Last night in Vinyasa ~ L2…

I get these great messages from you all on a daily basis. And this
one I just had to share. Anyone who was in class last night will
surely appreciate:

Wanna hear something funny? This week in my home practice I
wanted to see what would happen if I practiced a most-hated pose,
which is Vira III. Hate it especially when the arms are stretched out.
Any balance pose is hard for me since I gave up contacts and practice
half-blind, add the ridiculously anti-gravity arm position, the foot that
wants to sickle, tight hamstrings….the… Read the rest

Third Birthday Fundraiser

Namaste!

Time flies when you’re having fun, right? This weekend we will celebrate the end of our third year of yoga in downtown Raleigh. And it has been a lot of fun! But more on that, later.

Last year, our fund raising efforts were directed to the Nepal House Society. During our “Blue Turns Two” fund raising weekend, the blue lotus yoga community raised over $5000 to support a therapy center for abused, abandoned and traumatized children in Nepal. In addition, we donated a percentage of 2009 Wee Boo-tique sales to Nepal House, and recently got this exciting news from Ashwin Sharma, the organization’s Chairperson:

Dear Jill
What a wonderful surprise in our mail box today!… Read the rest

My first posting on Blue’s Blog

My first posting on Blue’s Blog ;o) — as promised, below is the link to yesterday morning’s playlist. I also wanted to recommend an amazing book, & Christie McNally. The authors creatively intertwine the yoga sutras (“threads” on yoga) within quite an amusing story, all done in layman’s terms. Happy reading!

Thanks for making the Blue community a special place to BE.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=352237936

Love,
Michele… Read the rest