Tag: yoga
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When Goals Fail
In the beginning the most difficult yoga pose was getting in the car. I’d reached a point in my life where I always wore elastic waistbands and t-shirts so it wasn’t even a matter of finding the right clothes, my yoga pants needed to attend class. No strength is greater than the moment when I…
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The First Step
January 1, 2013 I went to my first yoga class, not because it was a New Year’s Resolution but because I had the day off from work. Yoga can mean anything from exercise based to one that is closer to meditation to yet another that is more like a celebration of life. I ended up…
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Why Yoga?
I was in a meeting at the YMCA and this woman was trying to convince me to try PiYo. She referred to it as yoga on steroids as if that is the very thing that would make take her class. I replied, “I’m not into fitness.” Given that I’m a fitness instructor at the YMCA…
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Accessible Yoga
I hear the phrase accessible yoga a lot lately. Basically I think they mean yoga that anyone can do rather than the pretzel stuff only the flexible and strong can do. I worked in a studio once and the owner gave me this advice regarding my budding yoga career, don’t let them put you in…
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