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Sep 5, 2013 |
I’m asking for your help today – if you can contribute a few seconds of your time, it will help me spread the joy of yoga! I’d love it if you could head over to http://bit.ly/voteforyoga to watch a short video, and if you like it, give it a vote.
This video is the combined dream of Stephanie Spence and me, one that we hatched when we met for the first time last year. We want to travel across the United States and teach yoga to as many people as we can to help spread the word about the healing and transformational benefits of yoga and meditation. Our classes will be open to the public, but we’re aiming to have as many of them as we can nearby military bases so we can reach current military personnel, their families, and veterans. If we can get the classes on a beach or outdoors, all the better!
We have submitted our video into the Ford Fusion Energi Ultimate Road Trip Adventure contest. If we win, we’ll get the opportunity to take a road trip in a new Ford Fusion Energi and be filmed for a reality TV show. This hybrid car is super fuel efficient, so we should be able to hit quite a few cities and reach countless yogis. The car has a state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery pack and electric motor with a gasoline engine ad with a full take of gas and when fully charged, the driving range is an EPA-estimated 620 miles (electric and gas combined). Yowza – that is awesome!
When I heard about the contest, Stephanie was the first person I called, and we jumped at the opportunity to use this vehicle (pun intended) to help us give legs to our idea.
So how did this grand plan come about? It’s actually a fun story! Stephanie and I initially met through following each other on Twitter. We have quite a bit in common – we’re both avid social media mavens and bloggers, yoga teachers, writers, and loving life in our 50s. When I was heading to Phoenix last year, I reached out to Stephanie for the scoop on the local yoga studios I should visit, and she led me to my very first wall yoga class and even took the time to interview me for her Tales of the Traveling Yogini series (soon to be a bestselling book)!
After hanging out together on a yoga wall, we had coffee, confessed our mutual desire to combine our passions for yoga, travel, and adventure, and vowed to someday find a way to take our road trip.
Not only do we believe we will win this contest, we’re also hopeful that Ford will continue to sponsor us so we can keep these free yoga and meditation classes going long past the time the designated prize budget runs out.
If you really, really like the sound of our project, please go back a couple of times – or every day until September 30 – and vote again and again! After you watch the video there is the opportunity to get bonus votes by watching videos about the Ford C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi hybrid automobiles, so if you have a few extra moments to get the bonus votes for us, that would be awesome and greatly appreciated.
Sending out big hugs and thanks for your time and help in making this dream and ultimate yoga road trip a beautiful reality! I’m putting it out there into the universe and BELIEVING!!
The deadline to vote is September 30, 2013…click here to watch the video and VOTE! If you really, really like it, share it with your friends as well so we can get even more support to offer FREE yoga classes.
Feb 22, 2012 |
What an incredible concept: Yoga Bliss Akron celebrates their 1-year birthday, and yoga aficionados around Northeast Ohio get the goods. The goods come in the form of an all-star line-up of yoga classes and workshops that are being offered on Saturday, February 25 for FREE!
Yeah, I said FREE!
To give you an idea of the yogaliciousness of this event, check out the list of classes. There is something for every level of student. If you have been wanting to try a new form of yoga, are curious about meditation, or are wondering what all the talk about Thai massage is about, you must check out a few of these classes.
Bliss Day Festivities at Yoga Bliss Akron
9:00 AM Blissful Power
9:15 AM Flowing with the Seven Spiritual Laws
10:15 AM Detoxing through Breath, Twists, and Backbends
10:30 AM Therapeutic Yoga
11:30 AM Core Power
11:45 AM Slow Burn & Yoga Nidra
12:45 PM Inversions & Arm Balances
1:00 PM Introduction to Meditation
2:00 PM Hip Opening Class
2:15 PM Pranayama & Yoga Basics
3:15 PM Floating
3:30 PM A Taste of Thai Massage
4:30 PM The Five Tibetan Rites
4:45 PM Living Yoga, Living Love
Classes shown in bold will be held in the spacious and balmy hot studio, and the other classes will be held in the basics studio, which is kept at 70 degrees.
For more details on each of these classes, please visit the Yoga Bliss website and check out the schedule for Saturday, February 25. Yoga Bliss is located at 3045 Smith Road, Suite 300, in Akron, Ohio, directly behind Summit Mall.
I am thrilled for Yoga Bliss Akron and am also so grateful to Caroline for offering me the opportunity to teach at this beautiful studio. It has been an incredible year, and it’s been really fun to witness the community of students, teachers, and staff blossom and grow.
Happy Birthday, Yoga Bliss Akron! Here’s to another awesome year of blissful yoga to come (and many more)!
Sep 3, 2010 |
Wednesday, September 1 was the kickoff of National Yoga Month, and you’ve got 28 days left to get into the festivities. The purpose of National Yoga Month is to create awareness about the many benefits of yoga and hopefully encourage Americans to get out there and give yoga a try!
If you’ve always wanted to try it but don’t know where to start, here are two great programs going on this month to get you onto a yoga mat.
1) You absolutely must visit the Yoga Month Web site. They have links to hundreds of free classes and events and a list of over 1200 yoga studios nationwide offering one free week of yoga.
2) If you would rather try yoga out in the comfort of your home, My Yoga Online is offering free online training sessions. My Yoga Online is a premium on-demand subscription service for yoga and wellness videos. They offer one of the largest and most diverse mind-body video and article libraries in the world. The cool thing is that their classes fit your schedule—you can log on at anytime, from anywhere, and have access to the perfect class for you. If you have always wanted to try My Yoga Online, now’s your chance to check it out for free before you sign up.
I’m personally celebrating National Yoga Month by setting some new intentions for my yoga practice and have a personal goal to do a headstand by the end of the month. I’ll also keep you posted on additional Yoga Month activities and helpful tips to get you started on your very own yoga journey.
With all these festivities and FREE classes, there really is no excuse to give it a try!
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