Some of you have been asking my favorite recommendations for yoga places.
I'm a vinyasa yoga lover so these are some places I enjoy for vigorous,
inspiring flow classes:

East Bay:
-Laura Camp at Monkey Yoga nr Grand Lake in Oakland
www.monkeyyoga.com
funny, powerful, amazing classes

San Francisco:
-Les Leventhal at Yoga Tree (various locations)
www.lesleventhal.com
for terrific, compassionate yet challenging classes.
-Also at Yoga Tree Stephanie Snyder & Rusty Wells
for inspiring classes.
-Laughing Lotus (see below, NYC) now has a gorgeous
studio at 16th & Dolores! Check it out with Dana, Jasmine
or Keith.

New York City:
-Laughing Lotus at 6th Avenue and 19th street
(one of my favorite yoga studios on the planet)
www.laughinglotus.com

-Dharma Yoga Center at 23rd and 3rd

Los Angeles:
-Steve Earth's Power Yoga at Fairfax and Melrose
www.earthspoweryoga.com

-Liberation Yoga at 124 La Brea
www.liberationyoga.com
(another magical, amazing studio)

-Maha Yoga at 13050 san vicente
www.mahayoga.com

Ojai :
-Lulu Bandhas
www.lulubandhas.com

Metaphysical sites I like, love or recommend highly, depending...

www.freewillastrology.com

www.cainer.com

www.cafeastrology.com

www.astrologyzone.com

www.kundalinisplendor.blogspot.com

www.forecasters.co.nz
The most thorough, positive astrological transit site I've found.
Free daily and weekly updates, but best of all, for $27 USD per year,
you can have a very precise monthly forecast emailed to you.
Great bargain!

Good Vedic Astrologers:

Dennis Harness    www.vedicastrology.org
Vaughn Paul Manley        www.lightonvedicastrology.com

Also, for all the news of what's really going on, but won't get covered by
the "regular" media:

www.salon.com
www.truthout.org
www.visionaryactivism.com

Just for fun, my favorite addictive oracle sites. (OCD people, beware!)

www.facade.com
www.largesalad.co.uk  
(digital prediction system)

www.free-tarot-readings.net
www.lifetimetv.com/astro/tea_leaves/index.html
(elegant online tea leaf reading!)

www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=Tarot&Sub2Menu=OshoZenTarot
(occasionally profound, for an automated reading)

RANDOM BAY AREA COOL PLACES TO PATRONIZE
(I've never tired of living here all these years;
these are some of the businesses that make it so special):

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-Osento Baths    Valencia bet. 20th &  21  (osento.com)   Japanese Baths for women only;
  beautiful, healing environment  (my first job ever when I moved to SF in 1982!)

-Dog Eared Books       Valencia & 21 st.
-Green Apple Books     Clement & 6th (or so)

-Sunflower Cafe      Valencia & 16th st,  fantastic vietnamese spot
-Samovar Tea Gardens      18th and Sanchez, or the new Yerba Buena Gardens location  downtown   (very magical place)

-For the Love of Ganesha       Haight Street nr Central       unique, beautiful shop for all imports from  Asia (wonderful prices, loving owners, part of proceeds return to help villages in Thailand)

-Multikulti    Valencia nr 16th (across from Sunflower Cafe)     another amazing import shop run by great owner

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-Back to Action Chiropractic      MLK & Dwight Streets      Berkeley

-Angelfish Restaurant       Bay Farm Island's incredible gem of a sushi bar
-Manzanita Restaurant      40th Street    Oakland        great macrobiotic