You are invited to take on the yoga challenge: twenty yoga classes in thirty days. But beyond these numbers, you are invited to a second challenge. Yoga practice is more than goal attainment, it is a balancing tool, and you are invited to strike a balance between the work and play of your practice.
When I started teaching yoga, it was a natural thing to be thinking about how yoga and music are related. If we say yoga is an act of joining the mind, body, and heart; my first experiences with that feeling was through dancing to live music.
Preparing for the glory, or heartbreak, of your own Olympic moments. Using curiosity and compassion to build their character, so your teen can go for their dreams I love the Olympics. I grew up dreaming about playing Olympic hockey. I love the stories, dreams, and drama of the athletes. I imagine myself in each performance and…
It’s a 4-week series, and each week we’re going to focus on the health and specific alignment of different parts of the body. This series will help women create more strength and flexibility during pregnancy, to prepare them for birth and beyond.
Kate Baldwin explains how her affordable ‘Gentle Yoga for Everyone’ classes offer unique pain management for seniors, people with chronic pain, and, well, everyone.
Remember that we’re on a quest to understand how to discover the Real You. You can share comments and questions on the Play Huge blog. Our guy in the orange shirt on the rock looking exuberant, lets say, has found the Real You, or at least has prepared for the journey of discovery. In the old times, when…
Kiara Boch shares about learning flow, pranayama, and new perspectives from renowned yoga instructor Shiva Rea.
How do you find your purpose? I have taken the depth of this question for grated for a long time, but I realize that I am deeply curious about this inquiry and exploring it deeply is a pursuit I think the world needs. My work with teenagers is motivated by my desire to make the world…
Instructor Dana Rivkin shares about teaching yoga to teenage girls through Yoga Union’s empowering 10-week Teen Yoga series.
Todd Vogt shares with Jenna Lynne Roberts about the history of hot yoga at Yoga Union, and the benefits of a heated practice. How did you get into hot yoga? Hot yoga is how Yoga Union got started. It was primarily a hot yoga studio in the very beginning. It was why people came to Yoga…
Our Chinese medicine practitioner and yoga teacher Kileen Swenson explains the similarities and differences between yoga and qi gong to the Yoga Union community. Yoga is part of Ayurveda, as qi gong is an aspect of Chinese medicine. Historically, yoga and qi gong have different movements and postures and focus, but they both similarly use the…
Yoga teacher and Chinese medicine practitioner, Kileen Swenson, sat down with Jenna Lynne Roberts to talk about these ancient healing medicines. How did you become a Chinese medicine practitioner? My interest in Chinese medicine came from teaching yoga and seeing how yoga affected people so profoundly, including myself. Being an introvert, teaching didn’t feel like I…
After a long break over the summer it is getting close to the next part of the Awakening Heart Intensive with Sianna Sherman at Yoga Union. This has been a truly amazing summer for me. I have been busy teaching a whole lot and at the same time hiking, camping, swimming and enjoying the natural wonders…
Each time the yogi gets a taste of union with all things, she is rewired with greater sensitivity to the joys and the suffering of the world, and her compassion grows deeper. The effect over time is cumulative. Each experience is a little more real and results in a greater appreciation for the intricacy and preciousness of life, a desire to live it with higher regard, and a passionate lifestyle better aligned with the understanding that all things are connected.
Angelina Vasile shares with us about the power of breathing properly in your yoga practice and your daily life. How did you come to find yoga? I was a dancer and came to Pilates through my dance studies. I quickly got interested in injury prevention and recovery in my Pilates teaching. I started working in a…
Then, the middle of the day hits and I feel with my entire being that I NEED yoga. So I’ll do a little backbend in my office chair, a headstand if the energy is already gone, and breathe deep because I know in just a few short hours I will be back at my sons school…
As part of the Awakening Heart Intensive we are encouraged to do a cleanse and 40 days of committed practice. Sianna says “40 days of committed sadhana is one of the most transformational gifts you can offer to your own great being.” She gave us a list of practices for morning, mid-day and evening and a…
This month, we sat down to chat with Vinyasa instructor Rocky Heron to learn more about this area of specialty and why he loves the practice of yoga. How did you discover Vinyasa yoga? I started Vinyasa yoga when I was 18, I was living in LA and I was going to school for performing arts. A…
Paul Muller-Ortega has a way of relaying information and wisdom through story telling and the use of colorful adjectives and pronouns, contagious enthusiasm and bubbling excitement about the opportunity of living life with a heightened awareness and applying that to practical use in order to live life to the fullest potential.
notes from the talk with Portland’s own, Shambhavi Sarasvati, who gave a talk to the group during the first part of the Intensive back in April. Shambhavi is the the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, and has written several books on Tantra in the Kashmir Shaivism tradition. When describing Tantra she says she is almost tired of the word, but not the practice… “Tantra is a way to find out who you really are and to live in the fullness of Reality. This is Self-realization. Nothing more or less.”
