Downward Dog Style: Denver Gong(nam) style
According to the sleeping prophet Edgar Cayce: in the beginning, there was consciousness, then, it withdrew into itself and found a center and became aware. This was God. By vibrating Him(Her)self in different frequencies, She created matter: the stars, planets, us…everything. If you’re thinking “Whoa that’s crap no way no how,” totally fine. I use...
Downward Dog Style: Heraclitus Personified
“Aesthetically pleasing” would be an apt descriptor for most yoga studios. Step inside, tranquillity slips around the shoulders like a mind-soothing cloak of meditative relaxation–but step into The River on 12th and Delaware, and you might be confused for a moment…is it a yoga studio, or a progressive design project with the end goal being...
We Now Join This Program Already in Progress: Aspen Film Festival
Everyone knows that Aspen is where the beer flows like wine, but for one week out of the year, the dazzling shrine of upper class ski-dom shines like a jewel in the crown of a beautiful actress portraying Cleopatra on the poshest of independent screens anywhere. Los Angeles may be the mecca of all things decadent,...
Downward Dog Style: Only You Can Move Like You
How do you know when you’re doing it right? Is there some kind of internal crystalline chime that begins to ding quietly when your action of choice is being done in that, “right way?” I remember the first time I ever went to a yoga class. I was exhilarated, a little chagrined, slightly confused and fully engaged,...
Communing with the Omnipresent: an Interview with Sai Maa
It has taken me nearly three weeks to come back to earth after interviewing Her Holiness Sai Maa. Directly after leaving the hotel where she was staying, I got a text from a friend: did I ask her the question of questions, “What’s the meaning of life?”…I couldn’t remember. Not five minutes before I had...
Downward Dog Style: Bike to yoga?…Bike IN Yoga
We all know Colorado is awesome. Just last night I got into a comically stupid argument about which state is better, South Dakota or Ohio, me from SD, my friend from Ohio. As we bantered back and forth the remainder of the crew grinned in the comfort of their Colorado native status. Who cares which...
Downward Dog Style: The Comfort Zone
Finding comfort. It’s something we strive for, something we aim to accomplish with our day to day wanderings, locating a place where we can turn off the panic-stricken mind and just flow with our lives, able to go auto-pilot. Remember the scene in Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams’ Mr. Keating has a student read...
Downward Dog Style: Going Kino, YRP edition
Last Sunday amidst many beautiful yogis, I took part for the first time in YRP, and wondered how come I hadn’t gone every weekend before. Tents with beautiful clothes, mala beads, up-and-coming companies (like YogaDates), free Garbanzo’s Mediterranean food, Jamba Juice–of course, you do have to buy a ticket to get in–but hey, at $10/Sunday...
Downward Dog Style: Sun Splashed Red Rock Yoga
As a budding teacher myself, I’m the first to admit to preferring a controlled environment to teach in, a room where I can control the temperature, the lights, the music. I currently teach an outdoor class up in Stapleton, where I’m quickly learning that teaching is just as much a lesson in patience and focus...
Downward Dog Style: The One Constant
Change. In physics and mathematics it is represented by the symbol delta. Mystical aspects of certain cultures may use the ouroboros, a mix of infinity and the idea of the snake eating its own tail. Nothing can escape it. No matter what else happens in life, it is the one constant. In yoga we...
Snarf’s = Amazeballs Sandwiches
What can at once be the most simple of things and yet the most complex, something we all can make with basic ingredients or pay through the nose for gourmet preparation? The sandwich. The word is instantly recognizable and can mean literally thousands of different things. Back in the 18th century, the 4th Earl of...
Downward Dog Style: the Water of life
Water…something most of us take either completely for granted or spend very little, if any, time thinking about. We read the health benefits of eight glasses a day, buy it in bottles and turn on the tap whenever we need it, which is often, as 60% of our body weight is water. There seems to...
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