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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.
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Anitak's Treadmill Playlist
A couple of weeks ago, Anitak forgot her headphones. "I felt so deflated that I almost went straight home! Treadmill + no music = ultimate boredom." It was particularly painful because she'd just put together a new high-energy playlist. She made it through, but here's the playlist — download it, and you'll see that it would indeed be rough to be cut off from these tunes. Anitak's full liner notes after the jump.
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Oiwuc's Whitney Houston Playlist
Oiwuc has rediscovered running, and Whitney Houston gets some of the credit. Whitney wakes her up, and pumps her up, and, in return, she receives Oiwuc's official "looooooove!" rating. We asked Oiwuc for the tracks that rekindled her running crush, and here they are....
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k.ben's Mellow Run Mix
When she lived in Brooklyn, k.ben says, this was her running playlist.
It got me from my apartment to Prospect Park, around the 3 mile loop, and back. It is evidence of the fact that I run a pretty mellow pace (between a 10 and an 11-minute mile); and it is evidence most of all of the fact that I have no idea what the kids are listening to. (Does anyone even know who Bill Withers is anymore?) But it's very listenable, in sort of an easy listening way, I admit. The last few songs, from Bill Withers on, were nice when I'd not want to run home and I'd just walk, or when i'd have time for a little stretching and yoga after. Sun salutations to Lovely Day are AWESOME.
Her full liner notes, and two extra tracks (too cool for playlist.com) after the jump.