2019 Teaching Schedule

MONDAYS
All-Levels Vinyasa
6:15-7:15AM
Vasu Tribe Studio
www.vasutribe.com
Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
$20 drop-in

Chair Yoga
9:30-10:30 AM
Bolton Senior Center
Notch Road, Bolton, CT
$5 drop-in for any senior (resident or non-resident)

Chair Yoga
1:00-2:00 PM
Vernon Senior Center
135 Bolton Road, Vernon, CT
Ongoing 10-week series, contact the Vernon Senior Center to register

TUESDAYS
Chair Yoga
10:45-11:45 AM
Bloomfield Senior Center
Park Ave, Bloomfield, CT
ongoing 6-week series, contact the Marilyn Michaelson Senior Center to register

All-Levels Yoga
6:45-7:45 PM
BreatheMoreYoga
www.breathemoreyoga.com
Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT
$20 drop-in

WEDNESDAYS
All-Levels Vinyasa
6:15-7:15 AM
Vasu Tribe Studio
www.vasutribe.com
Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
$20 drop-in

Chair Yoga
9:30-10:30 AM
Bolton Senior Center
Notch Road, Bolton, CT
$5 drop-in for any senior (resident or non-resident)

All-Levels Vinyasa
12:00-1:00 PM
Vasu Tribe Studio
www.vasutribe.com
Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
$20 drop-in

THURSDAYS
Chair Yoga
9:00-10:00 AM
Rose Commons
Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT
$5 drop-in for anyone (resident or non-resident, senior or non-senior)

All Levels Vinyasa
4:15-5:15 PM
BreatheMoreYoga
www.breathemoreyoga.com
Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT
$20 drop-in

Beginner Basics Yoga
5:30-6:30 PM
BreatheMoreYoga
www.breathemoreyoga.com
Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT
$20 drop-in

FRIDAYS
All-Levels Vinyasa
6:15-7:15 AM
Vasu Tribe Studio
www.vasutribe.com
Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
$18 drop-in

Chair Yoga
9:30-10:30 AM
Bolton Senior Center
Notch Road, Bolton, CT
$5 drop-in for any senior (resident or non-resident)

All-Levels Vinyasa
12:00-1:00 PM
Vasu Tribe Studio
www.vasutribe.com
Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
$20 drop-in

Teaching Updates!

Exciting news! Starting on May 3, our Wednesday night class at Tobyoga will move up a half hour to hopefully accommodate more yogis. Class will run from 5:30-6:30 PM and is still $10 everyday.

I’ve also begun teaching chair yoga to a tremendous group of senior yogis at the Bloomfield Senior Center. If you live in or around Bloomfield, check the class out! It runs Tuesday mornings from 10:45-11:45 AM.

I’ll see you on your mats and in your chairs!

Get Your Paws on Your Mat!

Join me on Wednesdays from 5-6 PM at Tobyoga for all-levels vinyasa (beginners always welcome)!

Classes are $10 (cash or check only).

Tobyoga is located at 352 Hartford Tpke. (route 30) in Vernon.

See you on your mat!

Shift

To say that 2016 was a year of change for me would be an incredible understatement. After ten years working in higher education, running professional art galleries, I decided to leave my job and find my bliss.

One morning, while I was still working my full-time job, I woke up after having a vivid dream that I had a business teaching paddleboard yoga.  I couldn’t shake the memory of the dream, and more I thought about it, the more it became an actual real-life goal.

Shoestring Blissful

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of designing the logo for Shoestring Blissful, my friend Leeland’s new business venture.  Through Shoestring Blissful, Leeland offers affordable, stylish wedding inspiration for New York weddings.

I love to spend smart, save always, and splurge when necessary. Shoestring Blissful is blog and website devoted to beautiful, budget-happy weddings in New York City.

-Leeland Allen, Shoestring Blissful

This lady knows what she’s talking about.  Her wedding a year ago was the best wedding I’ve ever been to (mine included).  I pitched in a bit with her programs and menus, and it was a gorgeous, casually elegant, thumping great time.  Listen to Leeland.  Even if you’re not getting married in NYC, she will inspire you to create a wedding that is absolutely Shoestring Blissful.

Visit the website: http://shoestringblissful.tumblr.com

Swoon over photos on Instagram. @shoestringblissful

Follow on Twitter. @shoestringbliss

Get inspired on Pinterest. @shoestringbliss

Confidence

I was listening to the lovely podcast She Does last week when it featured an interview with documentary filmmaker, Kalyanee Mam.  Near the end of the podcast, in a moment so brief you might have overlooked it, Mam said something so incredibly true and profound that I had to write it down.

When you really love what you’re doing—when you really care about what you’re doing—you don’t even have to exert confidence, it’s just who you are.  It’s just being. But when you’re not sure of who you are and where you belong and what your path is, sometimes you impose confidence on yourself which becomes very artificial and I see it in people and it’s not confidence, but arrogance.

I think when you’re really truly at ease with yourself, there’s a lot of comfort and humility and compassion for others who may not be as comfortable as you are.

Kalyanee Mam

This is so powerful and so, so good.  How many times have I imposed confidence on myself in times that I felt out of place?  MANY.  And how many times must have I looked like an arrogant ass?  I’d rather not think about that.

Blogging…Is This Still A Thing We Do?

I can easily pinpoint the end of my cookbook collecting days. It was the day I joined Pinterest. Actually, it was a few months after I joined Pinterest, once I figured out what I wanted to use it for and realized that it was the world’s most enormous, easily-accessible recipe collection.

The end of blogging, that’s a little harder to narrow down, but it surely started its downward slide when Google killed Google Reader and reading blogs became less convenient. Then Instagram blew up and—at least in my case—I began to fulfill my need to share information about my life with anonymous strangers and a handful of friends by Instagramming altogether too many photos of my dog with witty little captions.