by Carmen Champion | Oct 12, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Teacher Talk, Yogic Journey
I’ve never felt a sense of completion by finishing a To Do list. That’s the goal, isn’t it? Except, the To Do list is a magical being of judgement. If I were to put a fairy tale spin on the To Do list, I might even wonder if the To Do list is a curse of the wood...
by Carmen Champion | Oct 5, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Yogic Journey
I wouldn’t call myself a controlling person, but I do have a heightened need to guard myself at all times. I sometimes wonder if I clawed through my skin, would my nails eventually scrape the metal? I can feel the weight of the armor some days as it travels up...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
This article is Part 2 of last weeks letter. Why would I say something like that? Because we need to get ourselves out of the expectation that there is only one way to access our body and that everyone has to access it the same way. We need to redevelop a sensitivity...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
I begin each Yoga 101 session with everyone sitting in a circle. No mats yet, its too soon to roll out the mats. The mats set an expectation and I want to wait on that for a bit. Some of the people in the room have never taken a yoga class before, so rolling out the...
by Carmen Champion | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
I believe marketing for yoga is doing the industry a disservice. It isn’t serving me and it DEFINITELY isn’t serving you. Where did it begin? Was it when P90X made yoga an exercise? When marketing firms only use young, blonde, skinny women in campaigns? Or was it when...
