How Cancer Made Me A Healthy Yogi

September 11, 2010

How Cancer Made Me A Healthy Yogi
By Wade Mortenson
I recently received an email from my friend Andy. He told me that he has just returned from spending a week caring for a friend in Springfield, Missouri. His friend had just undergone his second surgery to remove lung cancer and will soon begin intense [...]

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Liberation from the Gym: The Magic of Ashtanga Yoga!

July 31, 2010

Featured in EVOLVING Magazine Sept 2010 Issue:

Liberation from the Gym: The Magic of Ashtanga Yoga!
“Ashtanga yoga is not for lazy people” – Ashtanga Yoga Guru Pattabhi Jois

Ashtanga yoga is the closest feeling to being HOME that I have ever experienced. This challenging yet infinitely rewarding style of yoga has changed my life in so many [...]

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Yoga vs Weightlifting

July 22, 2010

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
Think about this quote for a second and ask yourself, does this quote apply to the way you treat your body?
I get several questions from people asking if they can replace lifitng weights with yoga.
Before I [...]

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Kansas City Vegan; For Health, the Animals and the Environment

May 14, 2010

We believe that the first precept of Ashtanga Yoga, ahimsa (non-harming) applies not only to fellow human beings but  includes all of the members of the animal kingdom.  Not just the loyal ones or the cute cuddly ones that purr but all of the sentient beings, beings that feel, even the ones that we as a [...]

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Vegan for LIFE!

April 29, 2010

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.” -Paul McCartney
I am grateful that on a soul level, I was born a vegetarian. I loved and respected animals as a young child, even though I was raised in a meat eating family in the middle of Kansas! I remember getting violently ill, after eating [...]

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Confessions of Yoga Studio Owner

April 29, 2010

“I heard Shiva came down on your yoga studio, “ my friend said, after hearing that my yoga studio had burned down in a fire.  ‘”What a positive perspective,” I thought to myself. With all the tragedy surrounding the studio fire, I hadn’t stopped to think of it as a positive sign of transformation and [...]

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Being a Vegetarian in Kansas City…

April 29, 2010

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” -Abraham Lincoln*
What do Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Leonardo da Vinci and Gandhi all have in common?
They were all vegetarians!
Isn’t it [...]

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Meditation: God is in the Silence

April 29, 2010

Meditation Article written for Yoga Magazine: God is in the Silence by Kathleen Kastner
“Everything else can wait, but your search for God cannot wait.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
The great yogic philosopher, Patanjalim defined yoga as: “yogas citta vrtti nirodaha”, yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.  Notice he didn’t say, “He who does handstand [...]

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Ashtanga Yoga Compared to Other Styles of Yoga

April 29, 2010

Styles of Yoga:
Hatha – Physical (Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Bikram, Iyengar, Sivananda, Viniyoga, Kripalu)
Raja – Mental
Bhakti – Devotional
Kundalini – Energy
Karma – Selfless Service
Jana – Knowledge

Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga continuously flow from one posture to the next, in a vinyasa style of movement. This style of movement helps increase the efficiency of the cardiovascular and respiratory system, giving [...]

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Yoga’s Power Over Addictions!

April 29, 2010

“Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that “something else” he hopes will bring him happiness. Complete and unending, for those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over. He is that something else.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
I used to be a full-time personal trainer twelve years ago and I would [...]

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