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’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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If there can be said to be a ‘goal’ of the group yoga practice it might be the development of your own home practice… I know that sort of cuts the legs out of a lot of studios, but it’s true. Any real teacher has a single objective for you as a student – your
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I love being on camera – something in me turns on. Like Bob Ross before me, I treat the lens like the single person that will one day be behind it, trying to talk to them like they’re sitting right there with me instead of the camera that currently represents them. But it hasn’t always
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So you want to start to meditate? Great! It’s gonna suck to start – just thought I’d give you a heads up. Turns out there’s a lot of ‘stuff’ up there in your head – and by ‘stuff’ I mean shit. Memories. Experiences. Song lyrics. Sexual fantasies. Identities. Your grade-school best friend’s phone number…you name
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We get a couple of consistent pieces of feedback at Outlaw Yoga… “We hate it when you make us talk to a stranger!” I even know which of you students come in right at the start time to take class so that you can avoid this often uncomfortable experience. Hell, I’m really a bit of
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You fart, I fart, we all fart. And if you – like me – have made that fateful mistake of eating Chipotle before yoga class, then you know well the pain in the gut it is to hold that sh!t in yoga class… When you must – because sometimes you simply must – fart in
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In my career as a basketballer and time as a cage fighter I amassed around 40,000 hours of high-level, high-impact physicality…in that time I also suffered a number of injuries and underwent exactly five surgeries. If you had to live in my body…who-wee. My knees creek when I struggle out of bed to pee every
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As a yoga student I would prefer that we take hours to prepare to teach a yoga class—hell, a lifetime ideally. But, as a teacher, I acknowledge that some days life just won’t allow it. Dog pukes up a bird on the floor, car won’t start, traffic holds you up, your mom (or kid) calls with a fresh
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I woke up today worried in a big way. You see, several of my dear friends and colleagues have, as of late, been dangerously and deeply affected by a condition sweeping the nation—Yoga Greed Syndrome. As a community we are all in peril of this nascent outbreak becoming an entrenched epidemic. Not sure if your studio,
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