Infrared light (experienced as heat) is the invisible part of the sun’s spectrum, and it has the ability to penetrate human tissue to produce a host of health benefits. It is naturally occurring from the sun and is the basis …
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Be Here Now: How Prenatal Yoga Grounds You To The Present While You’re Expecting
Be Here Now: How Prenatal Yoga Grounds You To The Present While You’re Expecting.
By: Elizabeth Carroll
When you find out you are pregnant, your brain immediately jumps to the future. Will it be a boy or a girl? What …
Why I Choose to Practice Ashtanga
by Nicole Horne
When I first started thinking about why I choose to practice Ashtanga, I had gone to my first non-Ashtanga yoga class since starting the practice with Melanie and Robert last summer. I had been officially “practicing” yoga …
Why You Should Roll Out Your Yoga Mat for the Lunch Hour
by Oksana Aston
If you have a busy lifestyle and have only one hour a day for fitness and wellness then you need our “Lunchtime Yoga” Ashtanga yoga class! The half Primary Series is a fundamental part of the Ashtanga …
The Benefits of Evening Ashtanga Practice
In Yoga Philosophy, they correlate the sunrise with expansion (principle of prana) and the sunset with involution or contraction (principle of āpana). This principle is also connected to the equinox and the solstice. All of these times are seen as …
Ayurvedic Principles for Spring by Kyle Roberts
Kyle will be teaching a workshop April 2nd and 3rd at our studio Sign up here!
The one thing that’s permanent in this world is change. The more we can accept change the more peacefully we can move through life. …
Making Offerings to Energize Your Practice
During the first couple of weeks of the year, with the New Year just arrived, it is highly auspicious to energize your new goals and priorities by making an offering of flowers or fruit to the altar of Sri Ganesha …
A Delicious Vegetarian Recipe for the Holidays (with Vegan Alternatives)
Four Unexpected Benefits of Ashtanga Yoga
The benefits of Ashtanga yoga are like no other. To make sure you get the most out of this powerful practice, it is crucial to get as close to the source as possible. Melanie Fawer studied under Pattabhi Jois, the …
The Guna’s, Mardi Gras and Ashtanga Yoga
In New Orleans, Fat Tuesday is like a second New Year and a second chance to reboot healthy good intentions. Our previous blog referenced the Gunas — Rajas, Tamas and Sattva, that is the qualities that run through all of