beginner

So, you've read How To Survive Your First Yoga Class and everything is going great. You have been doing yoga but you can feel yourself slipping. Here are 5 easy tips for keeping yourself on the mat and off the couch.

The yoga teacher journey begins in many different ways, everyone’s journey has a special and unique characteristic, it is your journey and yours alone.  For me, it was that one moment wh

Gratitude.  The first thing I think about when I reflect on my life as a yoga teacher.  What an amazing vocation to share and witness the process of life, my life and others.

Surprisingly I experienced a class that brought new meaning to the word gratitude, opening my eyes to how yoga is a reflection of life in each of us.

I was visiting my friend and fellow yoga teacher, Anna Marti in Portland, Oregon.  She volunteers for a wonderful organization called Living Yoga (http://www.living-yoga.org) that brings yoga to people who wouldn’t normally have access to or be familiar with the benefits of yoga.  Classes are held in prisons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, shetlers and similar facilities.

I am always amazed when I see a yoga class that is not completely full. Knowing the rewards that yoga can bring, I often wonder why there are not more people doing it. Everyone can benefit from yoga, regardless of age, sex or level of physical fitness. I encourage my friends to come to classes with me but I hear the same thing over and over again, “I can’t do yoga, I’m not flexible!” I find this statement surprising. Yoga is not just about flexibility, and yoga is definitely not just for flexible people -- everyone can do yoga!