#ghoshyoga

[ellie-ffe]

Farewell 2021 with a yoga class from @ghoshyoga Despidiendo 2021 con una clase de yoga de #ghoshyoga #yoga #yogaclass #happynewyear https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKrsFAr7Yf/?utm_medium=tumblr

[soulsoldier7]

This aligns with my time in the military and my personal yoga path. In the @warriorsatease training, a trainer mentions “it’s not about you”. This resonates. #Repost @ghoshyoga ・・・ DO NOT DO WHAT SERVES YOU A common statement in many yoga classes is "do what serves you." While on its face it seems like a useful and harmless instruction, it should be approached with caution. In yoga, doing "what serves you" takes you in the wrong direction for several reasons. First, we don’t know what serves us! As students, we should seek to expand our limitations and beliefs. If we act within the confines of what we already believe serves us, it's possible that we are simply building up the structures in our mind. Doing what serves us can build up a false sense of knowing. But this false sense of knowing is what the practice of yoga is trying to undo. ​ If we look at this statement "do what serves you" on a deeper level, we find conflict in it. This statement takes the definition of who we are for granted. Are we the body? Are we the mind? Who is the you this statement is talking about? In yoga practice, seeking the deeper definition of this word is the goal of the practice. Lastly, our job as yogis is to think about how we can serve, not to think about what is serving us. When we practice thinking about what serves us, our minds go in the wrong direction. With that mentality, we make the world into an entity that we believe should serve us in some way. We think about what we can get, and how we can personally benefit. But this is not the path of yoga...READ MORE>> Link in bio. . . . #ghoshyoga #ghoshyogawisdom #ghoshyogatradition #ghoshyogapractice #yoga #yogalove #yogalife #yogajourney #ghoshyogaforall #yogabeyondthemat #yogapath #blog #yogablog #ghoshyogablog #service #donotdowhatservesyou https://www.instagram.com/p/CMm2gielHAJ/?igshid=9tu4jcf4q32

[soulsoldier7]

Today was a quick see where I’m at full beginner practice. #ghoshyoga #yoga #yogi #practice @ghoshyoga (at Reno, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-syJnEl8zo/?igshid=ig9d4dx3lggh

[bwellbhappy]

Chilly temps outside requires time in the hot room! Join me tomorrow, and every Tues & Thurs, @esenemyogaflagstaff from 10:30a-11:30a for Hot Mix Yoga, where we practice @ghoshyoga lineage of the classic 26 & 2. (Pictured are two yogis in Utkatasana, Awkward Pose) #hotmixyoga #esenemflagstaff #26&2 #ghoshyoga (at Flagstaff, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IYsMVHnMyQ2JTP0jW6kIuxCSjSCqrLXtTXZU0/?igshid=551pet04j7g

[soulsoldier7]

#Repost @ghoshyoga with @get_repost ・・・ OUR FIRST TRIP TO INDIA Five years ago Ida and I set foot in Kolkata for the first time. I was certain it would be our only visit, since the circumstances were so utterly odd and couldn't possibly be replicated. We were searching for the roots of Buddha Bose's manuscript which had been written in 1938 but never published. The reason for its disappearance was unclear, and that's what we were in Kolkata hoping to understand. Ida and I were the second and third wheels of Jerome Armstrong, who had tracked down the manuscript through some impressive sleuthing. He didn't want to make a trip to the other side of the world alone and so enlisted our company... READ MORE>> http://www.ghoshyoga.org/blog/our-first-trip-to-india . . . #ghoshyoga #ghoshyogalineage #ghoshyogatradition #ghoshyogacollege #yogalove #yogacure #holykailas #theartofyoga #buddhabose #yogagistory #yogatravels #yogaexperience #yogaresearch #yogateachers #india #kolkata https://www.instagram.com/p/B17D5L6lJUl/?igshid=vkdb2wc9854v

[bikramyogainthemitten-blog]

Wow. So I have just realized that if I can literally shut down my intense and debilitating fear of heights at the top of the freaking Skydeck, and do this posture for 10 seconds, 100 stories above the Chicagoan part of this earth, I can probably control my mind and emotions enough to stop stressing about my missing wallet. The yoga STARTS at exactly the moment that the drama and whining and stress want to take over. #nomoredrama #comepracticewithus #perspective #ghoshyoga #bikramyoga #nononsense (at Bikram Yoga Capital Area)

[bikramyogainthemitten-blog]

We are very happy to officially welcome Jessica Beckman to the BYCA apprenticeship and teacher development program!!  One of the things that makes the practice and community and Bikram Yoga Capital Area so strong is the very high standards we maintain for our teachers, and we are EXTREMELY excited to have Jess joining our team.  All of our regular teachers have no less than 1000 (yes, one-thousand) hours of preparatory and training hours.  Read more details about our training philosophy, programs, and standards HERE.  

As part of her teaching apprenticeship, she will be attending the Raja Yoga Academy this fall in Huntington Beach, California, for a 500-hour training program.  

(Our interview with Jess will be coming soon.  But since we could not wait for this announcement, please feel free to check out this collection of photo highlights from the past year in the meantime.)

Jess is already immersed in preparations for the training, and you will see her observing regular classes and leading silent classes for the next several weeks. 

Jess has practiced over 450 classes at Bikram Yoga Capital Area since April 2015 and has been the dedicated leader of the Karma Yoga program since last fall.  This team is responsible for keeping our school looking beautiful, helping with promotions and advertising, and helping with overall organization.  Much appreciation goes to Jess on a daily basis, and also for her hard work and amazing contributions of time and energy over the past year.

Jess has completed many of our yoga practice challenges, including multiple 60-day challenges (shown above with Vic).  She also completed the Spring Buddy Challenge with Melissa, Marilyn, and Sparty:

Also very notable is that Jess completed the entire month of the “Stand Tall” Ghosh Yoga photo challenge in March 2016 with Ann, and with many valued (and fun!) contributions from several other BYCA students.  We truly had a blast and have lots of photo “bloopers” on record.  The challenge was created by our Ghosh-lineage yoga friends Scott and Ida Jo Lamps in Madison, Wisconsin, so we participated with them via the most miraculous telecommunication technology:

And that is Jess on the very left (below) at one of our BYCA workshops last year!!  How about all of those wonderful spines?!

Stay tuned for our interview with Jess, and feel free to visit her GoFundMe page in the meantime!!

[bikramyogainthemitten-blog]

The 2016 Yoga on the River event was a fun, sunny, HOT, and wonderful success!

Saturday, June 25, was a most beautiful day in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and we were so grateful for the relatively recent invention of sunglasses.   We are also very thankful to friends-of-BYCA Ian and Jenny O’Laughlin, owners and leaders of Detroit Bikram, for putting this event together each year with the help of the GM River Days organizers and the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.

Thank you to those in the Bikram Yoga Capital Area community who were able to attend the event with us, and also to all of those who were with us in spirit!!

One of the things that inspires me to no end is the diversity of people who can and do practice Bikram Yoga around the world.  Getting students, teachers, and school owners together from around the state helps us see how accessible and widespread this healing practice is and can be.

Scroll down to view more photos from the event, and see if you can spot some of your Bikram Yoga Capital Area YOGA BUDDIES as you go!!  

The most diagnostic and wonderful side bend of ArdhaChandrasana!!  Very nicely demonstrated by Eric and Kris!!

Figuring out those Eagle arms is never easy at first, but with practice it always improves!!

The famous “10-year posture”.  Or is it 20?!?!

For those of you always wishing to practice outside....don’t miss next year’s Yoga on the River!!  Looking at the sky in Triangle Posture is like nothing else!  :)

Ms. Hayley looking steady as always, even with the sun in her eyes!!

Wind Removing posture, healing digestion and spines for decades!

Melissa, Kris, Lindsey, and Aimee doing Cobra posture right into the sun!

A very strong Dhanurasana by Jess!!

The whole Bikram Yoga Capital Area crew leading the rest of us into Half Tortoise.

I love how this one captures the spirit of yoga buddies...helping each other every step of the way!!  <3 <3 <3

Some of Michigan’s Bikram Yoga Teachers who led us through the class.

For those of you who have been in class lately: hold the exhale position of the sit up with the lungs empty and abdomen compressed for one second in stillness.  See above for the visual.  Knees can be bent if needed.  ;)

We lost a few of our group by the time class ended, but we posed with the sign anyways!!

We even posed as extras in the local Fox News story....

Thank you again to all who led, participated, organized, and supported us!!  Looking forward to next year!!

If you made it this far and would still like a little more inspiration, check out the video from the 2015 event, featuring BYCA students Stephanie Cerda and the dearest late Martinis Thompkins:

Love and wishes for health, healing, peace, and awareness from everyone at Bikram Yoga Capital Area, Mid-Michigan’s only Bikram-Ghosh lineage yoga school.  <3 <3 <3