Tag: yoga
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Colorado mom turns dream into reality: A new home for fitness at Pilates House Studio
The body knows what to do. Feed the baby. Change the diaper. Start another load of laundry. Try to sleep, wake up and do it all over again. The brain, however, can take a little longer to catch up. Motherhood comes with a lot of things no one can fully prepare for: the sleepless nights,…
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Pikes Pick: Spend your Sunday on a mat, not the couch
If your Sundays are starting to feel like a never-ending loop of scrolling, snacking and promising yourself you’ll “do something productive later,” CorePower Yoga offers an easy reset. Every Sunday, the studio at 623 N. Nevada Ave. hosts a free heated yoga class designed to help locals stretch, sweat and mentally reset before the week…
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Practicing yoga among thousands of butterflies: Rainforest yoga at Butterfly Pavilion
WESTMINSTER • Within the warm, humid habitat of the Butterfly Pavilion’s immersive rainforest, more than a dozen yoga mats lay scattered along pathways. Class begins and students sit in lotus. Gently, a white butterfly flutters and rests on the shoulder of a practitioner. The class progresses, and a gray, striped butterfly briefly lands on the…
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Rainforest yoga at the Butterfly Pavilion
The Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster offers unique yoga classes within its tropical rainforest exhibit, where participants practice surrounded by thousands of free-flying butterflies. The classes, which are popular and offered year-round, provide a serene environment that connects people to nature while promoting the Pavilion’s mission of educating about the importance of insects and rainforest ecosystems.
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Live Well: Colorado Springs instructor offers new twist on classical yoga
Yoga looks different here in this bright and cheery space on the west side. On a Friday morning at Westside Community Center, more than a dozen students unfurl their mats on the hardwood floors of Modern Yoga Colorado’s second-floor studio that looks out on Pikes Peak. They’re here for instructor Brooke Sakharia, who has changed…
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Study links good balance to longer life. Here’s 3 ways to improve yours
We need balance for everything we do in life, from walking, getting up from a chair, stretching and even tying our shoes. According to a study, there’s a link between having good balance and living a longer life. “After taking participants’ age, underlying conditions, weight and other factors into account, scientists determined that failing the…
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Live Well: Teaching yoga at height of pandemic ripe for comedy in new Colorado Springs solo show
Wellness culture was a tricky place to exist during the pandemic. And how better to explore that gray area than through the lens of a middle-aged, struggling yoga teacher named Jillian. In “Yoga with Jillian,” playwright Lia Romeo’s one-woman show, the titular character is a corporate lawyer who finds her true passion — yoga —…
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Pikes Pick: Cripple Creek, Victor offer yoga festival
Take your yoga practice out of the studio and into the mountains this weekend at Cripple Creek & Victor Yoga Fest. Events include vinyasa classes, yoga nidra, a sound bath and more, and take place throughout the region, including the Cripple Creek Heritage Center, the Elks Lodge in Victor and Aspen Mine Center. Single tickets…
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Live Well: Colorado Springs yoga nonprofit offers free, sliding scale classes to all ages
It’s highly unlikely anybody has ever said, “Gee, I wish I hadn’t learned how to do yoga, or breathe a little deeper or learn how to quiet my brain.” Even before enduring 18 months of stress induced by the pandemic, learning all of the above might have ensured a better existence. Peaceful Warriors, a Colorado…
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Live Well: Colorado Springs yoga nonprofit offers free, sliding scale classes to all ages
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s highly unlikely anybody has ever said, “Gee, I wish I hadn’t learned how to do yoga, or breathe a little deeper or learn how to quiet my brain.” Even before enduring 18 months of stress induced by the pandemic, learning all of the above…