Join Rebecca Benenati for a yoga and meditative weekend retreat. Rebecca Benenati is known for her ability to nurture her students and serve as a guide for practice and for life. She is a yoga teacher, mother, massage therapist, childbirth educator, doula, and former co-owner of City Yoga who now teaches at Rising Lotus, YogaWorks, [...]
Abby Wills shares her tips for choosing yoga books for kids. When the LA YOGA team started sorting through yoga books for kids, we asked mom, yogini, educator, and Shanti Generation Program Director Abby Wills for some advice on choosing media for kids. She said, “There are dozens of brilliant kids yoga books available. Start [...]
How any place can become a spiritual place and the power of one-on-one practices. If you have practiced any form of Ashtanga, Vinyasa, or Power Yoga, you have practiced the teachings of the late influential teacher Sri K Pattabhi Jois, who brought the Ashtanga Yoga tradition as we know it today to the West. As [...]
Dorian is a conscious neo soul artist. He rocks his live neo soul at Yoga Flows throughout LA. His CDS Everyday Warrior: Acoutic - Neo Soul for your Soul! and Turn it into Gold are available on iTunes and Amazon. IG/Twitter @DorianWarrior Long sleeve henley and sweatpants by 2xist.com Photo by David Young-Wolff: davidyoung-wolff.com
Rubi Rymenmy and Sam Tribbe in the Santa Monica Mountains. photographed by David Young-Wolff Rubi Rymenmy is the CEO and Founder of Art Flying Yoga and Art Flying Aerial and Sam Tribbe is a coach with StrengthProject.com.
Yoga is a method of healing. Beyond the postures, the breathing, meditation, visualization and manipulation of flows of energy through locks (bandha) help people transform their lives, heal injuries, and improve their relationships. The first ingredient necessary for healing is space. When you go to a chiropractor, he or she creates more space so the joints [...]
Supporting Community Through Movement and Play by Andrew Sealy Imagine a practice where students literally and figuratively elevate one another. A practice where creativity and self-expression are encouraged, and working together to shape effortless union is the goal. A practice that draws hundreds of yogis to a 40 x 40 foot square lawn, notably [...]
Rise Yoga finds a larger, more permanent home in Huntington Beach. After changing locations several times since its initial opening in 2012, Rise Yoga HB is happy to open its doors to yogis and spiritual seekers in a larger, more permanent space. When owner Christelle Reigner opened the original studio, she felt compelled to share [...]
Breathe with weights Photos by Jeff Skeirik “Is only yoga doing it for me?” After a decade of dedicated yoga practice, I asked myself that question. In early 2015, I hit some form of yoga burnout. Unexpectedly, I wondered, “Is yoga the whole enchilada when it comes to helping me optimize my health?” Honestly, the [...]
Big fish in a small pond? LA based Yoga teacher Matt Hodges would rather be a shark in the ocean. Matt Hodges says he want to be a shark in an ocean. It’s a desire that fits his driven nature and one he’s applied to in a variety of ways in his life [...]