Let’s be honest, with any luck, this isn’t something that many of us will have to deal with in our lifetime- whether it be suffering a spinal cord injury, or knowing someone who has. Then again, around 17,500 new spinal cord injuries happen each year in the United States and ...
Nowadays, it’s safe to say that yoga has hit us all. It’s everywhere. The fact that we lead lifestyles axiomatically different than the ‘ancient wisdom of health’ by yoga is known to us all. Technology has made it easier to access ways to perform yoga remotely. There are hundreds of apps and ...
Have you ever wondered what the heck is your mat made of? This is a PSA for all vets, newbies, and in-betweeners about your yoga mats. A movement has been started in the yogi community called the Plastic Free Yoga Revolution. I’m kinda hoping people use the acronyms PFYR (Fah-eye-yur) ...
This past weekend I had the JOY of attending my first yoga festival (for free!). I had no idea what to expect- Was this going to be full of Instagram-ready yogis? Would the physical practice be hard? I want to share my experience with y’all in the hopes of de-mystifying some of the ...
I am a yoga lover. I eat, sleep and breathe it. While also studying and teaching it. Every day, I thank it, for changing my life. I know many people whose lives are enriched by this broad and beautiful practice. But I also meet SO many people who still have a total misunderstanding about what ...
If you are a part-time yoga enthusiast, then you probably know at least something about the practice’s origins. However, it is important to understand the essence of each term used by yogis in order to fully emerge yourself in the lifestyle. This article will look into the twenty most ...
As a contributor to Bad Yogi Magazine, I wanted to share some of my ideas and methods for writers on what, I think, make a good yoga blog and how I start writing. The First Step: Choose your topic For me, that comes from meditation or pre-writing / journaling. What ideas have been rolling ...
Celery juice is EVERYWHERE lately. Kim Kardashian, Gwenyth Paltrow (duh), and every health and wellness influencer you follow on Instagram is currently obsessed with this stuff. I’ll be honest, I roll my eyes anytime a trend explodes in popularity as if it’s going to be the cure for ...
If you’re not a fan of strenuous exercising inside a pressure cooker, why anyone would choose to sweat their life away on a mat in a Bikram yoga class might seem a little mind-boggling. We’ve all heard the tall tales of *someone* having spent the whole of their first hot yoga class laying flat ...
The eighth chakra is a really fun one to talk about, but it can be really frustrating to honor in asana (can’t stand on your head?!… yea, me either). Let’s break it down a bit. What is the Crown Chakra? The eighth chakra is called sahasrara (pronounced sa-ha-shrara) in ...
