It’s red carpet season out in Hollywood with award shows like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, and in true red carpet spirit, The Daily Downward Dog studio is rolling out its red yoga mats and finest yoga wear in support of the second annual YOGAR awards. What are the YOGARS, you ask? Just a [...]

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“Forget your selfishness, make others happy, and you will be the happiest person. By seeing others happy, you can’t be unhappy. But by making everyone unhappy, you can never be happy yourself. So, at least for your happiness, bring happiness to others.” – Sri Swami Satchidananda, from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali I had just [...]

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A Yoga Epiphany

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January 17, 2012

I love it when I go to a yoga class where something the teacher says really speaks to me. A few weeks ago, I attended a class taught by Jennifer Bishop and experienced quite the yoga epiphany. While reaching our arms up and overhead in utthita parsvakonasana (extended side angle pose), Jennifer talked about the [...]

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A Lasting Lecture

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January 12, 2012

The theme in my yoga classes this week came from the book The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I guess you could say I’m a little late in getting to this material since the book was published in 2008, but what the heck. I use The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as class themes all of [...]

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Confessions of a Bikram Virgin Part 2

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This past year, I’ve done my best to try out lots of different flavors of yoga. If you read my post yesterday, you know that a week ago I got to have my very first Bikram yoga experience at Bikram Yoga Cleveland, and trying Bikram was more than just trying out a new flavor; it [...]

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Confessions of a Bikram Virgin

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I love the Twitter yoga community. Have a question, need advice…? Just put it out there, and the Twitter universe will deliver the answer. That was the case last week when I posted about how excited I was to be attending my first Bikram yoga class at the new Bikram Yoga Cleveland, which recently opened [...]

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Yoga Fashion Alert: Rock Star Capris and Ruching!

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Rockstar Capris  I’ll be forever grateful to my older brothers for taking me to my very first rock concerts. By the same token, I’ll be forever grateful to Mondetta Performance Gear (MPG) for turning me on to my very first pair of rock star skintight yoga pants. Both events were not only life changing but [...]

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Intentions are the New Resolutions

December 28, 2011
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It’s that time of year again, when the dreaded “R” word threads its way into our vernacular. A new year is about to commence, bringing with it a rapidly spreading fever and overwhelming desire to declare our resolutions. And, yes, I’ve caught the fever too, as I’ve already posted my dream poses for 2012. For [...]

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Asana Wishes and Handstand Dreams

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Do you have a yoga asana (pose) that you dream of doing? Maybe it’s adho mukha vrksasana (the elusive handstand) or a challenging arm balancing asana like bakasana (crow or sometimes called crane) or astavakrasana (eight-angle) pose. It’s the time of year where I do a lot of dreaming and goal setting, so I thought [...]

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Smileasana

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“Let us all meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”  -Mother Teresa “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”      -Tich Nhat Hanh   I recently led a whole yoga class wrapped around the power of [...]

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