Voices from the 889 Yoga Community
By Michelle Karkic, 889 Yoga Teacher Hello beautiful 889 Community! One of the things I love about 889 is that it is a place of embracing change and growth. There is a deep desire here to provide the best classes based both on feedback from the community and our network of skilled teachers. One of […]
{ 0 comments }
By: 889 Principal Yoga Teacher, Lisa Mitchell There is no getting around it. Stress is a part of life. Some stress is good, like getting a new job or the birth of a baby. As a yoga teacher, I see the impact of stress. Stress is not always a bad thing but when the body […]
{ 0 comments }
By Taryn Diamond, 889 Yoga Teacher Why is this so hard? I am to draft a blog about something that inspires me. This should be easy! However, the moment I consider where these words will be read and by whom… WHAM - writer’s block: the pen stops moving and my mind quiets. It’s early in […]
{ 0 comments }
By: Nora Benian, 889 Yoga Teacher + Thai Yoga Massage Therapist Yoga is many things to many people. A stress reliever, a treat, an exercise method, the thing to do right now and many other things too. The word yoga actually means “union, to yoke or bring together.” But what are we bringing together? Mind, body and […]
{ 1 comment }
By Bryonie Wise, 889 Yoga Teacher As I learn to keep the channels open, I welcome vulnerability into my life from the centre of my chest, in the thump-thump-thump I find there. I reach the edge and peek over; sweat breaks out along my brow and panic enters because maybe I can’t leap into what […]
{ 0 comments }
By Lisa Mitchell + Kim McBean, 889 Yoga Teachers The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Rumi Kim McBean and I (Lisa Mitchell) are offering an exciting NEW class, Therapeutic Yoga. What is this class? We will use yoga therapy as a way to better understand ourselves. This is the process of […]
{ 0 comments }
By Grace Dubery, 889 Yoga Teacher I am crammed into the last yoga class of 2014, stretching through my first downward dog, and I cannot help but revise the year behind me. On my way to this studio in lower Manhattan the city is dotted with smart quotes about year-end that trigger the reader into […]
{ 0 comments }
By: Nicky Poole, 889 Living Yoga School Faculty + Yoga Teacher I used to adhere to a very rigid personal practice of two or more hours a day, every morning before breakfast. As I’ve become older, (and smarter), I’ve learned to trust a more realistic and gentle schedule. I’m a firm believer that consistency trumps […]
{ 1 comment }
By Erin Wilbur, 889 Yoga Teacher It’s no secret that I love a good yoga playlist. If you’ve spent any time with me, you know that I’m constantly ‘shazam-ing’ tunes I hear out in public, or digging for creative acoustic covers of pop songs. I get lost in the rhythm of drums, letting them inspire […]
{ 0 comments }
How often do you say I don’t know? I can honestly share with you that I used to always say I don’t know. Even the simplest things such as, what do you want for dinner? I do not know. What do you want to do tonight? I do not know. One thing that has helped […]
{ 0 comments }
By: Marla Meenakshi Joy, 889 Yoga Teacher + Living Yoga School Faculty I came from a Theatre and Dance background, and in 1995, after being to India and learning meditation, sanskrit, chanting and yoga philosophy I stumbled into an Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga class for the first time. I had already been practicing Hatha Yoga, but a […]
{ 1 comment }
By Tiffany Merritt, 889 Yoga Teacher “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to […]
{ 2 comments }
