Health Bent: Nutritionist and Yogi Aim to Cleanse You with Nourish
Home interiors get cleaned. Car interiors get detailed. Our bodies are infinitely more important, right?. So why are showers the only personal cleaning regimen that most of us undergo? What about our interiors? How can we clean them? Drinking lots of water is never a bad idea, but Antonia Lafaye and Cher Aslor have some...
Health Bent: Kindness Yoga’s Cameron Dabney Leads Camel for Boston
I can barely remember a time when I didn’t know Kindness Yoga’s Cameron Dabney. Rarely have I been more proud of her than I was today, though. “On Monday, the goddess Kali rained,” Dabney began her noon class at Kindness’ South Broadway location. “Emotions were many and varied, from anger to confusion to fear. The...
Figuring Out Fit: There’s No Crying in Hot Yoga
It all started with a text message. “Hot yoga tomorrow at 9 a.m. You in?” “Yeah! I’ll pick you up at 8:15.” I guess I have to go now. Dammit. Hot yoga has become increasingly popular in the workout world and has been sparking my interest for quite some time, I’ve just always been too...
Health Bent: Kindness Yoga’s Patrick Harrington Addresses Studio Moniker
Patrick Harrington is a yoga Yoda. Much like a minister might, Harrington chooses a word or concept to meditate on and analyze in class each week. Intuition and circumstance often influence his decision. Kindness was the focus recently. Considering it’s the moniker of his studios, it’s hardly surprising Harrington had some profound thoughts. “In our...
Health Bent: Jordan New Fuses Breakdance & Yoga for Urban Flow
At first glance, the ego eradication of yoga might seem the polar opposite of breakdancing’s intrinsic showoff swagger. Anyone familiar with both knows the two disciplines share a few moves, though. Consider side crow pose, which is strikingly similar to one of the most common stalls executed by b-boys in the midst of floorwork. Handstands...
Hindsight: Friday Night Yoga Club @ Kindness
My Friday night could have gone in several different directions. There was the toga party in north Denver. Or onetime Mile High club DJ Sense at Norad Dance Bar downtown. But I was powerless to resist the pull of Kindness. Kindness can have that effect on people. Every body deserves it. Few get enough. While...
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: Hurricane Sandy and How Yoga Works
Being in Brooklyn during Hurricane Sandy reminded me of a “life lesson,” if you will, I’ve been working on the last many years. To put it more accurately, been working on stopping from happening the last many years. It’s the concept of believing your “experience” is everyone’s experience, that your experience is the experience. When...
Downward Dog Style: BUTI—This Ain’t Yo’ Mama’s Yoga
What do you do when you’ve reached the pinnacle of your yoga practice? When you’ve become the most enlightened you can possibly be. You have no obstacles left to understand, no mistaken worldview to correct…when there is nowhere else to go in understanding how yoga works? When you have reached Nirvana, exploration is over. When you are...
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...
Downward Dog Style: Help. Choking. Can’t. Breathe.
Pop quiz, Good Samaritans! What do you do when someone’s choking? What would you do, rather? Would you respond? Would you panic? There are a couple of mostly easy, certainly viable techniques that come to mind in an emergency situation. 1. The Heimlich maneuver, even if we’re not supposed to use that term anymore. So, to be copyright accurate,...
Downward Dog Style: Over the Bar Scene?
Picture this: it’s Friday night. You’re headed out. Could be to Don’s Mixed Drinks, could be Beta. Maybe Beauty Bar or Euclid Hall or Four Seasons or Linger or The Irish Rover or Green Russell or City Hall. Whatever your flavor, the night is young, the potential is there…but…what do you do when you’re bored with the...
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