Warrior II I know what you’re thinking – eight yoga classes in seven days? Why? Is that healthy? Isn’t that a little…obsessive? Yoga is totally healthy to do at least once a day. As for the obsessive part, I’ve been playing a little game of catch up. This past Sunday, I graduated from the CorePower […]
Teacher Training According to an American study done by Yoga Alliance for 2016: There are over 36.7 million U.S. yoga practitioners 34% of Americans say they are likely to practice yoga during the next year 80 million more Americans will likely try yoga for the first time in 2016 Students spend $16 billion per year […]
Teacher Training In our Group Session tonight we learned about another tool we can use to help balance our life. In addition to regular yoga practice yoga, balancing chakras and learning about the Eight Limbed Yogic Path, we were introduced to Ayurveda. Ayurveda is a form of holistic medicine. It’s a healing system that treats […]
Teacher Training So far, Week #5 has been the toughest week of yoga teacher training for me so far. I started off this week feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Almost borderline feeling like I was going to get sick. The overwhelming feelings started this week with my drive into work on Monday morning. As I sat […]
Teacher Training If I had to pick the perfect class to take right after a Hot Power Fusion class, it would be CoreRestore, CorePower Yoga’s version of Yin Yoga. My husband and I stayed for Mandy’s CoreRestore class tonight, right after taking Hot Power Fusion with Christine. CoreRestore is a 75-minute yoga class where we […]
Teacher Training Long gone are my days of unwinding from the workweek in a bar over a cocktail or two or three. These days, my favorite way to unwind from the workweek is in a restorative yoga class. CorePower Yoga has this fantastic class called CoreRestore: Restorative Yoga. It’s a 75-minute Yin Yoga-inspired class filled […]
Teacher Training Tonight after observing Sunny’s Hot Power Fusion class, I stayed for her Yoga Sculpt class to be an active participant. I was worried I’d be super exhausted and sore from snowshoeing the day before at the Yoga, Snow & Wine event. I was so worried about it, I warned Sunny when I checked […]
30 Day Challenge, Yoga FAQs Taking one Bikram Yoga class each day for 30 days is amazing on so many levels. Most people associate a 30 day challenge with wanting to lose weight. Bikram Choudhury, founder and creator of the Bikram Yoga series and sequence says, “Give me 30 days, I’ll change your body…” It’s […]
Teacher Training I started off my Saturday morning in a Yoga Sculpt class with Sunny. This was the first Saturday morning Yoga Sculpt class I’ve been to where the entire room wasn’t completely packed. Where was everybody? I guess when the sun is out and its warm outside, people don’t want to get their sweat […]
Teacher Training I remember signing up for Carly Hayden’s indoor SUP yoga class way back in February, a week before I started my yoga teacher training at CorePower Yoga. I knew ahead of time that as part of my 60-yoga class graduation requirement for CorePower Yoga, I’d need to take three yoga classes outside of […]
Teacher Training Tonight’s Hot Power Fusion class was especially special for a couple of different reasons. First off, I hit a CorePower Yoga Teacher Training milestone. Tonight’s class was the 16th Hot Power Fusion class I’ve taken during my training. This means I’ve completed the Hot Power Fusion class part of my graduation requirement of […]
Teacher Training Today was a milestone in my yoga teacher training journey. We hosted a Hot Power Fusion community class this afternoon at the CorePower Yoga Greenwood studio. I got to teach half of it! Normally in a bigger sized group for the Extensions Program, I’d only get to teach a small portion of the […]
Teacher Training Tonight was another double dose of yoga with Sunny at CorePower Yoga. My husband and I took Sunny’s Hot Power Fusion class at 4:30 and then stayed for her Yoga Sculpt class at 6PM. Two hours of back-to-back yoga sounds like a daunting task, but I enjoy doing this double combo each week. […]
Teacher Training Last night, I introduced my 12-year-old niece, Carmen to yoga. I had been telling her about my recent experience with yoga teacher training at CorePower Yoga. She got super interested and wanting me to lead her in a yoga class so she can see what I’ve been up to over the last seven weeks. […]