Author: mikhaylaharrell
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Yoga Teacher Training….Is it for me?
Should I become a yoga teacher? Do I have the time to do a training? How is this experience different than taking weekly classes? Have you teeter tottered on these questions too?
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Fall Happenings
The season is full of change, and I am excited to share both big and small developments.
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WHY WE RETREAT: TRAVELING OUT OF THE BOX AND BACK TO THE HEART
We have all seen ads on social media, in our email inbox, on glossy magazine pages, and maybe even on television for exotic getaway yoga and meditation retreats. With the current popularity of yoga there seems to be a retreat that appeals to every lifestyle, school of yoga, and travel enthusiast. So how do people…
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MARFA IS FOR LOVERS: MUSINGS + YOGA + ART
You run like a herd of luminous deer And I am dark, I am forest. You are a wheel at which I stand, Whose dark spokes sometimes catch me up, Revolve me nearer to the center. -Rilke, The Book of Hours Nine hawks and thirty ravens, lining my path down the Texas road. Sitting now…
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NOLA = CRAZY PURNATVA + ARTISTS’ RENAISSANCE = HOME
“I am kin of the birds. I was raised up in the woods with them and I lived with them until I was twenty years old. They were my first music teachers and they never sang a note that I could not translate into human language.” -Eliza Jane Nicholson Nola is a banana republic, rife…
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THE BEES KNEES THROUGH YOGA ASANA
This fall I went on a clandestine night adventure with a friend here in New Orleans. Our journey entailed exploring a secret park and ended with me ninja jumping (or so I thought) from a chain-linc fence breaking one foot and spraining the other. It was the first time I had ever broken a bone…
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EXQUISITE LOTUS YOGA CALENDAR LAUNCH! DECEMBER 5TH, 2014
PressRelease PDF Press Release NEWS RELEASE Mikhayla Harrell Yoga Exquisite Lotus Yoga Calendar Yoga in New Orleans Exquisite Lotus Yoga is a fine art Calendar featuring some of the most inspiring yoga instructors in New Orleans. While our city has many memorable sites and places, it is the lesser known areas of town that reveal the true unadulterated…
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NAMASTE Y’ALL! AUSTIN + YOGA + ART + TURRELL = BINGO
Austin. The streets are clean, the people are friendly, the restaurants are good and the hipsters abound in mass quantities. When I say hipsters I do not mean the original cats, I mean the unicorn rainbow tatt strutting, heavy beard in the middle of summer, fixy riding, cowgirl boot variety. You know, hipsters a la…
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NECTAR ME = LUSH TIMES IN NC
Lalita, the one “who dwells in the forest of bliss, whose ornaments glisten with gold, who wears a great pearl necklace, whose mouth rolls with wine, who is the giver of great compassion, who has wide eyes and wanders free….” Shankara Viridian, artichoke, aquamarine, vetvier, forest, moss, myrtle, pine, tea, teal, olive, hooker, fern, emerald,…
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RESETTING THE EGO…… WHY I STILL PRACTICE LEVEL 1 YOGA
It’s a cloudy and thick summer Saturday in New Orleans and a bright, energetic crowd has just finished a Level 1 Align & Refine yoga class with Amanda Smear-Baudier at Balance Yoga & Wellness studio. A sweet timbre of enthusiasm and ease washes through the reception room where students chat and pack up their belongings…
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