Awakening and Discovery During the month of April, we invite you to begin to look to your yoga practice and understand it as a process of awakening and discovery. Using two of the most accessible tools of yoga, asana (poses), along with pranayama (breath), we can...
Transformation & Change By Ashley Benson, ERYT-200, YACEP If you’ve been practicing yoga for a while, you may have said, or heard a fellow yogi say, “Yoga changed my life.” For many of us, yoga has become a vehicle for deep transformation and change in our lives....
Yoga: A Journey to the Heart By Ashley Benson, ERYT-200, YACEP Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are the guiding light on our experience and journey of yoga. Yoga means Union, to bring together, to yoke. What is it that we are bringing into union? Nichala Joy Devi offers a...
Intentions & Goals By Ashley Benson, ERYT-200, YACEP Within the practice and philosophy of yoga, there is a continuous exploration into the union of doing and being. Here we can find valuable insight into the difference between goals and intentions. A goal is...
What is TrueForm? By Kristine Valentine-Miller, ERYT-500, YACEP What is the truest form for you in each yoga pose? In our training and my classes, we focus on using proper alignment to find the TrueForm for you and your body in a particular asana. When we’re behaving...