Get Grounded Workshop coming to Yoga Joy!

Get Grounded Workshop coming to Yoga Joy!We are excited to announce the first of Plank's #GetGrounded: Deepen Your Yoga Foundations Workshops, which will be held at Yoga Joy Studio in Gloucester, MA on Thursday, January, 15th from 5-6pm.In this workshop, Doreen Hing, creator of Plank® Yoga Mats, will guide you to develop an investigative curiosity into the depth of grounding to enhance stability, lifts, power and more within your yoga practice.Let’s get more curious about...
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Yoga and Work. The Sanity Saver.

After an extended summer holiday weekend, most of us will be back at the grind, tackling what we didn’t complete earlier and stressing before lunch break just how to manage it all. In a recent Yoga Journal Magazine story, writer Nancy Wilson shares here insight on yoga in the workplace - downward dog at your desk may save you from burnout, and corporations are discovering adding yoga as a resource for employees to balance their...
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Yoga as Embodiment

Yoga has become a mainstream addiction in the North American culture. Many seek it out for its life enhancing, body image enhancing, or just plain feel good appeal. Some have the impression that yoga is easy, others experience it as hard, and others see it as an opportunity to challenge oneself mentally and physically. Even the billion dollar weight loss industry has become obsessed with the promise of Yoga to trim inches and tone, especially...
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The Once Reluctant Yogini

To look at me you would never suspect that I live with a spinal cord injury. I contracted paralytic polio when I was 5 years old in one of the last polio epidemics in the United States. Polio was  known as “the AIDS of its day”. I was shunned by classmates and grew to despise and disconnect from my body. Over four years ago now, at the age of 53,  I was diagnosed with post...
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