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Saturday June 18, 2017 was a celebration in San Diego for the International Day of Yoga. Sponsored/organized by local studio Pilgrimage of the Heart in conjunction with a number of other yoga studios and local/regional sponsors, 500 practitioners of yoga of the body/mind/spirit gathered to celebrate peace, unity, breath, sunshine, life and love! Accessible Yoga Ambassador/RYT/ Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner Jo-San Arnold and I partnered together for the second year to teach Adaptive Yoga for special needs, and this year we added Chair Yoga for Every Body. The festival asked us to offer four half-hour breakout sessions to coincide with their other workshops and we were happy to oblige. Jo-San had friends from Great Paces  come down to enjoy the morning sessions. We emphasize that our style of yoga is NOT just for those with the special needs but also for the caregivers as well, giving everyone and opportunity to stretch and strengthen, to take a break, to reconnect with their bodies...

Graphic gleaned from  http://www.yoga-manchester.co.uk/2016/03/10/pride-in-the-name-of-yoga-by-vicken-couligian/ . Happy Pride San Diego! Equality!

I tend to play a weird (wide) variety of music in my classes and get queries all the time about the artists. So, here are some of the ones that have inspired the most questions. Song Title Artist Album "1234" Feist Animal Party Karen K And The Jitterbugs Big Ol' Truck Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz) The Laurie Berkner Band Buzz Buzz Catch The Moon Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb For The Kids Too Celebrate Love in Your Family Beebo Bunch of Songs Doodlebugs The Laurie Berkner Band Whaddaya Think of That? Fast and Slow (The Rabbit and the Turtle) The Laurie Berkner Band Rocketship Run Fly Me to the Moon The Laurie Berkner Band Rocketship Run Here Comes the Sun The Beatles Joy to the World (Edit) Three Dog Night The Best of Three Dog Night Jump and Fly The Laurie Berkner Band Rocketship Run My Family The Laurie Berkner Band My Family - Sin...

Received a nice communique via the interwebs the other day asking if I'd be so kind as to link to their comprehensive (well, 50-odd mat sampling) review of yoga mats. How could I not oblige? So please, click through and check out the top 10 of the 50 most popular mats, that include links for purchase (how convenient). You can buy cheap yoga mats at just about any place these days, even your local pharmacy or Target, but if you want lasting quality, minimal VOC (off-gassing), good grip, durability, and if weight (or color or texture or material) is a concern, it helps to have a really good guide. Especially when prices go from the sublime ($12) to the ridiculous ($150 for custom paint jobs). From their email, based on my comments about the Manduka yoga mat I reviewed back in 2015 http://byomyoga.blogspot.com/2012/07/yoga-consumerism-where-i-tell-you-about.html ). Enjoy. "I work for a small research team ( Reviews.com ), and we recently conducted an unbiased review of yoga mats,...

(copied from THIS link ) Imagine you have a friend small enough to fit in your purse or briefcase who will give you nightly massages, easing stress, fatigue, and muscle tension all for a onetime cost of about $3. Think yellow. Think tennis balls. The procedure is simple: place a tennis ball on a part of the body that is sore or tight and rest your weight on it. The pressure softens tight muscles and increases circulation. Dancers have long used tennis ball self-massage to work out their kinked-up muscles, and body workers frequently prescribe the practice for clients healing from chronic injuries. Asana practitioners searching for ways to increase flexibility and comfort in their bodies are beginning to get on the ball, too. Self-massage with tennis balls is greatly enhanced by stretching, which further increases circulation and reeducates the muscles to rest at a longer length. Combining asana with self-massage is particularly useful for those of us who have muscles that for various r...

1) A few tips on how to best use a yoga strap (aka, belt). https://www.doyouyoga.com/10-ways-to-use-the-yoga-strap-with-photos-55570/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ocWNpZvhg http://www.bodywindow.com/yoga-strap.html 2) A little bit here on how to release that deep hip flexor (that one that lets you lift your leg in front of you when walking, climbing stairs, or even helping to hold you upright) that can give you back pain if it's too tight: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/release-tension-in-the-psoas 3) And how to get your legs and upper body and arms active in Triangle Pose so you never lean toward the ground, but always lift up (and avoid knee problems as well). https://yogainternational.com/article/view/why-its-so-easy-to-hyperextend-your-front-knee-in-triangle-pose-and-ho

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