Author: Belinda Y. Thurston

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Schedule changes at Just B Yoga

We are making some schedule changes effective Nov. 1.All morning classes on Tuesday and Thursday will be canceled (Tai Chi and Empower Yoga). Also, our community free yoga class on Sundays at 4:30 p.m. will be coming to an end. The last class will be this Sunday, Oct. 27 with our guest teacher, Lacey Ingrao.

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Baratunde Most Eligible Just Being

Baratunde Thurston made the list of New York’s 100 Most Eligible bachelors.   That’s great. He’s hot. And the photo in the slideshow is hot. But here’s how hot he is Just Being. 😉 Thanks Baratunde, for wearing the shirt! (He’s my brother by the way)

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Thank you to the Lansing police bike patrol in Moores Park

UPDATE, Thursday, 4:05 p.m. According to the neighborhood Facebook wall, two young men were just apprehended. One neighbor posted: “They were found with a backpack carrying about 6 or 7 guns and several knives…What the heck! Is going on ?” But he also added: “Seemed as if the cops on bikes were a big player…WE

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Ruth Fisk to teach Mother Sequence at Just B Yoga

I am immensely grateful and honored to announce that the matriarch of Lansing yoga, Ruth Fisk,  is joining Just B Yoga to teach an amazing yoga class series. Fisk is founder of Center for Yoga, Movement & Massage in East Lansing and owner of Yoga Sanctuary in Okemos, will teach the Mother Sequence over a

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Hometown yoga retreat because peace doesn’t have to cost a fortune

This Sunday we will be celebrating Just B Yoga’s third year in business, providing healing practices and sharing community with Lansing. We’re holding an anniversary event, called Refuge in the City, Celebrating Harvest and Community, this Sunday from noon until 6 p.m. at the Moores Park Pavilion. We live next to an amazing resource, Moores

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Yoga Photo Art from REO Town Art Attack

Nothing like doing yoga in the hood! Thanks to REO Town Art Attack for letting us have so much fun and share what we do with the community at the festival, Sept. 7. We love being a part of this up-and-coming neighborhood. There is tenacity, creativity and a freedom of spirit in our little “hood.”

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Just B Yoga to participate in fundraiser for sex trauma survivors

Just B Yoga is proud to participate with other Lansing-area yoga studios to raise money for the Firecracker Foundation, which provides therapy for sex trauma survivors. We will hold a donation class on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 4:30, with all the proceeds going to the Firecracker Foundation. Learn more about the foundation and the local

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Help a Just B Yoga friend fund a school yoga program in Texas

Three years ago I met Anika Fassia at the Shabazz Academy for the free weekly yoga class I taught there. It was the beginning of Just B Yoga and the dawning of practice for Anika. She went on to take yoga teacher training and even taught a kids yoga workshop with us. She moved to

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Donation-based yoga doesn’t mean cheap or discount

Caller: “Hi, how much are your classes?” Me: “We’re a donation-based studio. Our suggested donation is $8 per class. Some people give less, some more depending on their circumstance.” Caller: “Oh, so it’s free then?” Me: (Pause) Sigh. Three years ago, I had no idea what Just B Yoga would become. Call it an experiment,

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Tell us your Just B Yoga story

Meet, LJ.(Leslie Jo Shelton) She’s a member of my Peanut Gallery. She and some friends from the MSU HALE (Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education) Department started coming to my yoga classes when I was teaching in Old Town and then they followed me when I started Just B Yoga. They are fun, silly and super

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Yoga Dance workshop this weekend CANCELED

UPDATED AUG. 24 DUE TO A FAMILY EMERGENCY THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELED Yoga Dance will teach you how to set yourselves free in a new way. This workshop at Just B Yoga Aug. 25, will show you the movements and mindset needed to explore this modality. Sonja Mattson-Barnes of Sona Epona yoga studio in

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Jeremy Arndt shares journey of music at Just B Yoga

The sounds of Australia and Southeast Asia danced among the yoga mats as Jeremy Arndt performed at Just B Yoga recently. This  Michigan native musician honored us greatly with his talents and spirit with two performances. He played the Halo (handpan), didgeridoo, chimes and other instruments. His appearance was a last-minute arrangement while he was

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