Downward Dog Style: Upward or Downward Spiral?
Ever notice how when you’re going through some sort of problem, experiencing some sort of trouble or crisis, everywhere you turn that trouble is like a burning light shining straight into your eyes. Every news story, magazine article, radio broadcast, every conversation overheard at work, in the grocery store, on the street. Friends bring it...
Ever notice how when you’re going through some sort of problem, experiencing some sort of trouble or crisis, everywhere you turn that trouble is like a burning light shining straight into your eyes. Every news story, magazine article, radio broadcast, every conversation overheard at work, in the grocery store, on the street. Friends bring it...
Downward Dog Style: Face of a Joke on the Body of a Truth
Ahhh, the adopted persona…everybody’s got some sort of shtick. Maybe you’re a “that’s what she said” guy or you make funny noises a lot to entertain people. You like to pull quarters out of people’s ears or can switch hit between foreign accents for hours on end. There are tons of occasions when the shtick...
Downward Dog Style: Is Ouija in Charge?
It’s newly twenty-twelve, and I am already sensing a trend for the year. Apparently, serious reflection is going to be the MO for the coming months. And I’m finding, in just less than thirty days, this modus operandi is slowly becoming a detriment to me. In other words, I’ve been handing out quite a self-inflicted...
Downward Dog Style: Yoga Rocks the Butte
It always strikes me as odd when people on the Front Range have never visited the Western Slope. Are you kidding me? We’re still talking Colorado here. You’ve been to the Springs and not the western slope? Hmm…you may need a bit of an attitude, err, altitude? adjustment. The western slope is the prettiest part...
Downward Dog Style: New Habits or a New Start on Old Habits?
It’s almost the New Year. Twenty twelve. The end all, be all? Either way, it’s time for making goals, resolutions, plans. Whatever you call them, it’s a time for thinking about the previous year and the present moment. The changes necessary to make whatever you said was going to happen, happen, or whatever you said...
Downward Dog Style: Intuitive Knowingness & Pure Happiness—Can it be Yours this Holiday Season?
Are you genuinely happy? Ask yourself. It’s an important question to pose any time, any season. It seems somehow especially, though not more, poignant to ask it around the holidays, at the start of a new year when change or goals or plans might be welcome, may be necessary, are likely intimidating yet undoubtedly (or...
Downward Dog Style: Hey Yoga Girrrrrrrrrrl
Before we get into the raditude that is Fog and Smog’s “Yoga Girl,” 303 Magazine and Core Power Yoga are coming together for this New Year and offering a free month of yoga to one lucky person. Have you wanted to try yoga but haven’t had the time or the money…got some wicked resolutions for...
Downward Dog Style: Inaugural Live Music Flow
What we’re used to as yoga students is being in class and moving to the music the instructor has chosen. We go along with it, but if the music is live, it is bound to move you in a different way. And by move, I mean spiritually, emotionally, mentally. The live musician is strumming, singing,...
Downward Dog Style: Root of Life
Holidays, for most people, hopefully, mean time with family. Holidays make me think about where I’m from, how far away I am from there now, what I set out to do when I left years ago, and whether or not I have accomplished those things. Ultimately, was it all worth it, being this far away...
Downward Dog Style: Adjust My Goodies
Being adjusted in yoga…ahhhhhh…you know you want it. Lay your hands on me, put some good, solid pressure on my limbs, help make my body bend deeper in the pose. Please don’t give me a soft tug. That makes me feel as dirty as a limp handshake does. I took a class recently in which...
Downward Dog Style: Oh-Six-Hundred Comes ‘Round Quick
I’ve been doing a two week boot camp program at Core Power Yoga and yesterday was my final workout. What this means, basically, is that I have worked out twice a day for the last twelve. I’ve woken at 5:30 a.m. Monday through Friday to make it to the studio by 06:00 and at 7:00...
Downward Dog Style: Hoorah Bootcamp
Health, strength and agility are some of my top priorities. Actually, they are my top priorities. I may say there are other things that steer me through the day, through life, but my physical well-being reigns right now. I’m about to embark on a two-week boot camp program at my yoga studio and I read,...
