Tag Archives: Yoga Classes
Fueling Your Summer Yoga Practice
As yogis, we work hard to take care of our bodies: everything from exercise to washing and grooming (well, some of us) to choosing the proper nutrition. When it comes to food, we all have our own preferences and routines – but if there is one routine that stands above all others … breakfast!
More DetailsThe Inquisitive Yogi: Yoga Themes
A theme takes your yoga class to a level much deeper than just a stretch or a good sweat. When a class is themed around an ideal or a positive behavioural trait, you find yourself breathing and moving with a sense of sacred purpose. And not just because you have to, but because you truly want to
More DetailsThe Yoga of Sound: OM for Vibration and Resonance
Yoga is the science of reconciliation between our human nature and our divine selves –that drama of cosmological proportions that has shaped the story of humankind. Our yoga practice offers the possibility of union in a world overrun by separation, …
More DetailsThe Turning Point – By Karin Maxey
I’m a newbie. I celebrate my one-month anniversary with yoga on the 20th and look forward to many more to come. When I told a friend I’d started taking yoga classes, she was surprised I hadn’t been practicing it all …
More DetailsSemperviva Teacher Feature-Stacey Arseneau
What I love about yoga Yoga keeps me in check and unites us all. So let’s get together and breathe. I teach yoga because: There is something beautiful that happens when we share. A sort of unspoken connection. I dig …
More DetailsWhy I Love Teaching Kids’ Yoga
In my opinion, I have the best job in the world. I’m a full-time kids’ yoga teacher, and I have the wonderful fortune to look forward to going to “work” every day. When was the last time you got to …
More DetailsThe First Limb of Yoga: The Yamas by Kristen McCarthy
The Yoga of Ahimsa, Non-Violence The five Yamas represent the first limb on Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga, and are described as the universal spiritual and ethical observances of humankind. Ahimsa is the first Yama listed in the Yoga …
More DetailsThe Journey Into Yoga Teacher Training -by Kristen McCarthy
Yoga is many things to many people. For me, yoga was the discovery that the river had widened, and that I was in fact at the helm. This idea occurred to me during my yoga teacher training. I wondered how …
More DetailsJoanne Livera-Semperviva Yoga Teacher
What I love about yoga I love experiencing and exploring the stillness and the movement within my breath, body and mind. I love the grace and the beauty of the dance, I love the sense of peace I get from moving deep into my body …
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