Will Tweet for Yoga

It’s been over a month since I’ve been to my yoga studio. Since my teacher training program ended, I’ve been enjoying a more relaxed pace during evenings and weekends. But yesterday, I struck up a deal that will get me back in the studio for one good class per week. I’ll be blogging, tweeting, and facebooking on behalf of my studio in exchange for yoga.

Home practice is the meat of my asana routine, but I’m anxious to get back to class to spice things up a bit.

Free-Form Yoga and Jazz this Saturday

"[Yoga and jazz] seek always to make spontaneous and real the exploration of these structures through lack of structure." -Kim Weeks

This Saturday, V Street (between 13th and 14th) is being renamed Langston Hughes Way by the District. In honor of this renaming, The Greater U Street Historic Foundation is throwing a block party!

From 12 pm to 4 pm, there will be live jazz, a moonbounce for kids, food, and fun for everyone. A few of us from Boundless (my yoga studio) are showing up from 2:30 pm to 4 pm to do free-form, self-led yoga in an open field (the one right behind the Busboys and Poets building), where jazz will be playing, kids will be moonbouncing, and people will be generally hanging out and having a good time. There’s nothing else! Just an opportunity to show up, do some spontaneous yoga practice to the sounds of great live music—on or off your mat.

So come on out and bring a friend. Look for people in Boundless t-shirts doing yoga. You can follow if you want, or just do your own thing. This is an opportunity to get totally into the groove and into your own body. Just as the jazz musicians will be demonstrating the beauty of jazz (think notes, scales, tones), we’ll be demonstrating how beautiful asana can be done (think bones, muscles, organs). See the connection?