Tag: health

What’s in a name? What to call yoga for bigger bodies

So, this is an update to the original post. After a lot of conversation and consideration I have changed the name of the class to Yoga 2eXceL. The name was becoming too distracting and I think we still get our point across that yoga isn’t about size or body image. It’s about exploring and expressing

Just B Yoga anniversary contest: Bring a friend to win

This month Just B Yoga is 2 years old! Thank YOU Lansing for helping us make this very special milestone. We know we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you. Each student who comes. Each student who likes us on Facebook. So all month we will have a special contest. Bring a friend to

Help Just B Yoga win a Yoga Alliance video contest

WE NEED YOUR HELP! LIKE THIS VIDEO ON  YOU TUBE AND SHARE IT. This is a video with several Just B Yoga participants sharing how yoga has transformed their lives. We are entering this video in a Yoga Alliance video contest with the theme: Transformation through Yoga. The more likes it has the better chances

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Kim Lewis: Emerging from a rough patch

Kim Lewis is a yoga instructor at Just B Yoga. She teaches 40+ Yoga and workshops on depression and yoga. I’m emerging from a rough patch. It’s been a few weeks since I dipped into depression, but I’m finding my way out now. And this experience has me questioning my yoga practice. After all, I

Emily White: When yoga finds you

I have been told that yoga finds you when the time is right. When my yoga finally found me, I felt a bit like Molly McGrue from “The Last Unicorn,” one of my all time favorite movies/books. “Where have you been?” Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but

Lansing youth yoga art project

Before I get into the amazing presentations of the Yoga Service Conference, I want to share a different kind of yoga service project. This is a project Reach Studio Art youths did in service of yoga and community through art at Just B Yoga. We are about building community and serving community. The art these

What is a yoga body?

Yoga is definitely good at bringing out body-image issues. There’s nothing like a magazine cover photo of someone with their body folded in half or twisted in an apparent knot to make us turn our gazes away from our own bodies. I can’t wear that. I can’t put my foot there. My belly will be

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Celebrate Michigan’s Hometown Health Heroes

Just B Yoga was awarded a Michigan Hometown Health Hero award this morning. It wasn’t about us though. Belinda, Monica Pino, Tara Scott, Kim Lewis, Emily White and Tiffany Lemieux McKissic got to spend the morning at the Capitol Rotunda with some amazing heroes of Michigan. These are people and organizations you might not have

Just B Yoga is a Hometown Health Hero?

What what? Look at what was in the Just B Yoga inbox today. Just B Yoga Award Letter pdf What an wonderful honor from the Michigan Department of Community Health (a REO Town neighbor) and the city of Lansing. I cannot say that two years ago when the idea of free yoga in Lansing came

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Saluting LoveLansing spirit

Thanks to Paul Schmidt at UnoDeuce Multimedia for helping make this video that I hope is a reflection of the Just B Yoga mission and its love of our community:  Lansing. Have a beautiful day. Just B Yoga salutes you, Lansing. Peace.

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Yoga is for every body

Kathie Dunbar, executive director of the South Lansing Community Development Association, wrote this article in her newsletter Tuesday, March 6. It is reprinted here with her permission. Many thanks to her for her lovely sentiment and sharing yoga with south Lansing. And if you don’t know who Kathie is, read this recent FEATURE article about

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Men, do you have the balls to try yoga?

My name is Jeremy. I am a 6-foot-tall black male. I could stand to lose some extra pounds to put it nicely. I like football and basketball. When I work out, it’s with weights or I force myself to run. Growing up I had no exposure to any yoga. Once, an actor from a soap

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