On September 27-29, 16 yogis and yoginis shared a weekend of beautiful weather, delicious food, great yoga and wonderful hospitality at The Yoga Room’s Annual Fall Yoga Retreat at Inn at the Rustic Gate in Big Rapids, MI. Highlights included Yin, Energy Flow, Partner & Ashtanga Yoga classes, lots of wildlife sightings (from snakes and …
Kundalini Yoga & Gong Workshop with Billie Wahlen
Tuesdays, October 15 & 22, 2013 7-8:15pm $15/class. Space is limited; pre-registration is required to reserve your spot. Kundalini Yoga consists of exercises or postures (Asana) combined with special breathing (Pranayama), hand and finger gestures (Mudra), body locks (Bhanda), chanting (Mantra) and meditation, together and in sequence to create exact and specific effects. Kundalini …
Janice
Earlier this weekend one of my longest-standing yoga students passed away. Some of you may have known Janice from the Monday 5:45 Vinyasa class that she currently attended, or the Saturday 10am Energy Flow class of several years back. She had been coming to The Yoga Room since I started teaching here in 2004. …
Flexibility
We began a new session this past week at The Yoga Room, and our theme for this session is Wisdom from the Virtues Cards. This deck of cards was given to me a few years ago by a yoga student. The Virtues Project is a global grassroots initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in …
The Yoga Room Wins 2nd Year in a Row!
In case you haven’t heard the exciting news yet, The Yoga Room won Best Yoga Studio in Washtenaw County in Current Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards – for the 2nd year in a row! I am very honored and humbled that so many of my students took the time to vote for me. Here’s …
Earth Day Project 2013 – Virginia Park Tree Planting
For our annual Earth Day project this year, 10 hardy Yoga Serves volunteers (plus a toddler and The Yoga Room’s mascot, Annie the dog) came out on a chilly but sunny Sunday morning to help out Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation by planting some native fruit trees at Virginia Park and doing some general clean-up. …
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Spring Cleaning: Digestion & Detoxification
This week my intention for our yoga classes here at The Yoga Room was to revitalize the major organs and systems in the body that aid in the detoxification process. Those major detox players are the lymph, blood, liver, kidneys, colon and parasympathetic nervous system. Lymph and blood deliver waste products to the liver, kidneys …
Spring Cleaning: Kapha
In Ayurveda, health is defined as the dynamic state of balance between mind, body, and environment. It is possible for each of us to achieve and maintain a vibrant and joyful state of health by identifying our mind-body type and then creating a lifestyle that sustains and nurtures our unique nature. There are 3 different …
Spring Cleaning: Apana
The tradition of Spring Cleaning can be extended to yoga practice on a multitude of levels. Physically, it is important to recognize the body’s energy systems, and how they respond to seasonal cycles. Our lower bodies are the location of waste energy, or apana. Other ways to describe apana are a heaviness, dullness, or lethargy. …
Spring Cleaning: Tapas & Agni
This post was edited March 2022 to add more content. Sorry, no, I’m not talking about spanish food! The tapas I am referring to here is the discipline, effort, challenge or sometimes even hardship that we go through for the sake of change, growth or to move forward. It is a fiery resolve, pointed strength, …