Recently as I was heading in to take a yoga class in our Sandfly studio, one of our long time yogis said to me "I can't imagine how you feel when you come in here and see so few people in a class." I laughed and replied "That's why I practice Yoga."   The truth is it has taken a lot more than yoga in the last 18 months to keep the doors open at both of our studios. We have invented new ways of doing things, gone into a large amount of debt, and our staff has had to pivot over and over again.  It has been exhausting and taken its toll physically, emotionally, and financially.   ..read more

  Sometimes the teaching and the learning happen on different timelines. I once hosted a meditation teacher at the Yoga Co-op - it had to have been at least 12 years ago.    A random person cold-called the studio and asked if we would host Swami Ken. They sent a bio and short summary of him and we said sure.    Swami Ken showed up in orange Swami robes with a bunch of books and trinkets to sell and a young male assistant.  I was the host for the event and ushered them in. His assistant set up a table with all of the goods for sale while Swami Ken kept to himself ..read more

  Are you crazy?    Nobody would do hot yoga in a mask.   I’m a No.   I think all of those words came out of my mouth in the past few months.   And this morning I took my first hot yoga class wearing a face mask. Guess what? It was NO BIG DEAL. After the first few moments the temperature of the air inside the mask was pretty much the same as the air outside of the mask and I could almost forget I was wearing it. It was actually less noticeable to me than when I am in air conditioned spaces wearing one.   After class the other folks told me the same thing - i ..read more

Savannah Power Yoga is a privately held company. As such I am not required to share our financial information. I have also been told that it is impolite discuss money. Even so, I would like to share some information for those who are interested in supporting us through the financial struggles of COVID-19. PAST When I opened Savannah Power Yoga in 2011,  I invested some personal savings. During the first year, most of our revenue went to pay our overhead and payroll and I was able to earn a small amount of money and re-invest it in the business. At the time I was fortunate to be in a si ..read more

On the night of our Hospice Fundraiser in 2018, I lost a good friend. When the auction was over and everything was cleaned up, I went to my car to drive home. I was distracted by the events of the day but before I pulled away I called Carol to check on her. She was at Hospice House with her husband George. When she answered she told me he had just taken his last breaths and that she and their dog Jasper were sitting with him saying one final goodbye. I went and sat with them and said my goodbyes as well, reading the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying into the space, not sure if the ritu ..read more

Satsang: (sanskrit) being with good/righteous companions. This typically involves listening to or reading scriptures, reflecting on, discussing and assimilating their meaning, meditating on the source of these words, and bringing their meaning into one’s daily life.*  Starting in February, we will be creating Satsang once a month at the studio. The source for our discussion will be the Yoga Sutras, which have been described as one of the foundations of classical Yoga philosophy. Specifically, we will read and discuss The Yamas and the Niyamas by Deborah Adele. Last year, one of ou ..read more

The last couple of days I can best describe as demanding: we start with morning meditation, then 3+ hours of Yoga practice, interactive lectures and fine tuning our individual Yoga poses and transitions. I started Yoga June 1, 2015 because a good friend strongly suggested that I try Yoga and since I had recently retired I thought, why not? Of course, I met Kim and Kate at the counter and I have been coming back ever since.  I find the Yoga community at Savannah Power Yoga to be an astounding group of people and the members of my teacher training class are even more astounding as I ge ..read more

Have you ever wondered what was involved in becoming a certified Yoga Instructor? Ten of us applied for and started Yoga Camp this past Friday, June 9, 2017.  One from Kentucky, one from Athens, GA and the rest from the more immediate Savannah area.  Yoga Camp is a seven day ordeal of back-to-back yoga sessions, lectures and inquiry, in mainly 10-12 hour days. Our lead instructor is Kate and her number two is Kim. After Yoga Camp we pick up 4 more students for the four in-depth weekends of instruction across the summer.  Teacher training ends Aug 27, 2017. We started last Friday ev ..read more

Technology: science or knowledge put into practical use to solve problems It’s hard to admit out loud, but I have problems. They range from the mundane - I have to get the laundry, grocery shopping and house cleaning done - to the complex - I run a business with 25 team members and 500+ customers. These responsibilities in and of themselves are not problems, but sometimes it can feel overwhelming.  Right now, my problem shows up as me feeling overwhelmed. At other points in my life my problems were different - I was unemployed, I was taking care of a sick parent, I was heart-broken ..read more

I found yoga when I was fresh out of college with so many assumptions about how my life was going to progress. I thought I was going to move West, get a job as a documentary film editor, and maintain a practice to stay in shape. When no jobs or cities were standing out, I decided to stay in Savannah. Meanwhile, something was starting to happen on my mat. A couple years in I signed up for Yoga Camp, a seven day intensive. The state of exhaustion I was practicing in at the end of some days was not defeating, but powerful. The moments when I was laser focused on my breath just to stay o ..read more