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Hydration for Hot Yoga & Pilates Lovers

If you love a good sweat session during heated yoga or Pilates, you know hydration is key to feeling your best and performing at your peak. These workouts push your limits, and staying hydrated helps you maintain energy, prevent cramps, and recover faster.  

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Releasing Emotional Burdens: Post-Workshop Reflection

As we practiced "wood chopping" and "removing the chest shackles," we explored how each technique can help address specific emotions. Grief, anger, anxiety, and regret can all create weight within us, yet through movement, we can lighten that load. Many of you remarked on the sense of release and renewal these practices brought, and I encourage you to continue them as part of your own healing routines…

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Ghosh Yoga

Why do we practice the way we do? Why do the postures follow a sequence and what is the purpose of doing so? How does history impact our present? Scott and Ida Jo have devoted their lives to answering these questions and more…

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Ashtanga Yoga

How close are your teachers to the source? When it comes to David and Shelley, about as close as a westerner can possibly be! Join them in exploring the in’s and out’s of one of the oldest and most revered yoga systems: Ashtanga Yoga.

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Yoga Anatomy

Curious about the man who quite literally “wrote the book” on Yoga anatomy? The man and the book studied by yoga teacher trainings and enthusiasts across the globe? Yup, Leslie is that guy!

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The Science of Self

How do you take the innate healing and self-realization of your Original Hot Yoga practice to the next level through meridian therapy and self-acupuncture? What do those practices entail and how can they lead to the ability to self-treat pain and stress?

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