is having Friend Day Thursday! Come to STROGA for my hot vinyasa class at 7p, or join me for Wanelle Kellee Charles’s 8:15p Power Yoga class. I miss you, friends! Cocktails follow at 9:30!
From the NYT Article, “A Yoga Manifesto“: Yoga is definitely big business these days. A 2008 poll, commissioned by Yoga Journal, concluded that the number of people doing yoga had declined from 16.5 million in 2004 to 15.8 million almost four years later. But the poll also estimated that the actual spending on yoga classes…
I’ve been asked by my students if yoga is a religion, and I’m hard pressed to answer. If religion is concerned with the cause and nature of the universe, then yes, I guess yoga is a religion. But, then, so too is string theory. It seems everyone wants a piece of the yoga pie, and…
successfully completed one one full clockwise revolution in mandalasana. Next will be a counter clockwise revolution.
Per Jackie’s Request: Fitness Update + Dog Pic: 12 mile run. Teach. House Cleaning. Outdoor Vinyasa. CrossFit. In. that. order.
ran 5.5 before leaving to teach. 90 minute vinyasa upon my return home. If anyone would like to practice with me from 3-4:30, you’re welcome to. Core and inversion work, fwiw.
On solstices and equinoxes we do a 108 sun salutations in the yogic tradition. During medaitation, when I’m silently spinning the beads on my mala, I have 108 beads before my guru bead. But why? When one of my student’s asked, I gave a few of the stock answers I knew off the top of…
was able to roll his right hip down and tuck his tailbone down in an unsupported hanumanasana today!