Growing Hope’s mission is to help people improve their lives and communities through gardening and healthy food access. On March 13, Yoga Serves volunteers completely cleaned out a hoop house at Growing Hope whose name is “Kathy.” They removed many cinder blocks and planks of wood, and then carried 8 wooden planting stations in. Kathy is …
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Vieques Yoga Retreat, March 2015
At the beginning of March I had the good fortune to be able to get out of cold Michigan and attend a yoga retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico–as a student instead of a teacher! The weather was perfect and the scenery was beautiful. Highlights included staying in a gorgeous house right on the north shore …
Yoga Serves & Food Gatherers Rockin’ For The Hungry 2014
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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Lentil Kale Soup
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 …
2014 Fall Yoga Retreat at Inn at the Rustic Gate
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 …
Lake Michigan Yoga & Meditation Retreat
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 …
Yoga Serves Tilian Farm Workday
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 …
The Habit of Generosity
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 …
Yoga Serves Earth Day Project & Potluck
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 …
Birthday Donation & How You Can Help
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 …