Since it began in April 2009, the Yoga Trek Community Yoga and Meditation Classes have collected more than $1,700 from our students. These classes are offered for free on Sundays (4:30 – 5:30 pm for yoga and 5:45 – 6:15 pm for meditation) but we do collect donations from students. Our teachers volunteer their time to teach each one-hour class. Read the rest of this entry »

September is lots of things: the commencement of high school football season, the time to harvest brussels sprouts and parsnips, my friend Shannon’s birthday, the launching of the fall season, and, of course, yoga month, the autumnal equinox, and the Global Mala for Peace Project. Yoga Trek will be participating in the last three on September 23^rd during Alison Welch’s 7:30 pm class. Read more to learn what this will entail and how you, too, can more eagerly kiss summer goodbye and do your best to be open to a darker, colder season ahead – and support a cause bigger than yourself.

Yoga Month is a public relations campaign designed to encourage yogis, yoga studios and students to share the benefits of yoga with others and “inspire our citizens to lead healthier, happier lives.” Basically defined, the autumnal equinox is simply the time (just like the spring equinox) when “the earth’s axis of rotation is perpendicular to the line connecting the centers of the earth and the sun” according to timeanddate.com. Shiva Rea’s Global Mala Yoga for Peace project has a purpose to “unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a ‘mala around the earth’ Read the rest of this entry »