You see them everywhere; at work, in church, at home, in the grocery store, on the playground, in school, and yes in yoga. They are addicts, addicts of drugs (legal and illegal), alcohol, sex, food, porn, social media, gambling, and love. They are people in pain, barely hanging on or functioning, but in pain. They […]
Month: March 2017
CLASS SPOTLIGHT-ADRIANA CORSO
She’s an attorney who does death penalty appeals and the co-founder/co-director of TeachPeace Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to broadening access to yoga to individuals with limited finances or other restrictive circumstances. I’m going to go out on a limb here in saying she’s intense. Yet I could literally hear this girl smiling while she’s […]
LET’S GET HIGH
With the wave of reality tv 10 plus years ago, there seems to be more of a fascination and desire to “be famous” than ever before. Yet, the avenue of which to get to the destination isn’t always well thought out or filled with a plethora of legitimate reasons. Even if you don’t watch reality […]
Man on the Mat Spotlight: Roman Plaks
At the age of 53, Roman Plaks, has been doing yoga for more than 10 years. He makes it to his mat to practice, on average, five times a week. As a self-employed man, he continues to carve out the time for his practice because he continues to see the benefits of his practice […]
CHOICES: SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP
There are so many things we can be and do in this life. The choices can be exhilarating, frustrating, intoxicating, regretful, and freeing. We live in South Tampa, Florida in the United States of America, the land of the free. Do we have too much freedom? If we have choices, who can we blame other than […]
Man on the Mat Spotlight: Roman Gressel
Roman Gressel, has been practicing yoga for the past 4 years. At 33 and as a physical therapist he knows that, as far as our bodies go, it’s a move it or lose it proposition. And so, he walks his talk and moves his body regularly in a variety of ways. Roman finds that […]
NEW ARTIST ALERT-EMMA BENITEZ
Emma Benitez is a mixed media painter with a BFA from the University of Tampa. Her work is deeply influenced by science, spirituality and the ancient wisdom of sacred geometry. Approached with instinct and spontaneity, her work is a meditative process; the process being equally important as the finished work. She explores the concept […]
Man on the Mat Spotlight: Travis Veitch
Travis R. Veitch’s yoga journey actually began long before he even took his first formal yoga class. In 2012 Travis realized that his life and his health weren’t headed in the direction of vitality, peace and steadiness – and after seeing himself in the picture below, he decided that he needed to course correct and […]
NEW ARTIST ALERT-JAMIE GOLDENBERG
As a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida, Jamie researches big existential questions, and in particular she explores ambivalence that surrounds the human body. These same themes are the focus of Jamie’s artwork. Women’s bodies, especially, are the subject of many of Jamie’s paintings. With her painting, as with her research, […]
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY: TOGETHER WE STAND
It’s no secret that anytime you enter a yoga studio the majority, typically 75%, of yogis are women. Yoga is seen as a soft movement or exercise to the outside world. You obviously haven’t taken Mallory Italiano-Dillions class if you still think that’s true! Yes yoga is predominantly white, middle/upper-class, and female . . . […]
