The Need to Breathe: What I Learned Teaching Yoga in High School
For the past two years, for 80 minutes a day, I have taught a semesterised Yoga class at the high school where I mostly teach History. My Yoga class draws males, females, freshmen, sophomores, juniors,...
View ArticleQ&A: What’s Intermittent Fasting?
TRIGGER WARNING. I want to kick this off by saying that if you’ve ever had an unhealthy relationship with food or diets, or if you’ve ever had an eating disorder, I want you to skip this one about...
View Article4 Newbie Yoga Teacher Mistakes (that I totally made)
I’ve been teaching yoga for a little while, long enough to have recognized and worked on some of my nervous newbie habits. And long enough to start to recognize them in other new teachers. When I came...
View Article21 Ways to Save Money to Teach Yoga Full-Time (with infographic!)
Remember Erin’s story about how she saved $$$ so that she could quit her job and focus on teaching yoga full-time? If you’re stuck in cubicle-land and can’t wait to leave it behind forever so you can...
View ArticleBad Yogi City Guide: Boston, MA
Welcome to Boston! You probably know us for our wicked snowy winters, our ubiquitous use of the word “wicked,” David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox, and, our incredible resilience and dedication to the...
View ArticleOff the Mat Yoga: 5 Ways to Live More Consciously
So much of the practice of yoga is about connecting to yourself. How can you become a more satisfied person who lives in harmony with your community and your world? There is no “Mission Accomplished”...
View Article10-Min Wonder Woman Yoga Workout (Free Class!)
This Wonder Woman Yoga Workout is exactly what we all need for a Monday. I am so obsessed with this class! I wanted to create a class that was inspired by Wonder Woman without being cheesy, and this is...
View ArticleHow to Gain Balance by Losing Balance
Yesterday was an average day: I woke up to go at work where some interesting news popped out and did lot of e-mailing. I came home at around 6:00 pm in the afternoon by car and I promised myself to go...
View ArticleFine-Tuning the Hatha Yoga Sun Salutation
Yoga uses breathing, poses and gaze to stabilize and then unify the body and mind. Practicing a Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskara) requires utmost attention to be given to these elements. An important...
View ArticleQ&A: WTF is “gut health”?
WTF is “gut health”? Gut health is a popular topic lately and it seems pretty self explanatory at first, but what does it actually mean? What do we talk about when we say “gut health” and then how do...
View ArticleBad Yogi Prenatal Yoga: The Dos and Don’ts by Trimester
The instant you find out you’re pregnant, a whirlwind of emotions take hold of you. The world begins to spin faster, your heart races, and some million-plus questions race through your head. How do I...
View ArticleBad Yogi City Guide: Nice, France
The entire French Riviera is a dream to visit and Nice is the main hub in the region. What it lacks in Yoga it makes up for in literally everything else. Here’s what you can look forward to if you ever...
View Article8 Poetry Books for Yogis
Many sacred texts throughout history were written in a poetic language or hymn. Even the Quran and the Bible read like prose poems as do numerous Hindu, Buddhist and Yogic scriptures such as the Vedas,...
View ArticleRecipe: Delicious Vietnamese Spring Rolls!
(This post is cross-posted from Amy’s food blog. Check it out!) Welcome to my version of the Vietnamese Shrimp Roll a.k.a the Asian taco in our household. I changed things up a little to suit my tastes...
View ArticleIs plastic surgery worth it to age “better”?
Plastic surgery is one of those topics that either makes you cringe or just shrug your shoulders because you could care less about it. I’m all for people doing what they want with their bodies. I don’t...
View ArticleQ&A: How did I get in shape for my wedding?!
So, how’d I get fit for my wedding? Our wedding is right around the corner (!!!) and I know I’ve been talking a little about my gym and yoga routines, but I haven’t gone into great detail. I’ve gotten...
View ArticleBad Yogi Time Magazine Cover?
This is totally not fake news 😉 This week our president taught me that you don’t even need to be asked to make the cover of Time Magazine– you can DIY it! The post Bad Yogi Time Magazine Cover?...
View ArticleWaste or Wonder?: Yoga and the Social Media Realm
Recently I was glancing through Instagram and stumbled upon a thought-provoking post. It’s point, both in image and words, was to say that yoga is different for each and every one of us and that not...
View ArticleWhy I Love The Bachelorette with No F*cks Given
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. I think that if you like Lifetime movies or adult contemporary music or whatever other thing you might get some side-eye from others about, good for you! It’s fun...
View ArticleThe Problem with Body Positivity
We’re sort of in between two different trends right now: the trend of photoshopping everything to hell, and the trend of embracing body positivity and letting what’s real take the lead. We see a lot of...
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