Yoga for Shannon

Well, the blogger is finally able to post his own blog. The training is over. The week started with a difficult goodbye to the Steitz family. They were such a blessing to me over the last two months, and it was hard to leave, not knowing when I woul...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting these entries for him. This entry recounts week 8, ending Sunday, November 13. And so. Here it is. My final Sunday night in Los Angeles. I c...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting these entries for him. This entry recounts week 7, ending Sunday, November 6.Monday night was our long-awaited Halloween pizza party and and da...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting these entries for him. This entry recounts week 6, ending Sunday, October 30.The story continues morning by morning:  yoga, study, clinic or le...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting these entries for him. This entry recounts week 5, ending Sunday, October 23.When I was in elementary school, the kids who needed extra help wi...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog, therefore, a friend is posting the entries for him. This entry recounts week 4, ending Sunday, October 16.Well, another week has come and gone. 4 weeks down, 5 weeks to go. B...

Please note: While the blogger loves his iPad, it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting the entries for him, and there may be a slight delay between each writing and its appearance on the blog. This entry recounts weeks 2 & 3, ...

Please note: the blogger loves his iPad, but it will not update his blog. Therefore, a friend is posting the entries for him, and time delays should be expected. The following blog recounts the week ending Saturday, September 24. Well, it is finally...

We do several poses in class that require us to tuck the chin in to the chest.  It's a compression thing, cutting off blood supply for a time so that blood can flush through that area afterward...cleansing and healing. Almost every time the teachers...

In case you are wondering, or if anyone ever asks, I can inform you now, without doubt, that the longest day in human existence was June 27, 2011. This was the day I took my sister and nephew to the airport at daybreak to move back to North Carolina...

Ok, I have been on blog-break for a while, because I was waiting for a couple of important things to occur that would have an impact on my plans to go to Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in LA this fall. First, I am happy to say that my church/employer ...

I think I'm pretty easy going.  I get mad, sure, but I don't get into many arguments because it never really seems to be worth it. But I do get easily annoyed, and I have developed quite the competitive streak in recent years. I never played competi...

In Bikram yoga, we don't have assigned places in the room to practice, though it seems most people tend to gravitate toward certain areas.  The only real instruction given about where to stand happens on the first day, when the teacher asks you to st...

You knew it was bound to happen...I'd be talking about church too. Since I'm a minister, I spend the time time I'm not at home or in the yoga studio at church.  Or working on church stuff.  Or thinking aobut church. The title of this post really is ...

So, from time to time, I have asked others to join me for a class.  Sometimes it creates a new devotee, like my friend Katie. Katie and I are kind of Bikram nerds.  We discuss our practices, talk about our favorite poses, etc.  The day that Katie fi...

Yes, it is true.  I have started a blog.  How very 2001! Thing is, I have a great love in my life (aside from Streisand, Linda Eder, and Liza Minnelli).  It is--as you may have deduced from the name of this page, you smart reader--yoga. Specifically,...