At the end of 2021, the only direct advice my grandfather has ever given led me to the Kofa Wildlife Reserve in Southern Arizona… from there, I made my way accidentally, on purpose to the base of a place called ‘Signal Mountain’… I set up shop at the bottom, ate a bunch of acid, and
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This just in your yoga postures aren’t ancient… Just kidding… Not about them not being ancient…about it being breaking news – it’s actually a pretty well known, and documented historical fact about the practice…so why are we still talking about it? The other day I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Christopher Ryan –
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Interesting times necessitate creative solutions…COVID-19 shut down our Outlaw Yoga Littleton studio, and thousands of other studios and gyms big and small. I even lost my three closest 24 Hour Fitness gyms to the pandemic. When the studio closed, I distributed our hand-weights to teachers and students who asked, and took home two pairs of
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You’ve been in class before… …someone telling you to lunge deep into the forward knee, and to extend your arms in equal opposition… …you feel the sweet dripping down your face, accumulating in your armpits and ass-crack… …you’re desperately holding in a fart that’s trying to burst forth… …then the teacher tells you to lunge
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Once in a while I’m asked by a yogi about weight lifting… it blasts me back to my past in professional athletics, and reminds me of the 20,000 or so hours that I’ve spent in the weight room training myself and others. Here’s what I tell them – if you’re going to resistance train just
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All last month I meant to sit down and write a blog about not letting the month slip away… then the month went and slipped away from me… During that time I’ve cranked on the van and sweated away on Granny’s land. I’ve also put up (and taken down) a few different canvases on my
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Kind of a tame topic for me, but lots of people ask so I thought I’d chime in on some of the various styles and brands of yoga mats I’ve practiced on over the years. I’ve broken them down into two categories – at home and on the road. At home – My favorite, by
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In between listening to Terrance McKenna and watching The Creepy Line this fourth of July, I took some time to reflect on just what it means to be independent… Wondered what it even means in the face of such powerful and sweeping tools seemingly bent on our enslavement, and our willing and widespread capitulation to
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I approached my birthday this year from a few thousand miles removed – taking some time off from a van-building project with my Granny in Michigan. Dear friends and record breaking temperatures have kept me company along the #outlawyogatour in some familiar haunts like Cedar Rapids and Kansas City; and some cool, new stops like
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Last weekend I had the absolute pleasure to teach in the studio for the first time in over a year – as many of you know our Outlaw Yoga Littleton studio was a casualty of COVID. Though I’d taught plenty of yoga classes online, many of them filmed in recording studios, being back in a
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