Food Gatherers reached its goal of collecting 200 tons of food at Rockin’ For the Hungry during our Yoga Serves’ shift this past Saturday! A big thanks to our 5 hardy volunteers: Maggie, Cathy, Carissa, Megan and Carole!
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My 4:30 Hatha class asked me what smelled so good when they came in to the yoga studio yesterday. It was my first batch of Lentil Kale soup of the season! I love this recipe because it is healthy, tasty and easy. I was asked to share the recipe (which I’ve had forever, cut out …
The Yoga Room’s annual Fall Yoga Retreat was another success this year with beautiful weather, delicious food, great yoga and wonderful hospitality from the innkeepers at Inn at the Rustic Gate in Big Rapids, MI. Highlights this year included Yin, Energy Flow, and Ashtanga Yoga classes, plus a Partner Yoga class outdoors! We also enjoyed …
I recently had the pleasure of hosting a weekend Yoga & Meditation Retreat on the shores of Lake Michigan for some fellow yoga teachers, long-time students and some of their family members. Our yoga practices consisted of flowing morning Vinyasa on the deck to wake and warm us up, and mellow late-afternoon Yin yoga and …
Five Yoga Serves volunteers spent this past Saturday afternoon out at Tilian Farm Development Center, helping two new farmers (of Arbor Hills Farm) get their greenhouse ready for planting. We spent a few hours preparing the soil to be tilled by weeding and picking up rocks. Although it was physically demanding and might not sound …
This week started off our 8 Habits of Love yoga session, based on the book of the same name by Ed Bacon. This chapter was about the Habit of Generosity, and spoke to the understanding that all our decisions and actions come from either a place of fear or a place of love. We can …
Thanks to the eight volunteers who came out for our Annual Earth Day Project, sprucing up Hollywood Park next to Abbot Elementary School! We picked up trash and cut down invasive buckthorn and honeysuckle, then took a nice walk through the woods with our Natural Area Preservation leader and headed back to The Yoga Room …
For my birthday this month I am making donations to two organizations I learned about while on my recent trip to Honduras. While in Roatan, my husband and I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of two American couples–one that runs Casa de Ester, which is a safe house in the capital city of …
We were giving ourselves lots of self-loving this Valentine’s weekend at our Block Party Muscle Release Workshop! We got into those chronically tight places with the help of cork yoga blocks. It hurt so good! :)
Friday, January 17, 7-9pm Join us at the start of the New Year on an inward journey of healing and deep relaxation. This workshop will begin with some Kundalini yoga, chanting and discussion. Then, lying in Savasana (corpse pose), the group will be guided by the mystical healing tones of the Nibiru Gong on …
