What a difference it makes to do yoga daily. Wow! We’ve been holding daily yoga sessions here at YogaHub HQ for the entire team from Monday to Friday – and it’s been fantastic.

A few weeks back during Thanksgiving, we had a visitor from out of town who was practicing with us daily. She felt so sad when it was time for her to leave us that we started to stream our daily sessions live over the web for her directly through iChat. (more…)

I find it strange that, when I start telling people that we are now providing a daily yoga class to our team here at YH-HQ, most of their eyes light up because they are so envious that their employer or work place doesn’t offer something similar. Then they proceed to share with me about some other friend or colleague of theirs who also has a health benefit or corporate fitness program. (more…)

With the Holiday season in full swing, we’re starting to receive more out-of-town guests. Some stay for a day or two, others a week or more.

What I’ve found interesting about our last visitor is that she chose to integrate fully with our daily lifestyle and routines. Things that I do every day and sometimes take for granted, like a 30-minute morning walk, or a daily yoga session, and even just things like dancing salsa in the kitchen. (more…)

Stretch Your Body Not Your Budget
As previously mentioned, I’ve been doing a lot more yoga with my iPhone lately so I’ve decided to do a review of one of my favorite iPhone yoga apps.

“Yoga Trainer” by NexStudios has a great app that you can load onto your iPhone or iPod touch for only $0.99 – or you could try their ‘Lite’ version for free.

The only major difference between the two is that the Lite version has advertising. Aside from that, they both pack over 70+ poses and nine pre-defined yoga sequences, in addition to their quick introduction to yoga. (more…)

I attended a very exciting class this morning. Instead of immediately getting into the poses, our instructor had us take about 10 minutes to lie down in Shavasana and focus on our Ujjayi breathing, which is also known as “the ocean breath” or commonly referred to as “cobra breathing.”

The instructor was very descriptive in her explanations and had us breathing deeply in ‘sooooooooos’ and ‘haaaaaaaas.’ (more…)

When I first began my yoga journey nearly eight years ago, I was introduced to a form of hot yoga – a modified version of Bikram in a 100° room. At that time, I found that during most of my yoga classes I would become dizzy, occasionally to the point of having a near blackout.

I just assumed this was a normal part of yoga. Then, after stopping for a few years, I convinced myself that it was just “a hot yoga thing.” (more…)

A few days ago, I wrote about a new online music service called Last.fm. I’ve since created some great play lists and have over 500 tracks that I love to listen to.

By the way, I found out that if you want to pay an extra $3 a month (as opposed to having just the free option), you can actually choose to listen to your custom play lists.  (more…)

I often wonder how instructors and studios find all their yoga music. I haven’t set foot into a record/cd store in over seven years, so it’s not like I ever walk up to the “Eclectic Music” section, put on some headphones and start listening to some music samples. (more…)

I’ve been doing a lot more traveling in the past few months and find myself often out of my natural settings. At first, I told myself a variety of different excuses as to why it was inconvenient to keep up my regular yoga practice. Things like; “it’s too cold to go outside,” “I’m too busy to find a local studio,” “I don’t have my mat with me” and probably the most absurd “there’s not enough floor space in my present surroundings.” Come on, please! (more…)