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Another Reason to Meditate
Yoga District offers by-donation meditation classes weekly because meditation has so many benefits including improved concentration, emotional regulation, stress reduction… and now research indicates we can add youthfulness to the list. Nobel laureate and UCSF...
Green Studio Practices
For years, Yoga District has been keeping the studios eco-friendly out of concern for student and staff health as well as environmental love and respect. Check out some of the ways we’ve been keeping it green. Wind Power and Energy Conservation By partnering with...
Keeping the Yoga Community Healthy
Keeping the Yoga Community Healthy The yoga studios are a cozy refuge from this season’s the tornado warnings, rain and cold... but they are only a refuge from seasonal colds and the flu if we work together as a community to keep the spaces healthy. Yoga District...
First Impressions from a Yoga First-Timer
First Impressions from a Yoga First-Timer Brand new yoga students often feel anxiety about coming to a studio yoga class for the first time: being able to keep up, what to wear, whether they’ll be the only one who wobbles in balances. Read on to see how one student...
Breaking Down Yoga’s Transitional Poses: Plank, Chaturanga, Updog, Downdog
Breaking Down Yoga's Transitional Poses by Veronica Grant If you go to a flow yoga class, the sequence will almost certainly include the downward-facing dog, plank, chaturanga, upward-facing dog, then back to down dog transition. Referred to as a connecting vinyasa or...
Mindfulness in Children
Mindfulness in Children blurb by Danielle Bulgrien, article by Crystal Schelle photo credit: Ric Dugan We often hear about how mindfulness can help us manage the stress of our busy, over-scheduled lives. What we may not realize is how mindfulness can be as useful for...