Until I started reading this book I didn’t realize how much my culture has influenced the way I think. I mean I knew it influenced me, but the book opened my eyes a little wider with regards to this. It isn’t just my culture that influences the way I...
By Dorothy Fizzell, SOYA, IYTA, ERYT500, mom and grandma. If you are a yoga teacher, and you have children, do you do yoga with them? Or is it something you do separate from raising your children? Or, are you a parent/grandparent of young children, who also...
Submitted by Mugs McConnell, E-RYT500, Co-owner of SOYA Bob and I have just returned from a 5 day yoga teacher’s training with Erich Schiffmann at Exhale Yoga in Venice Beach. I always look forward to continuing to learn and deepen my knowledge of yoga. Even though...
Submitted by Jeff Lutes, RYT500, E-RYT200 from Prince George, BC. There are profundities in many experiences in life. We have the opportunity to experience them every moment of every day in the interactions we have with people, our environment and with...
By Mugs McConnell, E-RYT500, Yoga Teacher Trainer for SOYA This July there will be a terrific series of mantra workshops in Red Deer and Calgary with Bill Barry from Shelburne, Massachusetts. Bill (Bharata) studied mantra for many years with Namadeva Acharya (Thomas...
How do I know when my Nadis are Purified? By Marion (Mugs) McConnell, ERYT500, SOYA, SYVCA, Canadian Representative for IYTA During the immersion portion of our Yoga Teacher Trainings, we engage in a steady practice of Nadi Sodhana for two weeks, morning and evening....
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