Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ~Rumi Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ~Rumi There’s a complicated relationship between grief and gratitude. They can destroy each other. Gratitude can be just as much...

Dear Yoga District, My relationship to yoga is constantly evolving. It shifts and offers me different things in different times of my life, as I'm sure it does for all of you, too. Recently my practice has been deeply empowering and clarifying and strengthened some of...

By Bree Barton “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.” ~Khalil Gibran I recently traveled to Malaysia for a friend’s wedding where I spent four delicious days communing with wild monkeys and feasting...

"The men, I think, are missing out," explains Yoga District instructor Mike Graglia, on why there are relatively less men in yoga classes than women. In this Washington Post video, Henry Kerali wonders why so few men take to yoga. Well guys, Yoga District offers a...

Thanks, Yoga District, for inexpensive and "gentle" yoga in our neighborhood. I did it. After over a year, I returned to a yoga class. A "gentle" yoga class. Pregnant, I had tried following prenatal yoga DVDs, but I gave up after quickly feeling (even more) nauseous....

“Why a ladies-only yoga class?  Aren’t most yoga classes mostly women anyway?” It’s a question that I get often.  Accessibility, I usually reply.  It’s my attempt to make yoga accessible for women regardless of cultural or religious backgrounds, to accommodate a...