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Tag: asana
Misperception, the “Innocent Mistake”, and Cupcakes
Week before last, I attended my teacher Sage Rountree's fantastic Sequencing Yoga Classes from Welcome to Namaste five-day teachers' intensive at Carrboro Yoga Company, as part of one of my two 500-hour advanced yoga studies programs. (Yes, I am now enrolled in TWO 500-hour trainings. The other one is at Asheville Yoga Center. Yoga geek, much?)… Continue reading Misperception, the “Innocent Mistake”, and Cupcakes
mastering asana: ego inflation or healthy achievement?
In class recently with Ti Harmony, my main yoga teacher, a student joked about never being able to enter his expression of hanumanasana in the USA Yoga National Yoga Asana Championship. I giggled along with several of my classmates. It was funny to those of us who practice yoga primarily as a spiritual path rather… Continue reading mastering asana: ego inflation or healthy achievement?
teaching schedule, week of 12/9/12…
I'll be teaching my regular winter schedule this week, with the exception that Ros Schwartz will be subbing my 10:30 a.m. Open Yoga class at Heart of Yoga School on Tuesday, and I will be subbing Gentle Yoga for Jitka at Heart of Yoga School at noon on Thursday after my Open class at 10:30… Continue reading teaching schedule, week of 12/9/12…
flier for The Teachings of Pema Chodron (asana/meditation/discussion) on 12/22!
winter 2013 teaching schedule (weekly & series classes)
MONDAYS: Lil' Asana for young yogis ages 6-12, 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m., Heart of Yoga School (canceled for holiday on 12/31/12; last class at Heart of Yoga on 1/7/13; moves to Carrboro Yoga Company 1/14/13, Mondays 4-5 p.m.) MONDAYS: Flow Yoga 101, 7:30-8:45 p.m., Jan. 7-Feb. 12, 2013 ($75 for the 6-week series, or drop in for… Continue reading winter 2013 teaching schedule (weekly & series classes)
challenging our assumptions (or, why I take back all the mean things I said about power yoga)
Recently, I was chatting with Sage Rountree, co-owner of Carrboro Yoga Company and Yoga for Athletes expert. I mentioned that I noticed a Facebook status update she posted about having survived a Bikram Yoga class. I was curious--what on earth would make her decide to take a Bikram class on purpose? I mean, they've got… Continue reading challenging our assumptions (or, why I take back all the mean things I said about power yoga)
