Mia Park featured on the cover of the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of YogaChicago

As an avid athelete, dancer, actress, and community organizer, Mia Park has found that “yoga [has] provided both the physical well-being and inner peace that she needed to balance her busy lifestyle,” telling YogaChicago in their Jan/Feb 2012 article that features her as teacher of the month.  Her background in martial arts and gymnastics led her to yoga in 2002.  She has since taken her yoga practice and made it central to her life.  She turned to Moksha Yoga for classes, becoming certified as a ParaYoga® Level 1 teacher (the only one in Chicago) after completing a 200-hour teacher training with Rod Stryker.  Beyond just asanas, Mia employs chanting, pranayama (breathing), and kriya (energy techniques) favoring the Tantric principles of ParaYoga® to help quiet the mind.

Mia’s dynamic presence has led her down many different creative paths throughout her life, including her role as a co-host of a public access television cable show, Chic-A-Go-Go, for over 14 years.  Jake, a colleague on the show and also Jason Scholder’s cousin, introduced Mia to Jason and the (then) new egg-shaped block.  They were quickly acquainted, [...] more

Cora Wen will teach Crossing the Bridge and Rotator Relief, featured here with the Thank Pink Three Minute Egg

This weekend Cora Wen will join fellow experts Leslie Howard and Sterling Painton, in the body, yoga and respective areas of specialization for a Therapeutics Workshop series.  Offered for both teachers interested in learning to incorporate therapeutic yoga into their teaching, as well as students who wish to gain increased insight into their own body, the workshops are hosted by Yoga Bloom at the California Yoga Center with locations in Palo Alto and Mountain View. [...] more

After venturing to India following the new year, Jason Scholder brings his travels to a close with a pit-stop in Zurich, Switzerland, where he will be teaching a demonstrative 3ME workshop on January 28th, 10am -1 pm, sponsored by Yoga Artikel and Yoga Carmen.  The workshop will help yogis of all levels learn how to incorporate the Three Minute Egg® into their practice.  Offered for both yoga students and yoga practitioners, Jason’s approach will allow participants to gain “insight into the myriad ways this deceptvely simple and versatile yoga prop can expand your practice.”

Students and teachers who are local to the event and will be participating can purchase Eggs through our Swiss dealer, Yoga Artikel.  Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably and bring 2-6 Eggs.  For more information, contact info@yoga-carmen.ch.

Five-time amateur bodybuilder, Shannon Chisholm, is getting ready to take on her sixth event and her first as a paraplegic.

When biking home on Hendersonville Road last summer, Shannon was struck by a car and left paralyzed.  Also a mother of two, she came home from the hospital having been told she would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.  In a recent article Shannon told the Asheville Citizen-Times that she remembered little of the actual accident and mainly “[waking] up in the hospital two days later [and] I realized I couldn’t move my legs…I realized at that time what challenges I would face, not only physical, but emotional and psychological.”

Regardless, Shannon remains fearless in the face of challenge, with an attitude that continues only to look forward as she prepares to continue bodybuilding as a paraplegic.  This weekend alongside friends Shannon has organized the Chisholm Champion Challenge, a multi-day fitness event on January 27 and 28 at eight different fitness venues around Asheville.  “We decided to get the word out that no matter what challenges you face in life, that it’s important to live well and live a healthy life and take care of yourself and never give up,” Chisholm said.  The event aims to help Shannon with her high medical bills as a result of the accident, as well as to raise awareness about fitness and to help Asheville residents in their pursuit of health and wellness.

With the purchase of a $10 wristband adorned with the words “Never Give Up,” participants can partake in a variety of fitness events at well-known fitness venues [...] more

Following her participation in the 2012 Yoga Journal Conference: San Francisco, Egg Signateur Annie Carpenter continues her Winter Tour with a workshop at InYoga Center on Sunday, January 22, in Village Valley, CA.

The workshop, entited “Yoga for Beginners: (Re) Learning the Essentials,” is for those who are new to yoga as well as those who would like to review yoga’s [...] more