Wherein my guest, a yoga instructor and writer, answers three questions and shares one (sometimes more than one) pose that yogis and writers will find informative, intriguing, and entertaining. Question 1 Which came first, your yoga or your writing? Writing came first. My neighbor and I decided that we were going to write a book…
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3 Questions & a Pose ~ Shawnee Randolph
Wherein my guest, a yoga instructor and writer, answers three questions and shares one (sometimes more than one) pose that yogis and writers will find informative, intriguing, and entertaining. Question 1 Which came first, your yoga or your writing? Writing. Without a doubt–writing. Of course, once I learned the mechanics of the ABCs and phonics-inspired spelling,…
3 Questions & a Pose ~ Shana Thornton
Wherein my guest, a yoga instructor and writer, answers three questions and shares one (sometimes more than one) pose that yogis and writers will find informative, intriguing, and entertaining. Question 1 Which came first, your yoga or your writing? Definitely, writing. I was storytelling from a young age, entertaining groups of friends at lunch or…
3 Questions & a Pose ~ Amy Weintraub
Wherein my guest, a yoga instructor and writer, answers three questions and shares one (sometimes more than one) pose that yogis and writers will find informative, intriguing, and entertaining. You’ve probably heard (or even said) “Yoga changed my life.” My guest today knows exactly what that means. While in her twenties, Amy Weintraub suffered from…
3 Questions & a Pose ~ Anna Adami
Wherein my guest, a yoga instructor and writer, answers three questions and shares one (sometimes more than one) pose that yogis and writers will find informative, intriguing, and entertaining. Question 1 Which came first, your yoga or your writing? My writing. Question 2 Are you primarily Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, or other? Primarily Hatha. I practice…
You ain’t woman enough to take my (yoga) mat
This originally appeared in 2017, and is reposted here by request Here’s a sentence I never imagined I’d see: There’s a yoga festival at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch! So how on earth did THAT come about? Well, it started several decades ago when Loretta Lynn, the coal miner’s daughter from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, bought a house…
Let it go : yogic wisdom to improve your writing
While teaching a writing workshop recently, I realized that many of the participants were struggling with the same problem I see in my yoga students. It’s the same problem I struggle with myself, more often than not—grabbiness. Yes, I did just make up that word, but it wanted to exist within the context of this…
Follow me to Paradise….
Yoga in India a thousand—or even fifty!—years ago looked nothing like the commercial venture that is now an integral part of mainstream America. When I first heard the term ‘yoga’ it was reported as another one of those wacky activities the Beatles enjoyed. Classes were rare outside of L.A. and New England, and the women…