In most yoga classes the only time students engage in finding their yoga voice is at the end of class with the traditional “OM.” In my years of practicing I’ve encountered Oms that range from lyrical, choir-like harmonics to guttural, off-key bellows, to barely audible whispers of sound from a room full of people. In
Ever thought about the children in Haiti and wish you could help? Now you can, by supporting FONCUS, through this year’s spring break Michigan State University-Wesley Student Mission Trip! WE NEED BACKPACKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES! Most of you know me, Kathy Martin, I have worked at the Just B Yoga desk and been in classes
Dear students, We are closing the studio today due the Winter Storm Linus. We want everyone to be safe and warm. Practice at home. Share quality time with your family. Go sledding, walk on a trail in the snow, cross-country ski or snow shoe. Maybe just enjoy a cup of cocoa with yourself or a
Do you love Lansing? Are you a yoga instructor with training in restorative and healing yoga styles and traditions? Are you a body worker or massage therapist, wanting to share your healing modalities? Just B Yoga wants to talk to you! We are Lansing’s only donation-based yoga studio, committed to providing healthy and healing practices
In December 2012, my mum was diagnosed with lymphoma. Within a year, she was gone. She went through six months of hellish treatments and brutal infections. Then, confined to bed for the last four months, her physical body faded away. I had the gift of being with her for those last few months. With the
Yesterday my brother Baratunde put out a call for ideas for next steps as a community in the wake of the deaths of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and Mike Brown. I felt I should have had an idea or two immediately but nothing came. Instead a feeling of futility with a big heavy blanket of
A sweet friend of mine passed away on Thanksgiving Day. Her name was Isabella Swanson. Everyone called her Bella. Bella was a curious and energetic 8-year-old. She loved cartoons, dolls, her best friend, Audrey, and poopy jokes. She loved to play imagination games and go to mystical and magical places in her mind.Because that’s where
This holiday season treat yourself or someone you love to a gift of feeling and being well. The Just B Yoga Well Being Gift Pack includes: * Red Cedar Birth and Botanicals artisan bath products: Brown sugar and vanilla body scrub, Sweet Spice Shampoo & body bar, Everything Nice body Butter * One month unlimited
Today is intended for gratitude. I don’t want to go into the actual origins of the holiday. The intention of it is what matters. Gratefulness. We usually say we are grateful for the bounty of the year. We acknowledge abundance and plenitude. But gratitude and happiness aren’t reserved for the big stuff only. As we
Just B Yoga is please to welcome our newest teacher, Eric Schaar and his new class, Slow Burn Yoga flow at 7 p.m. starting this Sunday (Oct. 19) Eric has been a friend and support of Just B Yoga and we’re honored to have his sweet spirit and lovely teaching style to our studio. Here
I’ll never forget the day he introduced himself. He knocked on the yoga studio door in a rather polite manner. “Hi, my name’s Gay. I’m not that way, it’s just my name. My name’s Gay. My twin brother’s name is Ray.” Meet Gay Powers, the 81-year-old gruff, abrasive and if anything colorful neighbor of Just
Our very own Emily Dryzga is a finalist in a local contest “The Face.” It’s a casting call for a lingerie photo shoot for Curvaceous Lingerie, a shop in Old Town for all body sizes. They were asked to share one piece of advice to women about learning to love themselves. All of their answers
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