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Laruga Wakes Up at 2:45 AM For Yoga!

By Claudia on June 22, 2015 in Ashtanga, Inspirational, Mysore, The Yoga Podcast

Laruga Glaser couldn’t help but being a yoga teacher… Life kept drawing her into it, even when she was kicked out of a yoga teacher training, it was not because of bad behavior but because… well, I’ll let you hear it from her:

If you don’t see the big photo with the play button click here to start listening to The Yoga Podcast episode #12 with this extraordinary practitioner and teacher.

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What is Special About Laruga

Even though she experienced hardships growing up, meaning abuse, which I can relate to, she learned through yoga to transcend and heal.… Read the rest

Yoga: How I lost 30 Pounds-Never Saw Them Again

By Claudia on May 20, 2015 in How To, Mysore

In January of 2008 I set off for a long trip to India to study in Mysore, when I returned in late February I was 30 pounds lighter and I have kept that weight off ever since. It’s been 7 years!

A friend who knew me “before” and then “after”, recently asked how did this happened. Exploring her question led me to understand that it was not just because of the yoga, or the food, and certainly not because I was mean or deprecating to myself.

Here is what I learned and the new healthy habits I implemented to allow the release to happen.

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Ashtanga Yoga: Is Mysore Becoming Unsafe For Women? 3 Things You Can Do Now

By Claudia on March 24, 2013 in Mysore, Travel

A woman has recently been attacked by men in the area of Gokulam in Mysore as she was walking towards the led-ashtanga yoga-class that is held at 4:30 in the morning, and we are told, she would have been raped would it not have been for neighbors that intervened and stopped it.

Who tells me this? Anu.

Anu runs a cafe in Gokulam, Mysore, only a few blocks from the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute to which hundreds of students pour in during the months in which Sharath and Saraswati Jois (grandson and daughter of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) open the doors to teach.

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God’s Speed

By Claudia on February 16, 2012 in Mysore, Personal, Travel

At the very start of the trip back from Mysore to Bangalore the driver stopped suddenly and for now reason. I asked what happened? He said it was because of the temple. I liked that idea, even thought it auspicious. But as with everything in foreigner lands, things get lost in translation, it turns out he was really waiting for a call indicating that food was ready and he could pick it up before even picking up his co-driver. We had two more stops I was unaware of. I was upset. Not so much for the time, I knew we would make it to the airport with plenty of time for my flight, but more because he did not tell me the truth.… Read the rest

SUNDAY YOGA BLOG TIMES: LED THIRD SERIES IN THE CARDS FOR MYSORE?

By Claudia on February 12, 2012 in Mysore, Personal

Annnd… we are back! Here is hoping we will get some resports from Sunday conference in Mysore soon, in the meantime the Sunday Yoga Blog Times is coming back as we slowly return to the pacing of being back at home. Enjoy.

Sharath has a plan! Third series while on led intermediate anyone?

San Francisco gets its own yoga studio space. Can’t wait to go through terminal two.