Online yoga programs are really starting to get recognized!   On Thanksgiving, a Yoga Journal online article came out featuring the Yoga Odyssey!   It is good timing, because another Yoga Odyssey is right around the corner – starting January 6.   There’s an early registration deadline set for Monday December 21, so sign up now if you’d like to join us in January!

The Yoga Journal article is geared towards yoga teachers, so it talks about taking and also developing an online yoga course.   As this has been one of my main interests for the last 2 years, I was so happy that an article focusing on online yoga has come out!

I recently was talking to Ruth, a yogini who took the Yoga Odyssey about a year ago.   I’ve been amazed while talking to her over the past year, at how much the Yoga Odyssey really stuck with her.   I did a little “interview” with her.  Here are some highlights:

Ruth, who is 59, says, “I am not any kind of a ‘fitness freak’ at all.  I did start doing yoga in the early ’80’s, and have done it off and on since, but never with any true dedication.  It was just one of those things, where I had been talking to a friend and thinking about how I wanted to include more yoga in my life….then happened to read about the Odyssey and i thought, ‘wow, the universe is sending me this sign, just what I needed to give my yoga program a boost.”

Regarding how the month of yoga worked for her, Ruth says, ” It was fun, like having a new happy secret relationship (without the guilt!), to set up my practice space and devote that special morning time to it. Since doing the Odyssey, I pretty much can enjoy/appreciate/use any teacher’s style of yoga or any class situation. If I am tempted to be judgmental of the teacher, the others in the studio, the music or whatever, I just can get right into knowing that its MY practice no matter what. Today, I generally do yoga  5 times a week, and if its a day when I am NOT doing it, I am definitely thinking about it”

I love these words, I think they’re so powerful.  Wouldn’t it be great to give yourself this gift of 28 dedicated days to developing your personal practice?   A year from now, you will still be reaping the benefits of the Yoga Odyssey!

Be well,

Barrett