Happy Birthday Tao Porchon-Lynch, a Beautiful Yogini!

​Happy 95th Birthday to ‪#‎Yoga‬ teacher, Tao Porchon-Lynch! Isn't she stunning and inspiring?  “Yoga is a dance within…and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that’s when you dance on the outside.” ~ Tao Porchon-Lynch   To read more about the wonder that is Tao, CLICK HERE.   How long do you hope to be practicing Yoga for?
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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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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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A Yogini is Born

Our Guest Planker Angela author of Cloud of Chaos ~ I was sitting at a bar with a friend of mine, Manhattan in hand, and I commented that I would really love to have a yoga body. Pause to sip Manhattan. Then I said, "I guess that means I need to start doing yoga." Many years ago I did yoga on a pretty regular basis. I had a mat at home, which I used to...
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She's the One.

Here's a bit about the creator and founder of Plank, Doreen Hing... you can also follow Doreen's passion, initiative, projects and audacious writing on her own blog, "The Well Heeled Guru" and on her Facebook and Twitter pages. An exerpt taken from Doreen's own blog..."The Well-Heeled Guru is seen as the go-to person for getting people into yoga, however, this is not how she prefers to acknowledged. The Well-Heeled Guru’s mission is for people to...
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