If you need some yoga bling, give Barefoot Yoga a try. They're a great Seattle local yoga shop with super friendly services, and you can pick up your items in Fremont for no shipping charges.

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Alright, it’s March! That means the First Nikki Challenge 28-Day Sit-off Meditation Competition is ovar! How’d it go for you? As you recall the rules were minimal. All I asked was for you to sit. That’s it! 60 seconds, 60 minutes, it didn’t matter. The goal was to create a habit, and as all of us [...]
This past weekend during my 500-hour teacher training, Denise Carrico came to talk to us about teaching yoga for people with cancer. Denise is a yoga teacher in the Integral tradition who has been teaching yoga for 20+ years and for people with cancer for 12 years at Seattle Cancer Lifeline in Phinney Ridge and [...]
Over the years, I’ve listened to and read a lot of books on meditation (because, um, you know, reading and thinking about something is almost like really doing it ).
These are my top three books/audiobooks for Meditation for Beginners (and I do think we’re beginners for a very long time).
The beginner’s guide to meditation [...]
Have you heard of the Meditation Competition? Are you doing the Sit-off? If so, let these awesome business know and enjoy the generous discounts they’ve offered. Do you know a business who would like to and should participate? Are you one yourself? Please let me know and join in!
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Last November, I announced a Meditation Competition–a Sit-off, if you will–as a response to the debate on Yoga Competition (or more accurately, Asana Competition).
It was a joke, that is, until now. I’m calling a Sit-off, and this time, it’s for real.
The competition is not who you think, though. We won’t have anyone judging your posture, [...]
One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote:
Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.
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To be here now; alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to [...]
I am often asked why I do yoga, and I often say, “so I can sit”, an answer that often elicits laughter, the kind that you would get when you give a smart-ass answer to a serious question.
Admittedly, it’s a bit of a smart-ass answer, and on the surface, it might look like one of [...]
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Muscles 'n Bones, Oh My! As you know I am big into learning Anatomy and everything that facilitates our movements. The books from Ray Long, an orthopedic surgeon and student of B.K.S. Iyengar, are beautiful to look at and can be a great tool in your exploration of hatha yoga.
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