Back-to-school time! Get schooled on practicing Extended Triangle Pose.

by Shellie Crow | Sep 4, 2019 | health, poses, studio, teacher training, Yoga

Utthita Trikonasana, or, Extended Triangle Pose, is one of the first asana many beginning yoga students learn. It is actually quite a complex and challenging pose! With regards to Extended Triangle Pose, good things come in three. There are three major things to...

Pranayama practice for the summer: stay cool with Sitali!

by Shellie Crow | Aug 28, 2019 | Ayurveda, health, teacher training, Yoga

Autumn may be upon us, but we still have some hot days left! This pranayama practice will help you stay cool -and calm!- no matter what the rest of your summer brings. Pitta: Summertime’s dosha of choice. In Ayurveda, summer is pitta season. Pitta is one of the three...

Yoga Sutras 101: What are they? Who wrote them? And where did they come from?

by Shellie Crow | Aug 14, 2019 | inspiration, studio, teacher training, Yoga

Before Wayne Dyer wrote Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life… Before Eckhart Tolle wrote The Power of Now… Heck, even before Louise Hay wrote You Can Heal Your Life there was (were?) … The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Believe it or not, our modern yoga practice is...

My interview with EHY’s 2019 teacher training grads!

by Shellie Crow | Jun 19, 2019 | inspiration, studio, teacher training, Yoga

“Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with an inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the...

Vijnanamaya kosha: Know thyself and thy Self.

by Shellie Crow | May 22, 2019 | inspiration, teacher training, Yoga

I love to read about yoga. It is a good thing, too, because it is kinda important considering I’m a yoga teacher! When I first began studying yoga, one of the things I noticed was that sometimes the word “yoga” was spelled with a lowercase “y” and sometimes it was...

Annamaya kosha: What Netflix didn’t show you in Russian Doll!

by Shellie Crow | Feb 27, 2019 | health, inspiration, teacher training, Yoga

We are all Russian dolls. I have recently started watching the new Netflix series Russian Doll. The show is centered around 36-year-old Nadia. Nadia has a big problem. She keeps living the same day -her 36th birthday- over and over again. At the end of each “birthday”...