The Hugger Mugger Yoga Blog

Marketing Yoga Classes with Soul How we market ourselves has grown exponentially in recent years. Between social media, print ads and printed material, word-of-mouth, collaboration with...

Yoga Injuries: Whose Fault Are They? This morning, YogaDork posted an article about a man who successfully sued a Bikram studio for a severe back injury....

Share Your Gifts with the World Ask for what you want. Think big and ask big. In an infinite world even the largest request is small....

Marketing Your Yoga Classes with Soul As I prepare to offer my first Curvy Yoga classes this month, I’ve been renewing marketing of my classes, and...

If you plant a garden, you know that August is your garden’s most bounteous month. Squash, eggplant, potatoes, onions, sweet corn, peppers, and of course, succulent...

Got Emotion? Yoga Can Help — But Not in the Way You Think I feel fortunate. I got to grow up in a time and with...

When Your Yoga Teaching Just Doesn’t Do It For Someone Sometimes those who come to our classes are exhilarated to be with us, having chosen us...

Mindful Living:  Being Present in Your Daily Life Mindfulness has become a buzzword in the yoga world. I read a lot about mindful living, mindfulness practice....

In 1988, I attended my second 10-day silent Vipassana (Insight) Meditation retreat. The retreat began on December 26, 1988 and ended on January 6, 1989. One...

How do you inspire your yoga practice? Do you practice with a particular teacher, or at a studio you love? Do you attend Zoom yoga classes?...

Yoga Poetry Do You Know Where You’re From? Blue falling off its ledge the expanse collapsing into pale rain or nothing but sun. Do you know...

Silent Yoga Mind – Equanimity in Chaos I just returned from 10 days of silence on an Insight (Vipassana) Meditation retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center....

Starting a Meditation Practice:  Rituals Work! I’ve never been much for formality. It’s a familial thing. My parents’ spiritual proclivities—if they had them—were very much their...

The Language of Bodies Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I use words to describe bodies of various sizes and shapes, thinking catalyzed by...

Yoga Selfies – What Do You Think? Last week the New York Times published an article about the recent wave of yogis that are posting photos...

Gentle Yoga Leads us to the Heart of Practice Throughout the past few years of the yoga boom, as I’ve become more familiar with the yoga...

Some years ago, I took a weekend vacation to the Southern Utah desert. I planned to leave right after my Thursday morning Yoga class, which meant...

Salamba Sarvangasana:  Bloom a New Perspective Looking to see the world from a new perspective? Going upside-down is one way to shift your point of view—literally....