Holiday time gets such a bad rap for being stressful and intense – it’s almost a cliché now to expect newsletters, blogs, and yoga class themes to target holiday anxiety this time of year. And it’s understandable. Being around family…
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We gathered some of our favorite things, ready for the gifting! At Vesselify, we love products that are good for people and good for the planet. Enjoy our Gift Guide 2021 for some inspiration for those you gift for, or…
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Ahhhh, the holidays are here again. If you teach yoga, the pressure is on to help students ease their way through the ups and downs of the season with relevant class themes. For those of you newer to teaching, this…
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Ever since I started teaching, I’ve prioritized what I put into my body so I can best be of service during long hours of travel, preparing classes, and teaching. For this reason, I’ve been obsessed with superfoods for as long…
Continue Reading.Discomfort in your low back or hip? Learn how to practice the “yoga diaper” in this *very flattering* video…all you need is a yoga strap! This technique is a favorite in our yoga therapeutics modules and a great way to…
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There’s a lot going on in the world right now. Record-breaking temperature highs can be found across the globe. The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed. Deadly hurricanes are becoming more common and more intense. Our soil is becoming desecrated. Forest…
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For as long as I can remember, in countless yoga classes and workshops, I’ve needed to demonstrate chaturanga. Yoga teachers, do you relate? I would cringe seeing the rounded upper backs and strained shoulders repeated over and over with each…
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I recently went to a new chiropractor and learned that the path into his career was largely inspired by a yoga teacher. He casually mentioned how this yoga teacher saved his life by referring him to chiropractic care, and…
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Have you heard our big news? 90 Monkeys is now…Vesselify School of Yoga! You may have heard me mention the word “vesselify” in classes. It’s a word I created about 12 years ago to describe a flow state created by…
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I’m writing this on our 1-year quarantinaversary. March 2020. We were wrapping what would be our last in-person training in Boulder, Colorado before the United States shut down. The prior two days we’d spent every day scrambling to update our…
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Does this sound familiar? You’ve planned a thorough Zoom class the night before, but when your students start logging in you realize that most of them won’t make it through the sequence you planned! For example, you might have…
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I have recently gotten into studying yoga mythology and am having a wonderful time not only tying these myths to my asana practice but also to life off of the mat. Recently, I finished the Ramayana, an epic that I’ve…
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In 2019 I started my journey to reclaim my ethnic identity as an Asian woman and began the personal work of dismantling my own internalized racism and white supremacy. I decided to share my personal experience of discrimination in yoga…
Continue Reading.While I realize that statements and letters at this time might seem performative – it feels more important to acknowledge and speak to this moment we are in than to be quiet. So here goes… One of the three values…
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How many times have you had a friend exclaim: “Hey, no judgment!” …when you’ve just admitted to staying up past 3AM binge-watching Netflix. How many posts have you seen from parents with the hashtag “#judgmentfreezone” to fend off haters when…
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