#shaktivinyasa

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Adam Levine DOES yoga (and talks about it). This is my fav so far. (I <3 him)

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Gwyneth Paltrow talks about yoga and how it's changed her life.

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Acro Yoga.

Another sexy (shh) yoga video brought to you by Equinox and their very attractive yogis - acrobat style!

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Yogi is the new sexy. (true story)

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I don't know about you, but I have always had a very sensative stomach, and knowing how yoga can help with things like stomach pain, etc, has helped me to live a better day to day life.

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/yoga-poses-to-ease-indigestion

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and now an Equinox yoga video for the guys. (Though I totally want to try this some day, you know once I can do those poses on stable ground.)

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Winter Solstice Special Class

December 22, 2012, 5:30pm & 7:15pm

Pre-register: drop in basis Cost: no additional charge,

all memberships honored and drop ins welcome Location: SHAKTI East in Bellevue, SHAKTI Redmond & SHAKTI West in Ballard

Join SHAKTI Instructors for special candle lit Winter Solstice evening yoga classes. Restore and renew your energy during the busy holiday season. Come to celebrate your own brilliant inner light, create heat to overcome the cold, and leave the class refreshed and ready for longer, sunnier days that lie ahead.

Seva is love in action, offering of service without expectation of reward. We will be supporting holiday families in need. Please bring a new, unwrapped gift for a boy or girl ages 7-15. Suggested gift ideas include iTunes gift cards, Target gift cards, a grocery gift card for the family, or a cash/check donation. All donations will go to The Center for Human Services. Please make all check donations payable to The Center for Human Services.

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Annual Thanksgiving Day Grace Benefit Workshop

with TBA @ SHAKTI West withTBA @ SHAKTI East With TBA @ SHAKTI Redmond

November 22, 2012

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI East at (425) 646-9642 or

West at (206) 297-9642 or Redmond (425) 867-9642 Cost: $20 or greater donation to NW Harvest, cash/checks ONLY to NW Harvest. Location: SHAKTI East in Bellevue, SHAKTI West in Ballard or SHAKTI Redmond

Join SHAKTI in the tradition of greeting Thanksgiving day with inner thanks and a fresh awareness of our blessings. Through pranayama, vinyasa, philosophy, readings, and meditation, you will expand your perspective of abundance and experience life with deep gratitude. Let's join together in this supportive community to stretch ourselves to a deeper place of "being with grace." Bring your friends and family. ALL LEVELS are welcome!

We work with Northwest Harvest each year to bring food to the hungry and needy through donation based special classes such as our annual Thanksgiving Day Grace Workshops. We have raised over $26,000 since we’ve opened in 2003 and are proud to support our community and raise positive awareness in the world!

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Yogi Couple

As always, the pics of couples doing yoga together gets me. Every. Single. Time.

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What We Like Wednesday!

First up: yogitoes! Especially because Shakti Vinyasa is a heated yoga studio, I feel that having something like this is especially necessary. I tried in the beginning to just use a map, but I sweat so much that by the end of the class, there was a pool of water beneath me, and I couldn't hold any of the positions because I kept slipping. Gross!

So eventually I broke down and bought the full mat version of yogitoes skidless towel. I was skeptical at first, because I had used a normal towel before, and while it helped it didn't do the job, but man-oh-man am I glad that I got this! I tried it for the first time the other day when I actually was able to wake myself up and go to yoga at 6:30 am. I know, I'm impressed with me too! ;) Anyway, I tried it out, and it worked PERFECTLY! <3 

I sweat like there is no tomorrow, and yet, this skidless towel absorbed all of it, and even made it "grippier" the wetter it got! 

For anyone who likes hot yoga, or just sweats a lot in general (like me), this is perfect to lay down over your mat to keep your grip during those downward dogs. 

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This is our official website (http://shaktivinyasa.com/), for when you want to know about our yoga class schedules, upcoming workshops, visiting teachers, retreats and so on.

Here on our tumblr, we will also give you updates about what we are doing, but we will also have fun posts such as: Monday Madness - when we talk about the beginning of the week and what get's us up on a monday morning, whether it's a meditation or yoga pose, or just a good cup of coffee. What We Like Wednesday - where we talk about what kind of clothes we enjoy doing yoga in, what mats we use and so on. Factoid Friday -  where we give you the facts about yoga; the benifits, the history, and oh so much more. ;)

Stay tuned. Things are about to get om-mazing!