Tula Customer Event Roundup!

Check out what some of our awesome United States customers have lined up for workshops and special events. If you're in one of these towns, mix up your practice and sign up for an event! 

Tula Yoga Chicago
Chicago, IL

The 6 Healing Sounds: Meridian Based Yoga/Meditation Series
Last Saturday, March 29, 2014 – Saturday, August 30, 2014 - 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm

 The 6 healing sounds are a Qi Gong exercise that combine vocalizations with a gestured movement, and a meditation centered around each major organ.  They are designed to replenish and strengthen the energies present in the body’s organs.  They are a fun way to engage in a different type of meditation practice, and have a powerful effect on the body.

Each class will have a brief lecture on the meridian(s) we are working with and the organ system as understood in the Chinese medical sense.  We will then do a restorative yoga practice that will stimulate specific meridian(s), followed by initiation into the healing sound for that organ and the corresponding meditation

For more info and to purchase, click here: http://tulayoga.net/special-events/2013/12/6/the-6-healing-sounds-meridian-based-yogameditation-series

Yoga in Yosemite! Retreat
Monday, May 12, 2014 – Saturday, May 17, 2014

Disconnect from all the gadgets and truly connect with the earth in one of the most spectacular places on earth - Yosemite National Forest. This is not your typical retreat, the star-filled sky will be our ceiling and the soft ground will be our beds. Join us for this 5.5 day stay in Yosemite’s backcountry and reconnect, rejuvenate and relax. 

There are only 4 spots remaining so sign up soon!

http://tulayoga.net/special-events/2014/5/12/yosemite-yogabackpacking-retreat

Jai Rhythm
Ventura, CA

Radiant Heart Fire with Rob Hess & Live Music
Saturday, March 29 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Liberate and ignite the fire of your heart with Live Music
As we feel the shift in the season and the flow of life it is good to hear the call of the heart, and answer it. This workshop will connect to the scared power that flows through us and unites us at the core and to the great prana shakti (the life force). Our bodies are sacred vessels and our energetic heart is the fire alter for our highest realization and the most practical guide for living yoga. Rob will take you on this journey through the Prana Flow sequences that will liberate and ignite the fire of ones heart, nourish the soul and give you practical tools to deepen your Flow yoga experience. A regular yoga practice is recommended but not required.

http://www.jairhythm.com/workshops/

Giggling Lotus
San Francisco, CA

Yoga Mala to Benefit Muttville
Sunday, April 27 - 2:00 pm

We will do 108 sun salutations to benefit and honor the senior dogs at Muttville and all of their helpful programs. Intention is what counts here…do as many as you can! All levels are welcome to join in for this important cause.

$35 suggested donation or whatever one can afford.

http://www.gigglinglotus.com/events.html

Indigo Yoga
Beavercreek, OH 

Vino and Vinyasa
Friday, March 28 - 5:30 pm

Happy Hour anyone? Join Amy for a wine tasting and an all levels yoga class with wine from our friends at Caesar Creek Vineyards in Xenia. From the ground to the glass, Caesar Creek Vineyards will provide the perfect beginning and perfect ending to this vinyasa flow class suitable for all. Nurture your mind, body, and spirit, just as the earth has nurtured the grapevines to bear fruit for this amazing wine. Awaken your senses, relax, stretch, laugh, and start your weekend with your community of friends.

http://indigoyogadayton.com/blog/vino-and-vinyasa-friday-march-28th-at-530-pm/  

Eastern Groove Yoga
Chicago, IL 

Accelerated ATS (American Tribal Style) with Grace of Eastern Fire
Sunday, April 13 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Do you dance Raqs Sharqi and would like to try something a little different? Are you a Tribal Fusion dancer looking to know more about the roots of tribal belly dance? Are you just ATS® curious; wondering what's this cueing, vocabulary thing all about? You can find out in just one afternoon that American Tribal Style isn't a strange cousin it's a style sister. Once you know the cues and a few basic moves, you will be able to connect with fellow dancers and dance, with little worry about what to do next. This workshop is for those with previous belly dance experience. It is designed to quickly familiarize you with this interesting style and to show ATS® in relation to Tribal Fusion and Raqs Sharqi. Come to learn and play!

http://www.easterngroove.com/workshops.html

Open Space Studios
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Beat Yoga
First & Last Friday of every month – 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

1 hour. 1 beat. 1 love.
Bounce, move and groove in this non-traditional yoga class where we turn up the music and flow to the beat. This class is all about the tunes as you are guided through an open level Vinyasa Flow class where you can feel free to put a little dancing in your poses. Smile, laugh and even sing if the feeling strikes you! Set the tone for your weekend in this fun, free spirited class. There will be a different "beat" each week.

http://www.openspacestudiosvi.com/beat-yoga.html 

Yoga East
Cape Girardeau, MO

Stress Less Massage Clinic
Saturday, April 4 - 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm

This is a community based Thai Yoga Massage Therapy Clinic. It serves our mission to help people in our community live more stress less and makes therapeutic massage affordable to all. Clients receive Thai Massage,or energy work, in a semi-private setting, fully clothed, with one of our licensed massage therapists.  You choose the sliding scale fee, you can afford to pay, cash only. We offer these community massage clinics several times a month. You may contact us to schedule a massage clinic appointment time in advance as the number of clients we are able to serve is limited. Walk -ins are always welcomed also. Bring a friend and come on in. You can start to live more stress less today!

 Sliding scale pay as you can rates: 25 minute sessions $15-$25

http://yogaeast.abmp.com/special-events-workshops 

Invisible Bee Yoga
Minneapolis, MN

Kiss My Asana Yogathon
April 1 – 30 

We've put together a team of teachers and students who are participating in Mind Body Solution's "Kiss My Asana Yogathon" during the month of April.

The Yogathon was created to raise funds to maintain the current Adaptive Yoga programs at Mind Body Solutions. MBS is also planning to build new programs for anyone who could use yoga to help experience the sense of wholeness they deserve.  

If you would like to join the Invisible Bee Yoga team please visit our special Yogathon page here, or you are welcome to join as an individual. Our studio goal is to raise $500.

We will be offering a number of special donation classes during April to help raise proceeds for the event. Everyone is welcome to attend these classes! 

http://www.invisiblebeeyoga.com/new-special-events

Mel O Yoga
Palm Bay, FL

SUP Paddleboard Yoga at Ballard Park
Saturday, April 12 – 10:00 am

Bring yourself, water and a towel to Ballard Park to learn all about SUP Yoga!

http://www.meloyoga.com/prices/

Yoga Sol
Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Yoga Sol Kids Series
Thursdays April 3 – June 12 – 6:15 pm

Boys Yoga (8-12yrs) 6:15pm – 7:15pm THURSDAYS Apr 3 – Jun 12 no class Apr 17 Many professional male athletes enthusiastically practice yoga. It helps get their game on while increasing strength, flexibility, focus, and agility. Classes are for boys only. 10 weeks/$180

Teen Yoga (13-17 yrs) 7:30pm – 8:45pm Yoga offers tools to guide students in self-exploration, provide ways to handle stress, anger, anxiety, depression and other challenges facing teens while developing a positive influence of teens and their bodies for the rest of their lives. 10 weeks/$180

http://myyogasol.com/yoga-sol-kids-classes/ 


Yoga Roundup XVIII: Feb. 23 – Mar. 1, 2014

The Week’s Top Yoga News, According to the People at Tula Software

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If Yoga, Paint by Numbers and Twister Had a Baby…

You would get Yoga by Numbers, a new yoga mat created by Elizabeth Morrow that helps take the “guesswork” out of where to put your hands and feet during a pose.

In 2012 after suffering from blood clots that caused a partial lung collapse, she was put on blood thinners, which limited her physical capabilities. So, she created the Yoga by Numbers mat with Jade Yoga and put out online tutorials that guide your poses by telling you what numbers to place your feet and hands on. The videos have found success with people who have disabilities, are far away from a yoga studio or just need very thorough direction. Morrow hopes to have a DVD out in the near future.

The Yogi is in
Thanks to countless studies (you may have seen them on this blog before) on the health benefits of yoga, courses on the practice and how to integrate them into patients’ health routines have become an approved way for doctors to gain needed credits to retain their licenses. NPR writes about Economist Rajan Narayanan one of the founders of the nonprofit Life in Yoga, which has helped train more than 145 doctors and nurses to learn yoga and pass its benefits on to their patients. 

Video: The Yogis of Wall Street
Bloomberg TV anchors and New York’s Ashtanga Yoga founder Eddie Stern discuss the “influence of yoga” on predominant businessmen, bankers and the like and how yoga helps bring out their best qualities and why such powerful figures are turning to the practice. They also discuss how to keep the practice a part of your daily life.  

‘A Model Guru’
Looking to improve your practice? (There’s only one answer here). Self interviewed Yogi and celebrity trainer Yogi Cameron this week to get answers on how to grow your practice and keep it strong. His advice is sound, and he wrote the magazine his answers on the morning of his wedding from a forest in India. Too legit to quit.

What’s in Your Yoga Mat?
After Subway’s fiasco a couple weeks back (see here) a lot of you are probably wondering what the heck your mat is made of. Website Now Toronto breaks down the most popular kinds of yoga mats and grades them. See how your mat chalks up. 

Yoga Roundup Take One

The Week’s Best Yoga News, according to the people at Tula Software.

Mental Health

In Mexico City’s prison system, yoga is being offered to young offenders to help them change their ways and cope with their current situation as well as what they will face when they leave.  In a country struggling with a seemingly never-ending drug war, yoga is one of the ways Prisoner Director Cynthia Rosas Rodriguez is hoping to put them on a better path.

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