I love the idea of yoga first thing in the morning. There’s something romantic about waking up your body in time with the rise of the sun. In reality, I’m really not a morning person. What some may call an invigorating morning yoga practice, I might call a semi-lucid series of physical events. I’m pretty useless […]
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Yoga and weight training go together like peanut butter and jelly. Weight training is definitely the peanut butter here. It’s heavy and hard to eat, but still healthy and satisfying. Add some jelly to that bad boy and it’s a whole lot easier to eat – and far more delicious. Yoga is the jelly of the physical […]
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It’s time to clear some things up. For too long, yoga has been bogged down by ridiculous myths and mistaken views. I guess it comes with the territory. Yoga has a certain mystique about it. But these yoga myths are rarely even about the practice itself. They tend to be assumptions about the people who practice it. I want […]
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You’ll hear all sorts of weird and wonderful yoga lingo at yoga class. Some of it is ancient and deeply rooted in tradition. A lot of it is new age spiritual stuff. All of it is unusual. It’s also rapidly evolving and expanding, with new ideas and interpretations arising every day. Which makes it all the more […]
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Yoga class. The last uncharted territory for the modern man. It might seem like a strange blend of flowing, chanting, and incense smelling – and it is. But there’s nothing to fear, and there’s everything to gain. I remember my first yoga class. It made me wonder if this is how women feel like entering the weights room […]
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Yoga is a little different for men right? I mean sure, it needn’t be. After all, it’s the same poses for everybody. But in reality, we face our own unique challenges both on and off the mat. Sometimes it feels like we’re a stiff square peg trying to fit in an impossibly bendy round hole. Wait, that sounds […]
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