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My Spiritual Self is a Teenager

Recently I’ve been going through what I can only describe as a yoga burnout. It started with a couple of nagging injuries, and then progressed when I found myself driving an hour and a half through traffic to get to a yoga class (“why do I do this to myself?”), Ask the Yogis was a […]

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The Road to 500 | Mile 1: The Power & Pain of Five Days of Meditation

By Meryl Arnett (@merylarnettyoga) [Did you catch the first post in this series? Click here to read: The Road to 500…The Starting Line.] Those who can’t do, teach. This is a statement I’ve struggled with since becoming a yoga teacher.  Should a yoga teacher teach something they aren’t good at?  Is it my job, as a […]

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Fashion Friday: Cover-ups for Yoga

As of this weekend, we can wave goodbye to these warm temperatures (insert sad face here). In light of that, I thought I would give you some options for apres-yoga cover ups. I love to have a great cover up or sweatshirt in my yoga bag, it’s a great transition piece to go from class […]

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Interview with Octavia Raheem: The Missing Dialogue in Yoga

Octavia approached me a month or so ago about wanting to share a part of her yoga life, but nervous about how it might be taken. Seeing AYS as an open forum, I invited her to share her story as best as she could. Thankfully, she let me! 1.What first drew you to yoga and […]

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Fashion Friday: To Do or Not To Do? Padded Sports Bra

There’s a new trend in town, and there are padded cups in everything. For a girl who has a large-ish chest, I don’t really know how to approach this. I love it, but I feel like I shouldn’t wear it so I decided to bring it to Fashion Friday and have you guys weigh in. […]

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Ask the Yogis: My Co-Worker Doesn’t Understand Yoga…

Welcome to the first edition of ask the yogis. On occasion, I may do this for my own personal dilemmas, or for anything you (the yogis!) might suggest I ask. Email me if you’ve got a dilemma to pose to the community! One of my co-workers calls yoga, “fancy pants stretching,” and for the life of […]

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