#sacredthreadyoga

It's done! The Hapeville monument sign is completed. Located behind #beergirl and #sacredthreadyoga Please come out to the Hapeville art walk tomorrow, August 19th. I worked really hard with @monsterartstudio to build this design for #cityofhapeville. Thanks to Jeff Riggan for teaching me SO much about traditional handmade letter construction and outdoor art. It was our first grant and I look forward to working on more. Thanks to #theneoncompany in #atlanta for helping us with the initial letter pattern. Your studio is sweet and all of you are old school! #artshapeville #monument #cityofhapeville (at Beer Girl, Growlers & Bottleshop)

In physics, Newton's 3rd Law says "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." In Alignment based #yoga we call it "Balanced Action". My mother always told me, "Too much of anything, even a good thing, can become a bad thing". Science, yoga and my mama....the three major resources and references in my life. I'm a Libra ♎️so my whole life's endeavor has been about finding balance. There are always two forces or energies at play...the yin/yang ☯️, inhale/exhale, masculine/feminine 🚻, discipline/freedom, strength/flexibility. In yoga it's about ENGAEMENT/EXPANSION, EFFORT/EASE, MUSCULAR/ORGANIC ENERGY. Balanced Action creates and optimal amount of both STABILITY and FREEDOM of movement in the body so energy can flow freely. Off the mat, Balanced actions in our life helps us to move and express ourselves freely and safely as we flow through life. Thank you to the 4 ladies that joined me this morning at my 9:30 am SLOW Flow class at @sacredthreadyoga O4W. One lady left the class saying "Wow, that felt like a workshop. You should really think about doing a workshop!" I receive that planted seed sistren. 3 more opportunities to practice with me this week. Monday 7:30p #strechandsmash @totalfitnessrev @sacredchillwest Friday 9:30a Flow and Be Still Saturday 11 am BEGIN #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #sacredthreadyoga #STY #sacredchillwest #SCW #flexibilty #mobility #stretching #eatclean #traindirty #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

Another week another Alignment Action from the #AlignmentJunkies @richard_rhucasey81 and @_carlybrown . This week it's all about firing up the muscles of our lower legs and feet. Toning the #calves, spreading the toes and lifting and strengthening our arches. We will be talking about the Balanced Actions of Muscular and Organic Energy as well as Ankle and Shin Loop. All of this while working toward some deep squats and a #anjaneyasana as our peak pose. Check us both out at @sacredthreadyoga O4W 9:30 am time slot. Me on Mondays her on Wednesdays. To find out where else around the city she is teaching hit her page to peep her schedule. #bowflex #blackboysteachyoga #blackboysdoyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #alignmentbasedyoga #sacredthreadyoga #STY #sacredsquad #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

@_carlybrown and I join together to make the #AlignmentJunkies. We have turned the 9:30 am time slot on Mondays and Wednesdays at Sacred Thread Yoga O4W into your weekly meetings where we talk Alignment and Actions. Join us for the next 11 weeks where our classes will be dedicated to breaking down and teaching specific Alignment Principles and/or Key Actions that will help unpack and deepen your understanding of a multitude of poses. Each week will be dedicated to a different principle/action and we will travel week by week from feet through the body all the way to the skull. At the end of the 11 weeks you will have an understanding and an infrastructure on how to align yourself in any yoga pose to help find the fullest expansion and expression of that pose. Join me Mondays at 9:30 am and Carly on Wednesdays at 9:30 am at Sacred Thread O4W. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysteachyoga #blackboysdoyoga #yogayogaeverydamnday #STY #sacredthreadyoga #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

"NOW...BEGINS....the exposition of #yoga" ~ Yoga Sutra of Pantajali 1.1 At this time of the year so many people are focusing on new starts, new intentions and new goals. They are deciding on the 1st day of the 1st week of the 1st month of 2017 that NOW is the time to BEGIN. Begin to eat healthy, get back in shape, start practicing yoga, start a budget etc etc. The commitment to BEGIN is commendable, but I am also encouraged that NOW doesn't have to be at the start of a new year, that NOW can be any moment in time that YOU CHOOSE it to be. That NOW can be at the start of a NEW BREATH, and that each moment is an opportunity to be your NOW, your moment to BEGIN or BEGIN AGAIN....and again and again if that what it takes. I want to say thank you to the 13 souls this morning that made my 9:30 am {Slow} Flow class at @sacredthreadyoga O4W their NOW. We worked on The principle of "Set The Doundation" grounding trough our feet, legs and hands, and "Opening to GRACE" aligning and finding length through our spine. We RECONNECTED to the foundational pose #tadasana aka #mountainpose over and over again, so we could RECREATE the actions in other poses and shapes. 2 more opportunities to practice with me this week. I would be honored if you made either of them your NOW moment. Friday 9:30 am "Flow and Be Still" and Saturday 11 am "BEGIN" both at @sacredchillwest #bowflex #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #SCW #STY #sacredchillwest #sacredthreadyoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #eatclean #traindirty #lululemon #lululemonHoMi #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #joblove (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

To me Santosha or contentment is so much about minimalism...."Less is more". It's about being "faithful with the little" that we are trusted with. After leaving corporate America and a job where I was making quite a bit of money each year but still being very unhappy, unfulfilled and unsatisfied with my life to transitioning to a non-traditional career in yoga/movement/fitness making a fraction of my previous salary I realized that LESS can be ENOUGH. If faithful and grateful with what you have, the little that you have been trusted with can be ENOUGH materially. Soon you realize the LESS starts to yield MORE THAN ENOUGH. More happiness, more contentment, more freedom. It's the same in my yoga practice. Like myself, many aspire to do complicated Level 3 contortion like poses or gravity defying inversions, the fancy stuff. But my view is that the general population of people only need simple Level 1 poses. If we are "faithful in the little", by fully participating in the balanced actions that bring about full expansion in Level 1 poses (like Tree Pose) we start to be grateful for the MORE, the more freedom, flexibility, range of motion and strength that these pose create in our bodies. It's only through that full participation in what seems like LESS that we begin to create the POSSIBILITY for our body to do MORE Level 2 and 3 poses and do them safely. It's through the "faithfulness, gratefulness and contentment in the little" that we prove to ourselves that we will be "faithful in the much more". If you want some more of Thur #fitnessandphilosophy feel free to join me on Mondays at 9:30 am at @sacredthreadyoga O4W from my {SLOW} Flow class. #bowflex #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #blackboysarephilosophers #yoga #yogaeverdamnday #STY #sacredthreadyoga #sacredathlete #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #treepose #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove s (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

"SHAPE SHIFT to STATE SHIFT." So many times in life when I'm annoyed or frustrated or angry I just want to get home and get on my mat to practice #yoga, to make shapes with my BODY, shifting how it feels. Then I notice that the tone and tempo of my BREATH has shifted as well. At the end after my svasana I realize that I have SHIFTED THE STATE OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS. Tomorrow (Monday) at 9:30 am at the {SLOW} Flow class at @sacredthreadyoga in O4W we will be making this specific lunge shape in all planes. On our knees, laying on our backs, standing and balancing on one leg. This asymmetrical shape puts our body out of balance and forces us to work the actions of pulling into the midline, helping to shift our default alignment more into balance. Now think about the asymmetry of your BREATH...are you inhales shorter than your exhales. What about the asymmetry of your life do you work more than your rest, or sad more than happy. Maybe a little SHAPE SHIFT in yoga, will help to initiate some STATE SHIFTING in your life. Come make shapes ⚫️🔺🔶◼️ with me. Come shift states ❄️💦💨with me. #namaste 🙏🏾👊🏾✊🏾✌🏾️💪🏾 #bowflex #blackboysteachyoha #blackboysdoyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #lunges #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #STY #sacredthreadyoga #sacredathlete #eatclean #traindirty #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at Sacred Thread Yoga)