Tag: hatha yoga

The Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA featured Empowered Yoga Founder Johnny Gillespie and Tomorrow’s Nutrition for a new approach to alignment and hatha yoga principles. Here is a short video summary of the event.

Yesterday I lead a workshop at verge yoga in Wayne, pennsylvania. The founder is Cara Bradley who is a long time friend, fellow strength coach and yoga teacher. There was a point during the workshop where I looked around at the packed room of students and they were in perfect alignment in flat back positions. [...]

Until the onset of electricity 100 years ago, human beings went to bed after sun down and arose at sunrise. We slept 10-12 hours a day, ate foods from the earth, walked everywhere or rode a horse. There were no tv’s, ipods or emails. Life was more organic and slower, allowing us to spend more [...]

This is where the practice of yoga steps in. Yoga is the science and art of steadying the mind in this moment. We can do this on a yoga mat or in a seated mediation posture. I use both techniques yet find the seated meditation practice to be a more solid ground to understand and [...]

I spent this past weekend up in Boston teaching at Metrowest Yoga. Boston is a mature yoga community and they are pretty serious about their yoga. The weekend started with a three hour intensive with a discussion on what it meant to be empowered and concluded Sunday with a discussion on what it meant to [...]