor village is a hub of yoga studios, clothes and healthy food merchants. Yogis play on slack-lines and hula hoops as others sit in the shady lounge tent and enjoy listening to live music. Hanuman Festival attendees can practice under the protection of tents outside with the babble of the Boulder Creek just 20 feet away from where they have set their mats. Offering world-class instructors such as Richard Freeman and Kathryn Budig, it’s no wonder that this four-year old festival is growing rapidly each year.



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