If you’ve enjoyed taking Darren’s Premium YogaGlo Workshops or had the wonderful opportunity to practice with him in person, you know just how special it is to be able to practice with him. What if you could do that wherever you are, whenever you want? You’re in luck – Darren Rhodes is now a YogaGlo teacher!

We will be adding new classes of his each month so you can pick up right where you left off if you’ve been practicing with him for awhile or you can begin a practice with Darren and explore a new approach to yoga, a new approach to you on your mat.

Darren Rhodes has been the director of YogaOasis in Tucson, Arizona for 13 years. His new book Yoga Resource features photographs of 400 yoga poses to inform and inspire your practice. He was named one of Yoga Journal’s “21 Talented Young Teachers Shaping the Future of Yoga.” Darren is the co-founder of the School of Yoga and offers yoga intensives and teacher trainings. Darren is dedicated to authenticity and innovation in his teaching.

Darren’s first three classes are on the site so you can practice with him today:

• Calibrate to Your Center – Calibrate to your center in this full spectrum practice with a backbend focus. Giving all poses equal emphasis, this class includes kapotasana and eka pada galavasana.
• Fold Your Way to Clarity & Balance – Deep forward folds and twists. This class will promote clarity and balance as you turn your focus inward.
• Rise and Surya Shine – Rise and surya shine in this sun salutation practice. Great to help you feel energized and motivated in the morning. Goes well with a cup of kali coffee.

Enjoy the Darren Rhodes goodness!

Consider your January weekends pre-booked with goodness. Tara Judelle will be teaching a bunch of weekend Anusara classes at YogaGlo this month and they are all free. Free! Consider January your month-long residency with the deliciousness that is Tara and make your way to the studio as often as you can this month.

Here are Tara’s class dates:

Saturday, January 14th

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

Sunday, January 15th

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

Saturday, January 21st

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

Sunday, January 22nd

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

Saturday, January 28th

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

Sunday, January 29th

• 10 – 11:30am, Anusara Level 2
• 12 – 1:30pm, Anusara Level 2
• 2 – 2:30pm, Meditation

See you at the Glo!

As we announced a few short months ago, we’ve been filming Ashtanga classes with Jodi Blumstein at the YogaGlo studio for several weeks and the day that many of you have asked for is now here – Ashtanga classes are now online!

The first three classes of Jodi’s are:

• Intro to Ashtanga Yoga – In this 90- minute class, Jodi Blumstein will introduce the fundamental aspects of this ancient practice. Breath, Drishti, Bandhas and Vinyasa.
• Half Primary Series – This 90-minute class will lead you through what is commonly called half of the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga, although it is a bit more than half. This is considered a strong practice and a good place for new and enthusiastic students of this practice.
• Full Primary Series – The Full Primary Series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is also called Yoga Chikitsa, or yogic cleansing program. Utilizing Breath, Bandhas and Drishti, students are led through a continuous Vinyasa series that cleanses and detoxifies the body while creating strength and flexibility. This is a strong practice and is not recommended as a starting point.

New to Ashtanga but want to learn more? We’ve also launched an entire series of foundational classes in our Beginner Center for you to get acquainted with Ashtanga and begin working towards taking a full online class.

Jodi has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for 17 years. From 1999 to 2005 she was the director of Priya Yoga – the first Ashtanga/vinyasa yoga school in Chicago. Jodi sees the Ashtanga practice as a highly transformative experience; it is physical exercise to keep the body clean, it is mental exercise to keep the mind sharp, and it is a tool for waking up to who we truly are, beyond name and form. Jodi has the unique ability to work with students of all levels, ages, and physical ability and to guide them towards establishing a consistent, daily practice to improve health on all levels. She encourages students to explore the unknown both on and off the mat and not to take anything too seriously. She has helped thousands of students begin their journey in this practice, and she holds the space for many communities to build thriving Ashtanga yoga programs. Currently, Jodi is living in Los Angeles where she teaches the Mysore program for Yoga Works at the Center for Yoga near Hollywood.

Join us in exploring Ashtanga on the site – we’re thrilled to offer you all the classes you’ve asked for so you can practice Ashtanga wherever you are – in your home or on the go!

If you’ve attended the fabulous yin/yang classes of Felicia Tomasko and Dice lida-Klein in the past, you know how amazing the combo can be. If you haven’t, we hope you’ve had the chance to take their combo classes online.

If you Glo in LA, you won’t want to miss their next collaboration today at 4:30pm at the YogaGlo studio. What’s in store?

“This combination of long Yin-style holds to open the body with vigorous Yang-style vinasya flow and fun and exhilarating arm balances will uplift the spirit—and the body. The sequences that open up the body and release locked-up energy allow us to go where we’ve never gone before in other parts of our practice. Suppleness, stability, and strength are all cornerstones to a healthy Yoga practice and we address them all within the Yin-Yang format. This foray on the mat will feature side stretches that allow us to gain more mobility around the upper chest, mid-back, rib cage, and obliques which we’ll then twist and soar with a complementary Yang practice of arm balances that emphasize the side body. This practice is for all levels, so don’t be intimidated if you’ve never left the ground. Be prepared to laugh, sweat, stretch, and play with a great community of yogis.”

We can’t think of a better way to spend your Saturday afternoon/evening – so join us for this free combo class that will leave you sweaty, happy and feeling good.

We’ve just launched two new Specific Use categories on the YogaGlo site that we’re very excited to share with you:

• Continuous Flow – If you prefer your yoga in a non-stop workout format where you build heat, hold poses briefly and move to the next, this new category is for you. Every class listed on this page (and all new ones added) follow a continuous flow format to be sure that if you want a full-on yoga workout in 60 minutes, you’ll get it. We’ll be adding various levels and various teachers to this category over time, so get your yoga workout on and let us know what you think.
• Cross-Training – Are you a runner? Cyclist? Snowboarder? Surfer? A combination of all these and more? Yoga works brilliantly as pre-event stretching or post-event recovery and we’ve curated a great set of classes that are designed to help keep you in top form for your favorite sport and to help prevent injuries along the way. As you enjoy these classes, don’t be shy about letting us know what sport you love most so we be sure to add classes that are targeted at your needs.

Enjoy these two new yoga categories as you workout, run, spin and swim your way to feeling good!

Martin Kirk and Noah Mazé have teamed up for an unique YogaGlo weekend workshop that you won’t want to miss:

You can register for the entire weekend or you can register for individual sessions:

Join us at the YogaGlo studio for an awesome weekend.

You’ve asked for it, you’ve waited patiently for it and now your day has come – we are thrilled to announce that we will begin offering free weekly Ashtanga classes at the studio starting September 9th. We’re doubly thrilled that Jodi Blumstein will be teaching them.

Jodi has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for 17 years. From 1999 to 2005 she was the director of Priya Yoga – the first Ashtanga/vinyasa yoga school in Chicago. Jodi sees the Ashtanga practice as a highly transformative experience; it is physical exercise to keep the body clean, it is mental exercise to keep the mind sharp, and it is a tool for waking up to who we truly are, beyond name and form. Jodi has the unique ability to work with students of all levels, ages, and physical ability and to guide them towards establishing a consistent, daily practice to improve health on all levels. She encourages students to explore the unknown both on and off the mat and not to take anything too seriously. She has helped thousands of students begin their journey in this practice, and she holds the space for many communities to build thriving Ashtanga yoga programs. Currently, Jodi is living in Los Angeles where she teaches the Mysore program for Yoga Works at the Center for Yoga near Hollywood.

You can connect with Jodi at www.shantishala.net or you can come on down to the YogaGlo studio in September to take classes with her. And for YogaGlo-ers all over the world, you know the drill. After we have several in-studio classes ready to go, they’ll be added to the site so you can practice Ashtanga whenever, wherever.

Check the class schedule for dates. See you in Ashtanga class!

Remember when Prof. Bill Mahony and Scott Lewicki led a Yoga and the Way of Spiritual Love workshop? It’s now online in four separate parts as a premium workshop so that you can download away and dive deeper into heart-centered spiritual practices can open us to the experience of love for the world, for others, for ourselves, for life itself, for divinity.

Here’s the full workshop description: The complexities and possibilities of life’s journey give us an opportunity to strengthen, deepen and clarify this love. In this workshop we will focus on some of the characteristics and possibilities of a yogic life illumined by the light of spiritual love. To help us do this, Bill will lead us in reflecting on teachings from the Narada Bhakti Sutra 10th century text from India, that can inform us as we refine our understanding of the spiritual love that can stand at the heart of a deep yogic practice. This is a wonderful text consisting of short, aphoristic teachings that can give us guidance regarding ways to cultivate higher levels of spiritual love and to bring it forth more fully in our lives. The workshop will incorporate the yogic ideal that integrates philosophy with practice. Woven through the workshop will be asana sessions led by Scott Lewicki based on themes drawn from Bill’s talks. The workshop will also include periods of meditation led by Bill.

The full workshop is available for purchase as one complete set or you can purchase individual sessions:

• What Is a Heart Centered Yoga? - This session introduces our text, The Narada Bhakti Sutra, and introduces the way we will be approaching it as yogis and yoginis. We listen to and then reflect at depth on the meaning of a small selection of sutras, and do so through conversation with each other in the spirit of satsang. In this session we define bhakti in the context of a Heart-Centered Yoga and as the highest form of love (paramaprema). We identify several types of devotional love – such as the love of a mother for her child, the love of friends to each other, the mature love of those in a long-time relationship, and the love that builds in times of separation. We explore these types of love through examples in timeless stories and from our own experiences. The asana in this class reinforces these teachings in the body and mind by looking at our intentions in practicing yoga and how we can always come from a place of higher love. The practice includes jumping for joy in handstand, connecting to each other in standing poses, and opening the heart wide in backbends, illustrated by the types of Bhakti.
• What is the Nature of Spiritual Love? - Continuing our study of the Narada Bhakti Sutra through hearing them (the yogic process of shravana) and reflecting on them (manana),  in this session we deepen our definitions of Heart-Center Yoga and of spiritual love. We explore what the Narada Bhakti Sutra means when it says that higher love is of the essential nature of ambrosia. We also discuss a number of practices and modes of conduct – such as unwillingness to do harm, generous compassion, and others that can be can be nourished in our daily lives and express the deep, loving yearnings of our hearts. The asana in this class examines how we can use our yoga practice to help burn away any obstructions to a deeper connection to our hearts. In this practice we use visualizations to cast these obstructions into a ritual fire built from continuous sun salutations and deep hip openers. Includes an introductory heart-centered meditation, including basic sitting instructions.
• Inner Stances on the Path of Love - This session provides additional practices and ways of being in the context of bhakti as a yoga, emphasizing that modes of doing emerge from inner states of being. We discuss the importance and value of practicing illuminating discernment between what is loving and what is not loving in a yogic context and reflect together on methods of transforming and releasing inner states that deflect our love. The asana in this class again focuses on ways to burn away any obstructions, by offering them to the fire pit of the heart (tyaga) and to have emerge an experience of higher love. The practice includes freely flowing sun salutations, deeper back bends, and preparation for deep meditation. Includes a gentle meditation based on the experience of sound dissolving into clear awareness.
• Fruits of the Path of Love – In this session we reflect on the ways in which a life based in a yoga oriented toward higher levels of spiritual love informs and illumines all of the other goals of our lives (purusarthas). We experience love as not requiring an object, as independent, and as timeless. Our satsang discussion reinforces our understanding that our very embodiment as human beings in all our wondrous particularity is a graceful gift, and that our heartfelt response to this gift is one of gratitude. The asana in this class creates visualizations in each pose that enable us to see our practice on the mat as a practice of love in all parts of our lives (purusartha). The session includes students freely choosing the poses that they like practicing and then choosing the poses that they for any reason avoid practicing, and then finding a connection to higher love in all the easy and challenging situations in our lives.  Includes a heart-centered meditation oriented toward the awareness of inherent joy.

Enjoy!

You heard about her backbend workshop, you may have been lucky enough to take a few of her free classes when she was in Santa Monica recently, and many of you have asked: when, when, when will Tiffany’s classes be on the site? Today is that day!

We are so pleased to announce that not only have Tiffany’s first few classes been added to the site, but she is officially a YogaGlo teacher which means she will be visiting regularly (for those who Glo in LA) to film classes (for Glo-ers all over the world) to be added to the site on an ongoing basis.

For more than 15 years, Tiffany has taught yoga throughout North America, empowering her students to transform their lives through mindfulness and dedication. Her classes and workshops are full of humor, heart and hard work. In addition to teaching yoga classes, retreats and workshops internationally, Tiffany is the Acupuncturist and yoga teacher at the Nike World Headquarters in Portland, Oregon, runs 200hr and 500hr yoga teacher trainings and has been featured in various video and print ads for Nike and Lululemon.

Combining her education in Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Holistic Health, Sports Medicine, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine, Tiffany created the Optimal Health Program, a unique system of looking at a person’s whole body to help them achieve a personalized, vibrant state of health. Her book, Optimal Health for a Vibrant Life, was recently published as a 30 day detox for optimal health.

All of Tiffany’s experience means that YogaGlo members will have the opportunity to explore new tools for mindful living both on and off the mat, whether it is getting ready for a high performance sport or finding a way to live optimally in our day to day lives. We are thrilled to share this news with all of you – please join us in welcoming Tiffany to the YogaGlo team.

Want to get your Tiffany fix immediately? Her first three classes are online now:

• Body & Mind Overhaul
• Cross Training for Athletes
• Injury Prevention for Athletes

Kathryn Budig and Tiffany Cruikshank will be teaching a very special backbend workshop on Saturday, July 23rd from 10 am – 1pm that you won’t want to miss. They’ll teach you how to use your anatomy to your advantage to create an empowering and liberating backbending experience that will allow you to access your full potential.

Register today to take part in this fantastic workshop.

We look forward to seeing you at the studio as we Shoot for the Moon together!