Reflecting on my very first class, in that ninety minutes, I could literally feel my pores cleansing and stress releasing. There was so much sweat, the blue dye ran right out of my shorts and stained my towel.

What Yoga Tribe Brooklyn Learned From A Week With Mary Jarvis

The first day of the year is always one of my favorite yoga classes.

Allow yoga to show you the new way to move forward.

Right after class, I always want to gulp down water with Superieur electrolytes — fresh watermelon flavor. A few hours afterward, I crave healthy food

Last week, Yoga Tribe Brooklyn instructor (and official studio photographer) Mónica Félix taught a class to raise money for Educamos Donde Sea, a non-profit in Puerto Rico enabling kids whose schools have been destroyed by the earthquakes and tremors to continue their education by setting up classes and resources in open spaces.

Sometimes our body can tell us more about what’s right and wrong than our mind.

Because our two million-year-old brain doesn’t want us to be happy, it wants us to survive.

Years ago my therapist taught me to ask the question, how can I make friends with this feeling?

Yoga is tough. There’s no doubt about it.

It’s tough on our bodies, tough on our minds, and if we practice with any kind of regularity, it’s tough on our schedule.

The goal of yoga is not perfecting mindfulness or levitating yourself into a meditating pretzel, but rather, creating an enlarged awareness of your bodily sensations.

“Don’t Move the way Fear makes you Move. Move the way Love makes you Move. Move the way Joy makes you Move.” -Osho