Free Rooftop Yoga!

May 27, 2010

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I’m so excited to share some news with you guys! Mid City Yoga and UrbanLand Company are excited to announce a distinctly urban yoga experience: Rooftop Yoga!  Overlooking U Street, the Floridian is the perfectly picturesque place to get your practice out of the studio and into the world! Come for the workout, come for the zen, [...]

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Peace and Proprioception

May 4, 2010
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When the sky is blue and the road is clear, nature has a way of making magic happen. This past Saturday, I was friend-napped by a motley gang, thrown into the back of a car, and *ahem* forced to put on a big ol’ floppy hat. As a landlocked denizen of the city who travels [...]

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In Love and Karuna

April 30, 2010

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  ~Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been burning a dark, cold flame.
This week, I spoke to my classes about one of the different kinds of yoga that exist outside of the physical, specifically touching on the yoga of the heart: Bhakti yoga. While I worked on cracking [...]

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What is Sanskrit For “Broke?”

April 27, 2010
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From the NYT Article, “A Yoga Manifesto“:
Yoga is definitely big business these days. A 2008 poll, commissioned by Yoga Journal, concluded that the number of people doing yoga had declined from 16.5 million in 2004 to 15.8 million almost four years later. But the poll also estimated that the actual spending on yoga classes and [...]

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Crossfit: Why Do I Train?

April 23, 2010

During the super sweaty and grunty high intensity portion of today’s CrossFit workout, we worked in two heats. I found myself in the second heat, and subsuqently was able to observe other people doing what I was about to go do– and the free few moments to wonder why I was about to put such a [...]

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Inner Corset Stabilization: Transverse Abdominus, Internal Obliques, and Multifidus

April 23, 2010

Have you ever sucked in your gut to create that creepy too-big-rib-cage effect? Then odds are good you’ve used a muscle called the Transverse Abdominus. The TA is an important link in the deep kinetic chain of the body that allows for power from the low body to relate and transfer into power for the [...]

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