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I came across YogaConnect (tagline: where the yoga culture meets online), the

premier online destination where the yoga culture can interact, explore, share ideas and create conscious relationships of all kinds, with other yoga-minded folks

The registration process feels a lot like a Match.com for yogis. They ask what kind of yoga you practice — including the Svroopa and Not Sure styles. You can also choose Alternative Interests and Diet — pollo vegetarian (?), and extend your profile with more in-depth questions (My sacred space is…).

After some surfing around, it looks like there about about a thousand members as of March 2006, with 250 associated with Ashtanga.

The forums are somewhat inactive at this point. As an Internet startup, it’s not MySpace (yet), but given the rapid growth in the Ashtangi population, maybe it will be.

Reading other yogis’ profiles is interesting and the YogaConnect profile is well thought out. It’s also free. A quick search of people in Tracy’s demographic resulted in many southern Californians, so if you’re in southern California, this site’s definitely for you right now.

Maybe a good way to meet someone who has no night life because they get up at 6:00 am for Mysore practice?

Write in and tell us about your yogic connections!

Find your Atman mate

The March 2006 issue of Ashtanga.com’s newsletter has just come out, and if you are at all interested in what’s going in the Ashtanga yoga world, it’s a must read.

I’ve been a subscriber to the Ashtanga.com newsletter ever since the first one in March 2002.

Every month the newsletter lists workshops, newly authorized teachers, new products like books and DVD, tidbits of the Ashtanga world – a typical example this month is Tim Miller’s move from Encinitas to Carlsbad after more than 20 years.

You can read the newsletter online or have it emailed to you each month.