by Carmen Champion | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
The right combinations of words unlock awareness inside of ourselves. We find places we’ve never had access to or maybe learn something new we didn’t fully understand before. By using words and language we get to create all these new associations to better grow into...
by Carmen Champion | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why do we ask our yoga to be the same all the time? I am not the same every day. Some days I feel more strongly than others. Some days I need to take care of my emotions and be quiet or small. But the yoga isn’t asking you to be anything other that what you are. And...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
This article is Part 2 of last weeks letter. Why would I say something like that? Because we need to get ourselves out of the expectation that there is only one way to access our body and that everyone has to access it the same way. We need to redevelop a sensitivity...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
I begin each Yoga 101 session with everyone sitting in a circle. No mats yet, its too soon to roll out the mats. The mats set an expectation and I want to wait on that for a bit. Some of the people in the room have never taken a yoga class before, so rolling out the...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
I believe marketing for yoga is doing the industry a disservice. It isn’t serving me and it DEFINITELY isn’t serving you. Where did it begin? Was it when P90X made yoga an exercise? When marketing firms only use young, blonde, skinny women in campaigns? Or was it when...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
5 things Yoga taught me 1. Put the phone down Yoga has been a great avenue for me to disconnect over time, but as technology advances, it makes stepping into places without it even more important. Ancient practioners didn’t have the...
