Today, Just B Yoga will be participating in the first-ever #MeToo Teen Summit, with Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement. The summit is being sponsored by the Firecracker Foundation and is inviting teen survivors of sexual assault and supporters of those survivors. According to Tashmica Torok, director of […]
Just B Yoga founder, Belinda Thurston, to speak at social justice summit
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Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy Candea, director of Yoga Impact and the International Yoga Therapy Institute. She had heard of the work Just B Yoga does with accessibility and inclusion and wanted me to share the concept with her teacher trainees in New Jersey via web […]
Just B Yoga helps make social justice workshops trauma-informed
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Just B Yoga founder, Belinda Thurston, has been contracted to work with the Ingham County Health Department to revise its Health Equity and Social Justice Workshop. The workshop has been doing groundbreaking work for nearly a decade, training employees and the public about how privilege and oppression affect access to […]
Twice the fun! Two Curvy classes on schedule now
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You asked for it. Just B Yoga now offers Yoga 2eXceL twice a week. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. SIGN UP FOR CLASS HERE I thank you all for your support of this class. We are the only Curvy Friendly yoga studio in the Lansing area. Belinda got her […]
Step by step: Revelations in a walking meditation
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I led a group of about 7 people on a walking meditation recently. It was one of my workplace clients and our room had been changed to a conference room. I removed as many distractions from the room as I could. We cleared the white board of the project work […]
We want to add another Plus-sized yoga class; vote here
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Yoga 2eXceL, our plus-sized yoga class, has become so popular we’d like to offer it twice a week. The current class is Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and we will keep that one. But we’d like you to tell us when you’d like us to add the second class. Vote and […]
Yoga on the Ball series, March 22-April 26
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Looking to increase your core stability and balance? Want to try an invigorating class that blends yoga postures with a high intensity workout? Yoga on the Ball could be for you. The next six-week series starts March 22 and goes through April 26. $72 for the series; $15 drop-in. […]
The benefits of meditation at work
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We started a new contract offering midday meditation twice a week for employees at the Board of Water & Light this year. The first session, at the old depot station, started with just a handful of people, seated on the floor with essential oils diffusing. But a steady stream of […]
Yoga 1.0 series starts Jan. 7
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What is yoga? Is it a religion? What’s the OM? I’m not flexible. I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m not advanced enough. Yoga. So ancient and yet so foreign to many of us. We are bombarded with images online or in magazines of perfectly sculpted bodies in seemingly […]
Christmas schedule at Just B Yoga
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Just B Yoga is offering its regular classes on Dec. 24 and Dec. 25. Continue your practice and feel free to bring your family with you! Meditation and Chakra Flow on Sunday, Dec. 24. 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. respectively. Yin Yoga on Monday, Dec. 25 at 7 p.m. Find […]