It always surprises me how much a yoga teacher can do with props. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy going to yoga classes, it forces me to experience each pose in a different way. Plus it's always good to have someone else keeping an eye out for straight legs, aligned arms and level hips (hard to do when you are practicing alone).
Anyway today in class we used pretty much everything from blocks to wall to chairs, my favorite was supported shoulder stand. When the teacher came and adjusted my shoulders it felt sooo good!!
Tell me what has been the most creative way that you or a yoga teacher has used a prop in a class? By the way Yoga Sanga will give a Karma Yoga Recognition if you would like to nominate someone who really practices selflessness in Texas, send me a message and I will follow up.
Have a good night, though the storm was a little rough around here (electricity went off for couple of seconds), the rain felt like a blessing to the Earth.
Yoga Sanga invites you to share and submit articles, poems, cartoons or anything related to Yoga. Our team will review it and will post some of the submissions on the website. Keep on the lookout for our first Teacher's Bio! This is a magazine for the community and by the community!
That is what I heard yesterday when I dragged my reliable Mac into the store. An older couple even said to one another, "that is how the Mac used to look." I had to take a deep breath, swallow and move to the counter where a teenager laughed and said, uh...this is vintage, and I cannot even touch it because we don't make parts for it any more. Here is a list of places that might be able to help you and rescue your hard drive, good luck! Vintage??? How can it be, vintage? I bought it in 2004! What does that make me!! But hope is everlasting, every once in a while I push the power button hoping to have my old friend come back to life. It is not only the financial loss, but the four years of information that I have that makes this so painful.
I guess the yogic way is to let go, start some things from scratch and continue using my son's Dell that hasn't been bad after all. Thanks for your messages and interest, I have been sending the prices for those of the early subscribers (way to go!!).
Yoga Sanga will be up and running in couple of days (at least that is what the Programmer keeps telling me). Just like building a house, things take time and a lot of patience, but everything will come together at the end. Cheers!
It is exciting to finally get the ball rolling and introduced Yoga Sanga to teachers and business owners, this is something that I have been working on for quite some time and I am thrilled, hopeful and a little bit scared to begin a new project and be part in its development from an idea to reality. My dream is to bring the wonderful Yoga community together and share our paths, challenges and dreams as spiritual seekers for some and physical discipline for others.
I can't tell you how excited I am to have you join me in the biggest adventure of my life, besides being married for 21 years! To me yoga is more than practicing; it is a way of life. And let me tell you life always provides me with moments where I can practice the detachment and the centering that yoga offers. For example, just yesterday I came back from a trip to Merida, Yucatan in Mexico where my husband and I gave a talk about balancing work and life. I was working hard to finish the letters to the yoga teachers and studios and my husband accidentally spilled a full glass of water over the desk where my old iMac was!!! Four years of documents, pictures and songs where gone in a second. So far it hasn’t been able to turn on and tonight we will wait for the Mac geeks to give the final verdict. In moments like these, it's a challenge to remember to Breathe!
Anyway, just to let you know, we are working hard on the website and it will be up in couple of weeks. Enjoy the day! Rocio
Dear Yoga teacher and/or studio owner,
I am pleased to introduce Yoga Sanga: an online Yoga magazine for the Texas Community. Our purpose is to bring together information to prospective students about the community and share our dreams, experiences and views on Yoga’s many schools of practice and philosophies. Yoga Sanga will attract educated, affluent and open-minded buyers. Our online magazine stands out from the others by featuring inspiring and interesting articles and multimedia features such as videos, music, and a blog that will help users create an interactive atmosphere that appeals to people from a broad variety of lifestyles.
The magazine will feature articles written by Yoga teachers in the Community, special events and a state of the art directory where students will have an interactive map that will allow them to find either a teacher or a studio close to where they live. Be part of an exclusively web-based approach connecting Yoga practitioners, studios and teachers through an inviting and interactive environment. Don’t lose the opportunity to expose your classes or studio to more than 15,000 new customers!
ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES Premium Placement Yoga Sanga provides an uncluttered environment consisting of fewer advertising units to enhance visitors’ experience—and your marketing message in a rotation banner. Targeted Delivery Through a combination of company, day-part and geographic targeting, Yoga Sanga delivers to your core target audience.
ADVERTISING PRICES Call us if you are interested and check our affordable prices! Special offer: Sign in soon we are offering our lowest price to a limited number of teachers. And that is not all; Yoga Sanga will pay the tuition of one of those teachers to participate at the Yoga Texas retreat in November 6-8 (accommodations not included). Don’t miss out!!
PAYMENT METHODS
You choose the type of payment that is comfortable from a variety of options and you can either send a check or use Google checkout to apply payment to your credit card. If you need to cancel just send us an e-mail two weeks before expiration of term and we will take your logo down from our website.
REQUIRMENTS
To be part of Yoga Sanga all you need to do is send us your picture on a jpeg file on a 300 pix resolution or more, the link to your website, a brief bio, style of yoga, the name of the town where you teach and your phone number in an excel spreadsheet.
I will be pleased to discuss with you more about Yoga Sanga and the directory prices necessary to be part of it. Please contact me at the numbers shown above. My best regards,
Rocio Morales Director and Founder Yoga Sanga Magazine
PO Box 5717, Round Rock, TX 78683 Phone 1800-662-3901, Fax 1-888-612-0992 E-mail: yogasangatx@gmail.com Website: yogasanga.net
I can't believe it is finally happening, making Yoga Sanga into a reality has tested the limits of my patience and sanity, but it is here! I am happy to share with all of you Austin Texas premier resource for everything Yoga, from classes, teachers and studios.
My own discovery of Yoga was some years ago when my mother took me to one of her yoga classes, now growing up my family was loud, combative and insane, sound familiar? So you can imagine the bliss that I first encountered in that small yoga studio. I fell in love with the graceful yet strong movements and the peace of mind that could be harnessed from silent reflection.
Though it was much later, when I began my own path as a Yoga teacher I always remembered that moment when I saw the power of this beautiful practice.
