We have a saying in our teaching at Outlaw Yoga, “Dig Deep and Finish Strong.” It’s become a favorite refrain of our teachers, a hallmark of our style – productively pushing through fatigue and the voice in your head that says, ‘quit’. There will always be more reasons to quit than to continue regardless of
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I was teaching and practicing online the other night and a bit of wisdom seemed to slip out accidentally – bubbling out as a result of bending around, the way the best ideas seem to come…unbidden. That idea was this – We practice yoga on the mat, so that we can do it all day
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“What do you know about micro-dosing?” A friend recently asked me out of the blue… “Quite a bit, actually,” I responded cautiously. Anytime someone asks you about ‘drugs’ it is important to respond noncommittally, sort of like if they ask you if you can help them move this weekend. “Why? You tryin’ to get into
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I was talking with my brother the other day and we realized that it had been a while since I’d finished a painting…we actually had to consult my Instagram feed (follow @outlawyogi if you like) to find out that it had been since May. May!? I felt a mixture of emotions…shame, defeat, hopelessness…all mixing in
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I’ve been trying on a pretty radical practice lately…I’ve been drinking more water. Most days anyways – why is it so fucking hard to drink water? For whatever reason I don’t particularly like the stuff… Sure, if it’s super hot and I’ve been working hard and haven’t had anything to drink for a while, and
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What’s up, Outlaws! This month’s Outlaw Yoga Club pose of the month is Big Toe Pose. Not sure what it’s all about? Read on… A challenging balancing pose that requires equal parts flexibility and concentration, the steps into its full expression (and a bonus up-level) are laid out below. If the word flexibility can sometimes
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With the more ever present potential of shelter-in-place orders, civil unrest, and flat out disaster I found it apropos to share what I know about packing a “go-bag”… I’m not trying to paint myself as a survival expert here – too much responsibility – but, what’s a “survival expert” if not someone who has gone
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Alright, here we go – everywhere I go, people wanna know, “Will Justin be voting this year?” By far my most-commented-on social media post (which, admittedly, is not saying a lot for I do not get all that much engagement a function, my little brother claims, of just posting stuff that’s only funny to me…to
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After watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix and hearing the former President of Pinterest stone-faced predict that our country is heading towards civil war largely as a result of social media, I decided to really fucking carefully consider the role I’d like social media to have in my life… I’d tried a few practices around
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I was recently informed that October 12th is Indigenous People’s Day…so we got that going for us! Though when I looked at the calendar I was confused cause it said, ‘Columbus Day’. I thought, ‘Well, that would be a fucky thing to do – go ahead and give all Indigenous People’s one damn day and
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