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40 Days – The End.

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So I’m cheating a little bit because the end of the 40 days program is technically tomorrow, but it’s Yoga Tuesday here on hnwcassandra, so deal. It’s been a long, crazy journey to get here. Immediate thoughts? I feel good, internet. Physically good. I crave my practice more then ever. I feel…(Read More)

Yogic Archery

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I got this beautiful quote from Peaceful Daily in my email this morning: “The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it; so you think it some more, which attracts to it; so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you’ve got a dominant thought going…(Read More)

I’m doing a fruit fast this week, internet, and as it stands right now, I would shank somebody for a slice of pizza.  I said it. Little Miss Yogi can’t do this anymore. I’m freaking out, man. I’M FREAKING OUT. How long have I been on this horrific fruit fast, you…(Read More)

40 Days- The Middle

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Ugh, internet. I had to drag myself to yoga last night. Mom kept coming into the office and pointedly asking me if I was going to get ready to go and Dad threw his yoga clothes on and I was just sitting there on my ass watching Doctor Who (classic, 5th Doctor Tom Baker, season…(Read More)

Let go.

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I was on Pinterest last night- I knowww, but it’s a guilty pleasure and I love it – and I found this really awesome quote that I wanted to share with y’all. Let go or you’ll be dragged. – Zen proverb This quote was accompanied with a goofy picture of a man hanging from…(Read More)

40 Days – The Beginning.

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If you’re a regular at Blackbird, you may have heard that we’re running a program called 40 Days. It’s based off of Baron Baptiste’s book, 40 Days to Personal Revolution, and it’s a program a lot of Baptiste inspired and affiliated studios run around this time of year. What it…(Read More)

I recently read an article on the blog The Not so quiet Feminist called New year, same body-shaming crap. It’s a bit late to bring it up since we typically reserve all the New Year’s resolution hoopla for the first week or so of January, but the author makes a few great…(Read More)

Demystifying yoga.

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I sometimes get the feeling that yoga is seen, by people who don’t do yoga, as some sort of weird hippy cult phenomenon.This is probably fair, because in a lot of ways, it is. When I was a rower in high school, a lot of my fellow crew members liked to say that…(Read More)

So I’ve been teaching yoga on and off now for about two and a half years, and I’ve recently come to several conclusions about teaching. The first and most important is that learning how to teach yoga is the best thing that I ever could have done for myself. Secondly, teaching yoga is…(Read More)

Dear Human

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I get it.  You feel old, tired and out of shape.  The thought of stepping into a place with what you have already decided will be full of athletic, vibrant bodies freaks you out.  So you sit and wait for tomorrow. GET OFF THE GOD DAMN COUCH.  Yes, I am yelling at you.  The time…(Read More)