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Surrender.
There’s a quote that I heard at a yoga training I went to this September that’s been bouncing around my head for a while now. Surrender in a way that gives you power. There’s a tendency these days to...
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#whatshouldyogiscallme
When I teach a really good class: When I take a really good class: When I mess up a sequence my students are like: When I make my friend do a pose she hates she’s like: The college kids before Spring...
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Yoga is allergies?
Yoga is about cutting down extraneous movement. When you get down to the heart of it, that’s pretty much all it is. Letting go of mental movement and physical movement and raw material need. Cutting...
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Yoga is NOT just for Skinny White Girls.
I stumbled upon an article recently that I really wanted to talk about. Decolonizing YogaYoga: Not just for Young, Skinny White Girls – Decolonizing Yoga. This piece by Dianne Bondy talks about how “a...
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Please Put Clothes On – A Yoga PSA.
Dear Yogis - The weather here is finally getting warmer, which means that for whatever reason, the yoga clothes in the studio are starting to get shorter. For some of y’all, however, there’s no more...
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Exercise guilt.
It’s been a weird day here at hnwcassandra. Actually, a weird few days. I mentioned recently that I was in a bit of a yogic rut, and I’m still coming out of it. My practice recently has been extremely...
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Burn This / Becoming a yogi.
I wrote a couple articles for a start up called Burn This that has recently launched! Here’s a teaser and a link to the full article. *** As a dedicated yogi and yoga teacher, I’m often asked how I can...
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Yoga Beauty Tips.
If you’re a regular workout-aholic like I am, you know how hard it is to stay looking fresh and clean 24/7. Some days when I wake up and (miraculously) look good, I can’t bring myself to go to workout...
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Heat stroke yoga.
You may or may not have noticed, internet, that the weather on the east coast of the continent of North America has been abysmal recently. No bueno. Rain rain and more rain, a serious level of...
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#whatshouldyogiscallme2
When Baron Baptiste comes out with a new book all my friends are like: When I’m sweaty after class and I have to be in public: When I walk into the studio to teach: When I’m falling asleep in half...
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Sorry I Touched Your Boob – A Yoga PSA.
I’m just gonna jump straight into this. I touched a boob. Specifically, a stranger’s boob. No, it was not on purpose. Yes, it was a full grope situation. And no, neither of us enjoyed it. Internet,...
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Learning to Teach.
I wrote this article for BurnThis, so I legally can’t put the whole thing here. That does not, however, stop it from being worth reading, so click the link below if you dig this little blurb. *** When...
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Changes.
It is perfect out today, internet. It is startling beautiful. It is on of those days that makes me want to write poetic things about how scintillatingly blue the crystalline waters of the lake are....
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12 Things your yoga teacher thinks about during Savasana.
When I was first starting out teaching yoga, savasana (the bit at the end where you lie down and take a short “nap”) in my class was about 6 minutes long. That was due in large part to the fact that I...
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Yoga (explained by dogs).
First of all and basically more important than anything else I have to say today: My coworker brought her dogs into work today. LOOK AT THESE NUGGETS. Which pretty much my my entire life worth living....
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Your yoga brand (and why it’s important).
I’m about to get really real for a quick second. Yoga teachers are a gimmick. And it’s important that they are. Yoga teachers: Most of your students know what yoga is. Your job is not to teach them...
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Yoga Folklore.
So I went to one of my mother’s awesome yoga classes last night, internet, and I was (perhaps abstractly) struck with the similarities between folklore and yoga instruction. Admittedly, I was also...
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4 Reasons to Try Yoga – A Comic.
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Yogic office?
It turns out that I an not an introvert. Which, frankly, is startling, because I always thought I was. However, since the satellite version of my office is (long story short) dark, deserted, and I’m...
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Out of practice Yogi.
Oh god, we haven’t done Yoga Tuesday in many, many days, internet. Or possibly years. Side Note – I enjoy how dramatically my blog view went up in the TWO DAYS since NaNoWriMo ended. I GET IT. YOU...
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Workout Playlist!
Filed under: Yoga Tagged: music, playlist, workout, yoga, yoga tuesday
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