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,...
Downward Dog Style: All That Glitters
The fifth annual 303 Magazine Hair show has concluded…what a show…what a night. It’s an evening of beauty, style and, above all, artistic expression. An event filled with things that, at the foundational level, look good to the eye. Things that shine. Things that glow and prance. Personally, the hair show is a night to...
Downward Dog Style: With a Bang or a Whimper?
How do you “go out”? Out of a relationship. A friendship. A job. Life itself. These things are happening around us all, much of the time, really. The last two weeks, in some way or another, directly or indirectly, these things have happened to me. Around me. With integrity is the right answer. But how...
Downward Dog Style: Hammer Time
This is not very yogi of me, but this is what makes me a human being, after all: I got grossed out by someone, something in class last week. In a brief moment, before settling into my own intention, I caught sight of the bottoms of the feet in front of me. And what I...
Downward Dog Style: You’re Sorry, I’m Sorry, We’re All Sorry. Enough Already!
My friend made a simple observation a few days ago after taking a class at Core Power. She said to me, why do women say sorry so much in the locker room there? Hmm, good question; she’s absolutely right. I’ve noticed it myself many times before. And it bothers me. It always has. Isn’t saying...
Downward Dog Style: A (Natural) Fear of Falling
Last week, after a busy three-day mini-break filled with a road trip that covered hundreds of miles all across this gorgeous state of Cahlahrahdah, music, dancing, rodeo spectacles (and I do mean spectacles), good friends, Kerrrs Original, tasty treats, dehydration, and needing a full day to recoup because I ain’t no spring chicken, I rolled...
Downward Dog Style: “Music is What Feelings Sound Like.”
Music moves me always, is as important in my daily existence as yoga, but the last many weeks in class, the music has all but dominated my thoughts. These days it might well have the power to rouse me more than the yoga itself. Well, that could be a tiny stretch (no pun intended). It...
