October 2018
Macrame 101 Workshop with Shakti Weaver !
OCTOBER 20TH, 5:00 - 8:00pm at ABHAYA YOGA GOWANUS Want to learn to use your hands and make some art? Macrame has a long history dating back to the 13th century in Arab and Turkish arts and clothing. It made its way to our cultural awareness in the 1970's, with a recent revival as hip, bohemian influenced visual art and practical art. I started creating wall hangings and plant pods in 2017, fell in love with the texture, color, cotton,…
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Demystifying Asana: A weekend at Sama Yoga, Houston Texas
Join Julie for an invigorating, informative, and fun weekend of yoga at one of Houston's brightest spots for yoga! NOVEMBER 16 - 18th, at Sama Yoga - River Oaks, Houston, Texas. Asana can feel complicated sometimes, so for this series we'll examine a few commonly misunderstood poses and groups of poses to take some of the complexity and mystery out. Designed to review fundamentals, find the nuance, learn specific techniques that work for you, and strengthen your understanding of how…
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Practicing Joy: Embodying Lakshmi. Christmas Day at Bend and Bloom Yoga
A special class on Christmas Day with Julie to recognize the abundance of life for the year! Joy is a state sought by everyone, sometimes believed to occur when we have enough things, opportunities, "green lights", attention, and even love. So often, joy is sought in this way externally, rather than internally realized as already part of the landscape of your being and the home of your heart. The Goddess Lakshmi, a symbol of prosperity and good fortune, is also…
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Plant the Seeds: Sankalpa Practice for 2019
The yoga tradition offers a refreshing alternative to the New Year’s resolution: the practice of sankalpa, or resolve. Like a vow, a practice of sankalpa starts from a radically different premise: that you already are who you need to be to fulfill your life’s purpose, or dharma. Through practices of breathing, movement, meditation and chanting, a focus can be created to connect to your most heartfelt desires, and this is where sankalpa begins. To create a life we want and…
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What Are We Really Doing When We Say “Open the Hips”, And Is That What We Really Want?
“Hip Openers” has become a catch-phrase to describe yoga poses that increase range of motion in the hip joint, widely offered therapeutically for lower back issues. But do you really just need a more mobile hip joint? While it’s true for some that increased external rotation will relieve stiffness in the lumbar spine and aid in overall extension, it’s also true that over lengthened hamstrings, hip flexors, and external rotators can weaken stability. So what’s a practitioner to do? Since…
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