Memorial Day is coming, and we will have an abbreviated schedule the weekend before.
Please note the following changes to the regular SHY Mobile class schedule:
Friday, May 22
Normal Schedule
Saturday, May 23
9:30am Class ONLY
Sunday, May 24
8:15am and
9:30 am Classes ONLY
Monday, May 25
5:15 pm and
6:15 pm classes ONLY
Enjoy your holiday and stay safe!
The Sterling Hot Yoga Summer Teacher Training begins on June 21 in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, just outside of Cancun.
This session, we have three fascinating and wonderful people from Mobile joining us: Michelle Ryan, Sprite McDonald and Scott Singleterry. In addition, Sara Dumas will be joining us in the Fall training!
All four of our trainees are already working to prepare for their training—they are watching anatomy videos, completing their CPR and first aid certifications, studying their verbal cues and more!
We are also using the Sunday 4:30 pm class as a workshop of sorts—the trainees are standing on the podium to get used to the view; they will be teaching a posture or two; and depending on the people in class, they may lead a silent class!
Also during class, I will be providing them with insight on bodies and proportions, what to be looking for, how to keep people safe and more. If you are interested in learning some teaching “secrets,” come to class on Sunday afternoon! It’s fun!
Sterling Hot Yoga Mobile will have a very special and very popular visiting teacher returning soon! Rachhpal Gill, a.k.a. “the breathing yogi,” will be on the podium May 16, 17 and 18.
During his classes, Rachhpal provides so much helpful instruction on how to breathe in and out of the hot room.
Make sure you check out the SHY Mobile teaching schedule so you won’t miss the opportunity to learn from the breathing yogi. You will love it!
To learn more about Rachhpal’s approach to the breath in yoga and his background, read this post on the Casa Om blog.
Are you yearning for a relaxing vacation on the beach with excellent food, awesome adventures and great yoga?
Join us for a few days or a week at Sterling Hot Yoga Teacher Training in lovely Puerto Morelos, 20 minutes south of the Cancun airport. It’s a lovely and safe village right on the beach!
You’ll stay at the penthouse suites at Las Casitas, overlooking the Caribbean ocean! A few minutes walk to the north will have you at Casa Om, where the training is being held; a few minutes walk to the south is the lovely town of Puerto Morelos with events, shops and restaurants.
Best of all, a few steps from your home will have your toes in amazing turquoise Caribbean water. Just beyond the shore is the world’s second largest barrier reef, where you can snorkel and see extraordinary sea life!
At Casa Om, you can participate in as much of the training as you like; you can practice yoga twice a day, and sit in on lectures that include anatomy, history of yoga, customer service, communication, conflict resolution and more!
During the week, you will join us for amazing vegetarian meals twice a day, and on weekends, you will eat at Casa Om on Saturday morning and then enjoy the town’s restaurants on Saturday night and Sunday!
Excursions include swimming with whale sharks (they don’t bite!), the largest fish (they are not whales or sharks) in the ocean. Or how about swimming in a cenote? These are the freshwater caves and pools across the Yucatán Peninsula and the waters are said to be quite healing! (I can tell you that jumping in can be quite invigorating!) Or just relax on the beach and swim with turtles.
The Sterling Retreat includes:
– Pick up and drop off at Cancun Airport
– Penthouse accommodations at Las Casitas on the beach
– Gourmet vegetarian meals at Casa Om
– Mats and towels for yoga
– Laundry of all yoga clothing
– Two hot yoga classes each weekday; optional class on Saturday
– Participation in all lectures/training at Sterling Teacher Training (check dates for specific lectures) at Casa Om
– Bicycles and snorkel gear
Additional costs for:
– Snorkeling at reef
– Dinner on Saturday and all meals on Sunday
– Mexican cooking school
– Massage/spa treatments
– Raw chocolate class
– Shopping
– Your flight to Cancun
Costs are:
– $205 per person, per day, single occupancy
– $162.50 per person, per day, double occupancy
Start looking for flights now and let us know when you want to arrive and how long you want to stay! You are guaranteed to love it!
This challenge will be different than any other we’ve done before and you are going to love it!
Here are the steps:
STEP 1: Choose the number of classes you will complete in the 30 day period: 15, 20 or 30.
STEP 2: Choose your mix of class types — your challenge must include the Gold 90, Sterling 60 and Iron Hour. You get to pick how many of each class you will take.
STEP 3: Choose a personal affirmation that you will commit to saying at least once during every class. Your challenge card will give you options — they include affirmations such as:
STEP 4: You will be assigned a team. Work with your team members to encourage them to keep coming, to get encouragement, to work together, to make friends and to ensure success for all!
WHAT DO YOU WIN?
1. If you complete your personal goal, you will receive a challenge T-shirt and you’ll be able to sign the Challenge Wall.
2. If your team collectively completes more classes than any other team, your team gets two prizes:
THE FINE PRINT
1. Challenge begins on the first class on April 19 and ends after the last class on May 18, 2015.
2. Each person must complete a challenge card and keep it on file at the studio.
3. Participation will be confirmed by studio software — make sure to sign in for class!
4. All classes must be completed at SHY Mobile. Hot yoga classes completed at other locations will not apply to this challenge.
5. Teams will be randomly assigned by SHY staff.
6. Team members will be posted on the chalkboard.
7. Winners will be announced on May 23 after the 9:30 class. We will host a party at the studio for all challengers!
Tree pose and toe stand are the last two poses in the standing series of our Gold 90 and Sterling 60 classes. They seem fairly straightforward, but there are some aspects of the tree pose that bear clarification.
The tree pose that we do in our Gold 90 and Sterling 60 classes has the following purpose: To open up the hips, knees and ankles in preparation for toe stand, and eventually, the lotus position.
Compare the woman on the left doing lotus to the woman on the right doing tree pose in the photo below.
Notice how in both poses the feet are near the hip creases, knees are extended away from the center line of the body and feet are turned outward.
Putting your body into lotus can be challenging on the hips, knees and ankles, and like many poses, some people come to it relatively easily while others struggle for a long time to get there. Tree pose is a great way to help prepare the body for lotus.
Tree comes at a point in the series where your body is relatively warmed up. Your knees and hips and ankles have had the opportunity to open, and although your heart may be pounding, you are encouraged to slow down, focus and balance. Not such an easy thing to do!
Here are the steps to execute the pose:
1. Ground yourself in alignment.
2. Pick up your right foot with your left hand and if you need to, hold your right knee with your right hand. Be careful of your knee and your ankle. At any step, if you feel discomfort, proceed with care. If you feel pain, back off.
The goal is to put your foot in your hip crease, but your body proportions may require you to place your foot in a different place!
Look at the images below: The first woman’s foot is on her leg and it may never be on her hip because her shin bone is relatively short and her hips aren’t yet open.
The second woman’s foot is super high on her costume, because her shinbone is really long! Both are doing the posture correctly for their body type and for the condition of their hips, knees and ankles. Tightness in any of these joints may keep you holding on to your foot, and that is perfectly okay!
3. Slowly, gently allow your knee to come down toward the floor. Now remember the lotus pose — the knee is positioned away from the center line of the body approximately 45 degrees — so in tree, it is absolutely appropriate to have your lifted leg positioned away from the body.
The ball and socket of your hip joint may never allow you to position your leg so that it’s parallel to the standing leg and by forcing it, you could injure your hip!
Look at this group shot of people doing tree pose — everyone is trying the right way; no one’s legs are parallel. Not even close!
4. Eventually, when the hip joint and the hip flexors open up enough, you will have two legs in one line FROM THE SIDE like the photo on the left.
5. The last part of the pose is to find alignment on all planes. Stretch your spine up, and stretch your tailbone down to prevent your rear end from sticking out. Look in the mirror and work to get your shoulders level and hips level.
Avoid sinking into the standing hip. The yogi on the right is out of alignment — see how her shoulders are not level and her hips are not yet level? This is common especially when you have to hold your foot. But she’s working toward it and will be there soon!
If you are challenged by tree pose, that’s okay! Start slow, hold on to your knee if you need to, work slowly, take your time, focus on your breath and alignment as best you can. And know that you’ll be on the floor resting very, very soon!
Jessie grew up in Fairfax, Virginia as an athlete-turned-dancer. She found Bikram Yoga in 2012 during a very difficult time in her life.
As soon as she started practicing several times a week she noticed tremendous benefits in her focus, passion and peace.
Over time through consistent practice, she was able to heal the damage done to her body and mind and knew she wanted to share that gift with others.
She completed Sterling Hot Yoga Teacher Training at Casa Om in October 2014 and continues to take every opportunity she can to expand her knowledge of the practice.
Jessie will be with us on and off for a few months. She will teach Gold 90, Sterling 60 and Iron Hour! Welcome, Jess!
This is Reginald Wilson. Reggie started practicing with us in August of 2014. In his introductory month, he practiced 22 times. Since then, he practiced, on average, about three times a week.
This Superbowl Sunday, February 1, Reggie felt a tightening of his chest. His wife insisted he go to the hospital and after several tests, the doctors determined that Reggie had 100% blockage in one of his arteries and he needed a triple bypass.
After the surgery, the doctor asked him what he had been doing and Reggie told him, “Sterling Hot Yoga.”
The doctor said that there’s a good chance the yoga saved his life! His heart had actually developed alternate routes around the blockage and the strength of his systems got him through the surgery with relative ease!
Reggie returned to his practice this week and he is taking it slow and following our one rule. We are thrilled that he is Sterling!
Do you have a friend or family member who needs inspiration to come to class? Share this story!
What’s your story? I bet you have one!
Iron Hour helps build core strength, which helps improve your postures in the Sterling 60 and Gold 90 hot yoga classes!
In many of the standing poses in our yoga series, we talk about the locked knee.
The locked knee, in good alignment with the ankle and the hip, is absolutely important, and it takes a great deal of strength to maintain it for more than a few moments.
In Standing Head to Knee, locking both knees is especially challenging.
In this wonderful photo example, Jason Winn is executing the full expression of the pose where his arms are extended, no longer holding on to the foot.
Yes, absolutely, Jason has a tremendous amount of strength in his legs, but it’s core strength that’s holding it all together!
Strong abs, strong legs and strong arms (and a lot of determination) are what allows Jason to pull off this beautifully executed pose.
It’s strength that supports flexibility and flexibility that supports strength. And now, Sterling Hot Yoga Works can help you to attain both.
Adding Iron Hour to your practice is a great way to improve your Standing Head to Knee and many other poses! But remember, taking the Sterling 60 and the Gold 90 also helps you to maintain good overall health! It all works together!
Did you see some familiar faces on TV recently? Sterling Hot Yoga Mobile was featured on Studio 10, our local FOX affiliate’s morning show.
Lucille was on set to discuss the basics of hot yoga—such as the need for the heat and most importantly the breathing!
Then those familiar faces—some of our very own Sterling Hot Yoga Mobile yogis—demonstrated various postures, making this a wonderful opportunity to promote our studio.
Whether you want to learn more about Sterling Hot Yoga or you want to see some of your favorite yogis, check out this video!
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