taking yoga to the streets

October 17th, 2008 by michael Posted in ascent, reflection, urban yogi/ni

ascent magazine sponsored Ottawa-based yoga teacher, Michael McCarthy, for a weekend Street Yoga teacher training course. Here, Michael writes about his learnings and insights from the weekend. Over the coming months, Michael will contribute to the ascent blog and share how he integrates the training into his teaching practice.

Mark Lilly, the founder of Street Yoga, has been teaching yoga to homeless youth in Portland, Oregon for the past 6 years. I traveled from Ottawa to Gananoque, Ontario for a weekend teacher training program and to experience his enthusiasm, wisdom and encouragement with 16 other yogis/yoginis. We discussed how to approach youth living with various circumstances, from homelessness to mental health issues. We shared different hatha poses we liked and why yoga was so important in our personal lives. Most importantly, we shared the importance of teaching from a grounded place and why yoga and selfless service go hand in hand. read more…

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the underbelly, wooof wooof

September 22nd, 2008 by gem Posted in community, reflection, urban yogi/ni

Now, I sit here trying to write about living in New York.

Hmm, tonight is kind of fitting to my stereotyped idea of this city before I came here - under my window is a large group of wannabe gangsters, pumping-up rap music from their sooped-up Honda’s, with steroid injected stereo systems. Boom Boom Bang Bang

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