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I’ve been trying to work on being more committed to my yoga practice lately and with that comes not only seeing what I feel like my strengths are but also what I face as challenges in my practice day today. Currently, I attend yoga three times a week. What I have been noticing as my […]
One of the final pieces of advice our teachers gave us when we completed the ACCESS teacher training program was to stay in the learning. As a new teacher, that made sense to me. After all, I was new. The ACCESS program covered a ton of ground, but I also had plenty of learning left […]
This question was asked of me by a student the other day. She specifically wanted to know why we worked from the same sequence every class, and why the room was heated to the temperature that it is. I found myself easily able to answer what I saw as technical questions about the heat and […]
Downward dog. Child’s pose. Cat. Camel. Those are the only four poses I knew before I began yoga in February 2017. Like many yogis, I NEVER expected to take a class and stick with it. I am an athlete. I am a runner. I like high-intensity workouts and competition. I was intimated to take yoga […]
Newton’s First Law of Motion: A body in motion will stay in motion. More precisely, an object moving at a constant velocity stays in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. (Thanks, NASA.) I’ve heard this law often used as encouragement for routine. For example, going straight from work to […]
If you frequent any EPY studio, you’ll know that Points for Presence pops up every July. It’s a time to throw some fun hearted competition into the mix between studios and see at the end of the month how many total visits each studio got. For me, this July marked one year of me being […]
As a new yoga teacher, I taught my first class with joy and gratitude. This was the opportunity I had prepared for, practiced for, waited for. To my surprise, I had very few butterflies. Fast forward a few weeks, and my nerves kicked in. Was it a fluke? Was I doing OK? Why aren’t my […]
When you’re a first-time yogi and the teacher cues a bind in wide-legged, side-facing forward fold, do not make dubious eye contact with your friend on the way down. That is, unless you want to catch the giggles (and the wobbles). You want me to do what with my body? That was 10 years ago. […]
