Fluidity

by jessierhines on February 11, 2012

This month at Evolutions we are working with the idea of fluidity. Yoga is unique among workouts, activities and meditations in how deeply it can help us experience fluidity in the body. The more we practice this flow on our mats, the more easily we can cultivate it in our lives, as we move from [...]

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“Ouch!” on Repeat…and how yoga helped

by jessierhines on February 7, 2012

So as some of you know from my classes, I recently got into a tussle with my car door, and ended up with stitches in my left pointer finger. (If anyone can help me understand how one slams their own finger in a door, please do–I still have literally no idea how this occurred!) Even though [...]

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Vitality

January 18, 2012 Monthly Yoga Theme

This month at Evolve Yoga we’re focusing on the idea of vitality. When I first began thinking of how I’d weave this theme throughout my classes, I considered making our yoga practice quite vigorous to increase our blood flow, working with poses that are particularly strength-building–all that good stuff. And then I got sick. And felt anything [...]

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Book Review and Personal Musings: Poser

January 3, 2012 Book Review

Welcome to one of my favorite yoga books of all time: “Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses,” by Claire Dederer. In this refreshing and witty book, Claire presents her own very human journey into the world of yoga, complete with skepticism and resistance. And yet she also paints the picture of an unfolding, an understanding, a [...]

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Preemptive Compassion

December 17, 2011 Monthly Yoga Theme

One of the hallmarks of Samarya Yoga is the work of making yoga philosophy “real”–something we can use every day, in and out of class, not sharing teachings that feel esoteric or untouchable. One of the blessings about my job is that I’m constantly looking at my daily life for personal examples to bring to my yoga [...]

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Prana-Vayu & Abundance

November 18, 2011 Monthly Yoga Theme

I began teaching at Evolve Yoga (part of Evolutions Body Clinic) last month, and am really enjoying getting to know the community and having the opportunity to teach new students. One brilliant choice the staff at Evolve makes is to collectively focus on a theme each month, to provide some cohesion to the yoga classes [...]

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