Vintage yoga photos

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A Vintage Fashion Blog with photographs of fashions from the forties through today culled from the top fashion magazines of the past decades.

The ever-growing popularity of mindfulness—from corporate boardrooms to inner-city schools—has finally made my academic interest a conversation-starter at dinner parties. “Ah, the Buddha was talking about cognitive science 2,500 years ago!” as someone exclaimed after learning about what I do as an a

Marilyn Monroe is putting my sad self to shame with her yoga poses shot back in 1948. She’s making it look easy here, but it’s actually not so easy if you’re a beginner. You have to work and gradually stretch yourself into these poses. It can take some time for your body to become this limber. I’ve read that Marilyn Monroe was a devotee of yoga, but I’ve never seen that much photographic evidence for it. But here she is in all her yoga glory. And of course, looking stunning while posing…

I step onto my mat, and the crowd goes silent. Each voice in my head, each thought, each distraction is stunned into quiet—they all pause, waiting to see what will happen next. My toes, bright and ...