Yoga
Refining your Teaching: Themes and Cues – One-day Training as part of the Advanced Learning Labs for Teachers
Bend And Bloom YogaBend and Bloom Yoga has created a robust and potent series of Advanced Learning Labs for yoga teachers to tighten up teaching skills, learn new techniques and methods, and fulfill Continuing Education hours. As yoga teachers, speaking is our primary tool. We speak the practice on a daily basis and face an enormous amount of…
Teaching Advanced Asana: One-day training as part of the Advanced Learning Labs for Teachers
Bend And Bloom YogaBend and Bloom Yoga has created a robust and potent series of Advanced Learning Labs for yoga teachers to tighten up teaching skills, learn new techniques and methods, and fulfill Continuing Education hours. Teaching Advanced Asana is a great way to introduce experienced students to Level 2 and 3 physical poses through classes that are…
Demystifying Full Wheel: The fundamentals and nuance for an open + strong backbend
Bend And Bloom YogaThere's no other posture like Urdhva Dhanurasana, also called "full wheel", or simply the backbend. This one iconic pose is so thorough: it stretches the quads, hip flexors, abdominals, and shoulders while strengthening the entire back body. Often sequenced as an Apex pose, it represents the essence of the yoga practice; to live fearlessly, and…
Demystifying Asana: A weekend at Sama Yoga, Houston Texas
Sama Yoga 2015A West Gray, Houston, TX, United StatesJoin 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…
Practicing Joy: Embodying Lakshmi. Christmas Day at Bend and Bloom Yoga
Bend And Bloom YogaA 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…