Yesterday I taught my first yoga class for teen survivors of childhood sexual trauma through the Free Being Yoga Network. I had only recently become public about my own experience as a child, being molested and penetrated by my mother’s boyfriend. The class was powerful toward confronting fear and shame, for them and myself. We
Our nonprofit sister, Free Being Yoga Network, is beginning programming tomorrow with the Firecracker Foundation to teach yoga to teen survivors of sexual trauma. This will be a weekly class for survivors 13 and older. When I began Just B Yoga four years ago it was with the hope to explore the benefits yoga could
It’s no secret I love music. I played the piano and the oboe until college. I can remember my first set of JBL woofers for my car. I treasure my mother and grandmother’s vinyl collection of everything from big band music to early Motown. Music connects to spirit and energy in ways other arts can’t.
Tomorrow WKAR will hold a one-day fund drive. Just B Yoga wants you to support them and in turn support us! Your membership with WKAR will give you discounts to local businesses and services including Just B Yoga! Our monthly unlimited “Warrior” package is only $64, a 20% discount from our $80 rate. By supporting
This Saturday I will begin a new Doga (yoga with your dog) series at Annabelle’s Pet Station. I feel honored to work with Annabelle’s and to share this amazing practice with owners and their canine friends. So far we have all kinds of breeds and ages coming – German Shepherd, Dobermans, mini Pinscher (tripod dog!),
I am five foot tall and about 125 pounds and I teach yoga to heavy and round people. I see myself as a heavy and round person. I don’t know if I ever won’t. Positive body image and balance are a daily practice. When I step up to Warrrior 1 on my yoga mat, I
Who goes to Just B Yoga, Lansing’s donation-based yoga studio? The typical Just B Yoga student makes between $30,000 and $60,000, lives in Lansing, has at least a bachelors and if they’re a student now are likely working on a doctoral degree. They’re “queer, female-ish, transgendered and hetero.” They’re “mixed, biracial, white as shit, human.”
I’ve decided this Black History Month to explore and honor my personal black history, as an extension of my mindfulness practice. I want my commemoration this month to be more than documentaries about key figures and moments in history chronicling slavery and the struggle for human rights. I want to honor those in my family
I’m probably not going to be very popular here, but I really feel strongly about this and believe I have a different viewpoint to share. I created Just B Yoga as not only a donation-based yoga studio, but a space that was open and accessible to every body. That might be a lofty goal, but
Scrolling through our You Tube accounts I started looking up the videos with the greatest views. None of them are about how to do a yoga pose or how to sculpt your body. These videos spotlight community and transformation. Thank you to everyone who’s a part of the Just B Yoga journey. It’s our collective
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As I was posting on Facebook that the studio would be closed again today I was reflecting on patience and surrendering to what is. These past few weeks have pitted man versus nature. We know nature will always win, but man often refuses to tap out on the mat. As though that’s a sign of
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