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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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…)
Tags: breast cancer and yoga, breast cancer awareness, breast cancer education, cora wen, ergonomic yoga blocks, hand therapy, Iyengar yoga, Leslie Howard, Parkinson's Disease, shoulder therapy, Sterling Tainton, Thank Pink Three Minute Egg, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga bloom, yoga bloom thank pink eggs, yoga eggs, yoga props, yoga therapy
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
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.
Tags: Egg workshop, ergonomic yoga blocks, Jason Scholder, Switzerland, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props, Zurich
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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…)
Tags: Annie Carpenter, beginner yoga, ergonomic yoga blocks, in yoga center, signature eggs, three minute egg, workshop, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Yoga Bloom Pink Egg - Supporting the Search for the Cure to Breast Cancer
Three Minute Egg has partnered with Cora Wen to create the Yoga Bloom THANK PINK Egg. The Yoga Bloom Egg, now available in the Good Karma Eggs section of our Products page, is a Hot Pink Namastegg in honor of its devotion to breast cancer awareness. One side features the Three Minute Egg logo as found on all of our Eggs, and the other side is adorned with the Yoga Bloom logo, which is beautifully crafted. In accord with our commitment to Cora, 10% of the sales from these Eggs will be donated directly toward breast cancer awareness and education.
Many recent studies have pointed to yoga as a holistic supplement to breast cancer treatment, revealing many significant health benefits and an overall improved quality of life. Complications such as fatigue and pain have been showed to be significantly lowered as a result of certain types of gentle yoga, including restorative and therapeutic.
Breast cancer awareness is an issue that is close to Cora’s heart, as everyone in her maternal lineage has had a battle with it, thus making her a very high risk candidate. Having this in mind she embraces each day with full awareness of her body and active self-care. Her work with yoga and women living with or recovering from breast cancer is extensive, by aiming to transform into “a positive experience for ourselves to live life fully, and live every moment fully and completely.”
Read more about Cora’s relationship to breast cancer, (more…)
Tags: breast cancer and yoga, breast cancer awareness, cora wen, donation, ergonomic yoga blocks, restorative yoga, therapeutic yoga, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga bloom, yoga bloom thank pink eggs, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
There are really only two ways to travel in India: luxury class, or sense-of-adventure class.
*For the record, I actually prefer the latter as I enjoy seeing the people, being among the people, and talking to the people whose country I am visiting. So I want to preface the rest of this blog by noting that I am not complaining one bit about having taken the train and walked a half-marathon to get there. It was a really fun day.
Led by a budget-conscious Dutch yoga teacher (Pascal) who wanted us all to have a real Indian adventure, we set out today for a trip to the Karla Caves about 90 minutes outside Pune by train.
I was under the impression that we’d hired a car and this trip would be easy. I had forgotten something of critical importance: India, while wonderful, is seldom easy. We spent most of the day walking, waiting and/or negotiating with people from all walks of life.
TOP 6 EXCUSES A RICKSHAW DRIVER MIGHT GIVE FOR DENYING YOU A RIDE: (more…)
Tags: Ayurveda, Hindi, India, Indian food, Karla Caves, Kirtan, Marathi, Pune, Rickshaw, Sadhus, three minute egg, trains, travel, Vedanta Institute, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
I couldn’t believe it was already 9:22 when I woke up this morning, only minutes before my loyal Rickshaw driver, Nana, would arrive to fetch me and my suitcases in order to deliver me to my new apartment — just about 20 minutes walking from “The Institute” [i.e. the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, or RIMYI.] That doesn’t include crossing six lanes of the most terrifying traffic I’ve ever seen. There is only one way across. (Think Eddie Murphy’s special needs brother in the movie Bowfinger, trying to scurry across the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, to complete a scene.) The fact that I was able to find my way back tonight was nothing short of a miracle. It really could have gone either way.
But, more importantly, today was my first Indian Yoga class!!! Mr. Iyengar is under the weather, and even if he were well, I am not experienced enough to attend his classes. One must apply two years in advance and have at least 8 years of experience in Iyengar Yoga. I have one. However, I have a ten-year visa, so there’s hope! Mr. Iyengar will be 101 years old by then. If he’s still teaching, I am SO coming back!
I learned a lot in tonight’s class, but before I get into the yoga, here are the most important things I learned: (more…)
Tags: BKS Iyengar, Bowfinger, coconuts, ergonomic yoga blocks, India, Instant Karma, Iyengar yoga, Pune, RIMYI, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
In the Fall 2011/Winter 2012 blog for the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States (IYNAUS), one of America’s senior Iyengar Yoga teachers, Joan White, has written a wonderful review of the Three Minute Egg. Joan brings the conversation to the table by admitting that she “understand[s] the resistance to yoga props that are not yet being sold by the Institute in Pune,” however with careful and deliberate experimentation she has found a positive response amongst her introduction of the Eggs to students in her workshops around the world.
Joan writes that she has even given some Eggs to B.K.S. Iyengar for Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI), the heart and soul of Iyengar Yoga. RIMYI is located in Pune, Maharashtra, where Iyengar resides. Jason will be headed over to India on January 4th for a month-long hangout with the Iyengar (more…)
Tags: adho mukha svanasana, BKS Iyengar, ergonomic yoga blocks, forearm support, head support, IYNAUS, Joan White, product review, Pune, RIMYI, spinal alignment, spine stretch, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
December, 2011: the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has graciously named owner and inventor of the Three Minute Egg®, Jason Scholder, their Entrepreneur of the Month. The Asheville Chamber made the announcement in their December newsletter, detailing how they arrived at their decision with the following kind words:
The Chamber is pleased to recognize Jason Scholder, owner and inventor of the Three Minute Egg®, as Entrepreneur of the Month for December, 2011. Three Minute Egg® is an innovative yoga prop that encourages stability and enables users to safely maintain postures.
The Three Minute Egg® was born out of Jason’s personal experience with back pain and a desire for better and more comfortable ways to help stretch his back. Jason infused a creative approach into the concepts of traditional yoga props to design a new ergonomic yoga support with a curvature that fits the natural contours of the body.
“I have my work cut out for me in an environment where traditions date back for millennia, gurus have the last word and blocks have been status-quo for years,” Jason notes on his Web site. “The need for change isn’t always obvious. But when better options reveal themselves, shift happens.”
Armed with a crash course in entrepreneurship, Jason launched the Three Minute Egg® with personal capital, modest funding from friends and a small business loan from Advantage West. The concept has quickly been embraced by many health and fitness instructors.
“Thanks to the grassroots evangelism of numerous early-adapters, word of the Egg is spreading. Its acceptance in the global yoga community is increasing,” Jason said.
Prior to creating Three Minute Egg®, Jason was a cabinet and furniture maker and an artist. Jason is also the founder of Reel Change Films, Inc., a full-service video production company that he launched in 2007.
We are very grateful to the Chamber for honoring Jason and the Three Minute Egg® in this way, and moreover for their continued support for locally owned, independent and small businesses that help keep the Asheville economy sustainable and thriving!
Tags: Asheville, chamber of commerce, entrepreneur, Jason Scholder, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
As part of her year-long series, Annie Carpenter continues her column “Basics” in the December 2011 issue of Yoga Journal with Chair Pose (Utkatasana). While simple in appearance, Chair Pose is one that demands more than meets the eye: flexible shoulders, a stable core, and strong legs. We are reminded of the fundamentals of the pose in its root word, utkata, meaning “fierce” or “powerful,” although Annie tells us it is just as much to keep a cool mind. With deep breathing and a release of tension you will find a stronger sense of focus.
Focus is certainly central to the success of Chair Pose, as it requires quite a bit of it. All at once you must lift your chest, engage your core, lengthen your lower back, and keep weight in your heels. Annie gracefully reminds us with her patient perspective, that the point of Chair Pose is “[learning] to handle many actions all at the same time for what feels like way too long.”
With Annie’s helpful advice there are means of preparation before conquering the full pose. Before adding the arms you can first focus on mastering the right angle of your knees, channeling particular concentration toward shifting your weight onto your heels. Standing tall in Mountain Pose (Tadasana), which was the focus of Annie’s first blog of the “Basics” series, will keep your arms extended straight and your back from overarching. When you’re ready, Annie tells us to unite the whole of the pose by bringing awareness to the torso.
“The pose is teaching you,” Annie says, “its most important lesson and key concept in yoga: steady practice over time is better than occasional, intense spurts.” She includes three modifications by using the wall as a prop: powering up your lower body with squats, and aligning your upper body with chest and shoulder openers.
With a dedicated daily regimen, Annie reminds us of the deep satisfaction that results from perseverance and determination in this challenging pose. The Sanskrit word for dedicated practice, abhyasa, reminds us that focusing on the practice itself rather than achieving the goal results in effortlessness. ”Consistency in yoga yields deep, lasting results.”
Tags: Annie Carpenter, asana practice, Basics, chair pose, ergonomic yoga blocks, Mountain Pose, three minute egg, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga journal, yoga props
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
So you say you are having six Three Minute Eggs for Thanksgiving dinner?Well, whatever you have for this yearly feasting day, no doubt your belly will end up full. Sometimes when our bellies get very full, we suffer from indigestion, or worse even, heartburn. As one might expect, yoga offers relief.Most intermediate yogis will be able to perform full Supta Virasana (Reclined Hero’s Pose), the classic posture for moving food out of the belly. However, that pose is not accessible to many people due to the deep fold of the knee, combined with short quadracep muscles, which then often puts strain on a our lower back.Enter the Three Minute Egg®.
My very favorite yoga pose to aid in digestion and restoration, I call Suspended Supta Baddha Konasana. This pose uses all six of my Eggs and is so lovely that every joint, the diaphragm, and every major blood vessel are relaxed, open and flowing freely.
How to perform Suspended Supta Baddha Konasana:
1. Begin by placing two Eggs side by side under you mid-chest. Place another egg flat under your head. Check to be certain that (more…)
Tags: Asheville, digestion, ergonomic yoga blocks, Iyengar yoga, reclined hero's pose, supta baddha konasana, supta virasana, yoga blocks, yoga eggs, yoga props
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