A Fourth of July tradition will still take place this year to support the NEPA Philharmonic.

A Fourth of July Yoga tradition in Scranton is turning those downward dogs into donations for a special organization in our area.

Newswatch 16's Ryan Leckey highlighted the seventh annual "Yoga on the Roof" in Scranton. It happens this Saturday, July 4, 2020.

The event plays out this Fourth of July on top of the parking garage at The Marketplace at Steamtown in downtown Scranton.

It's spearheaded by Jaya Yoga in Clarks Summit. It involves one hour of yoga accompanied by live music.

This year's event will be modified a bit to accommodate CDC health and safety guidelines.

Organizers say yogis of all levels are welcome.

You're encouraged to come wearing a mask until the practice begins.

Participants are asked to bring their own mats, hand sanitizers, and water.

Pre-registration by midnight on Thursday, July 2, 2020, is required.

Head to this linkand proceed through the two steps. The first is to pay and register, and the second is to sign the waiver.

No walk-ins will be allowed at the event on Saturday due to social distancing guidelines.

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An event every week that begins at 9:30 am on Wednesday, repeating until Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Yoga For Every Body! Five more sessions, July and August

Have you seen pictures of people doing yoga in magazines, on Facebook and Instagram and said something like this to yourself? "I can't do yoga! I'm not flexible. I don't have the right clothes. I'm too old. I'm too young. I'm too fat. I'm out of shape. I can't get up and down from the floor." If you answered yes to this question, you are wrong. You CAN do yoga! You just haven't found the right yoga for YOU! Yoga is for EVERY BODY, and Leslie wants to help you.

Yoga for Every Body is a Gentle class that anyone can access. In this class, you will stretch and strengthen your body. You will learn how to breathe properly and how appropriate posture can completely change the way you feel. You will be exposed to what Leslie refers to as "the Yoga Toolbox" to discover different ways to combat the stress that is inevitable in life! Movement is incredibly important to your body, and Leslie will show you how to move safely and effectively through many different yoga movements. This whole class can be done in a chair if you cannot get up and down off of the floor. Props are not required; Leslie will demonstrate when/where props are appropriate at the first class, and you can decide if you want or need to use them. Dress in layers in loose-fitting clothing. Set up your mat at home and join us!

Leslie Gordon, E-RYT-500

Leslie teaches yoga classes and workshops in the Farmington Valley and loves showing people that anyone can do yoga! She has been teaching yoga for nearly two decades and is also a ThaiYoga, Reiki and Reflexology practitioner. She is the resident Yoga Teacher at FerryLaw in New Britain. Find out more about Leslie at her website, http://www.lesliegordonyoga.com. This is a virtual program.

Please register once, for the entire series. A Zoom link will be sent to you to attend each class.

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The wonder of yoga is that just about anyone can participate and enjoy its benefits!

In these trying times, we could all use a bit of a check-in with our perceptions of the world, and one way to do that is by practicing opening the third eye chakra through yoga. Celebs like Britney Spears and Danica Patrick are massive followers of the popular exercise program, and the wonder of yoga is that just about anyone can participate and enjoy its benefits.

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The third eye is located on the forehead, between your eyebrows. There are several moves performed throughout yoga that specifically aim to open the third-eye chakra and guide those who practice towards openness, enlightenment, and imagination. Here are our ten favorite third-eye motivating yoga poses.

The warrior positions are some of the most well-known moves in all of yoga. They can be elevated to become challenging or be used gently in prenatal yoga. A humble warrior offers a variation on the position of the arms and the upper body. It also shifts focus to tapping into the third eye chakra.With advantageous positions such as this one, it is no great surprise that celebrities everywhere are jumping on the yoga bandwagon. This move is powerful, stabilizing, and will help those who practice yoga stay in touch with their third eye chakra.

This one is pretty simple and straightforward. To achieve this, third-eye chakra yoga pose, spread your legs wide, and hinge at the waist. Feel the blood rushing to your head, pulsing, and breathe deeply. Next, reach behind you with both arms and attempt to clasp your hands together. Stay here, hanging or swaying slowly for several deep breaths. Be careful and make sure you stand up slowly after this one.

Another version of the warrior pose that helps to activate the third eye chakra is this move. Position your body in a warrior one stance. Take a few stabilizing breaths here and then move to winding your arms in a cow face position. Creating space in your chest and upper back area takes a bit of practice, so do your best to help your fingers meet, but don't push. Throwing a shoulder out won't help anything.

The aim of channeling the third eye is to better hone in on intuition and stabilize the mind, body, and soul. From there, connection and trust in your own path can evolve. This wide-legged forward fold helps to create the stabilization between the shoulders and the spine. A simple twist further stretches the spine. This is another move that will require you to stand up straight slowly so that you don't tip over mid fold!

The revolving lunge will take concentration and balance, but it will help you achieve that third eye chakra that you've been searching for. Position your legs in a warrior stance, with your front leg bent at a ninety-degree angle, not any further. Hinge over at the hips and bring your inner elbow to meet the opposite, bent knee. This movement creates a spine twist. Stay here and breathe deeply, sinking lower into the move with every breath.

The dolphin pose is pretty similar to the popular downward-facing dog that we so often connect yoga to. Instead of pressing into your fingertips, as you would in a downward-facing dog, lower, even more, pressing instead into your forwards.

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Keep your feet firmly planted on your mat as you let your head hang heavy here. If you can cross and clasp your hands, give yourself a gold star. It isn't as easy as it looks.

The locust pose looks a bit funny, but it's a great, soothing move to stretch out your spine and work your leg muscles. Even your core will thank you with this one. Essentially you lie on your front with your arms to your sides. Lift your legs and your chest off of the ground so that only your hips balance on the floor beneath you. Try to remain as still as possible, and don't rock about. Moves like this take a considerable amount of focus.

The camel pose is popular with those trying to activate their third eye chakra and is also popular with people attempting to open the heart chakra. With this deep backbend, several chakras open up, giving yoga lovers a two for one special.

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If you can't bend backward all the way and touch your fingers to your feet, then place your hands on your lower back and hold the stretch there. A modified move will always be a better bet than pushing something too far and causing injury.

The upward bow probably won't happen on the first or second try, but for those dedicated to their yoga practice, this move will open the third eye and help all sorts of muscle groups elongate. This is one of those moves where yogis can raise a leg or lift a heel, making the standard move all their own once they manage to grasp the basics. You're going to look like a pro when you pull this move out.

It's second only to child's pose in comfort. So long as you don't have bum knees or terrible hip flexibility, this move is money. In double pigeon, your hips open up and stretch, and as you extend your arms out, your spine will elongate as well. Everything gets pulled into a slow, beautiful burn of a stretch. Once you get into this little pretzel, you won't want to ever get out of it!

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Yoga is one of the best ways to help put the mind at ease. Even if you arent doing it as a workout, centering yourself through this form of meditation can be seriously beneficial. Of course, this practice can be even better when you have the right gear and equipment to enhance the experience!

A top-notch mat and a comfortable outfit are crucial, but sometimes people forget about their footwear! While its totally fine to do yoga barefoot, why not try out some yoga socks? This non-slip pair from VIFUUR can help your feet stay in place and your poses secure.

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These socks are made from a rubber material with ridges to make them ultra-flexible. Theres stretchy, breathable fabric in between those ridges so that your feet feel comfortable, and dont sweat too much. The sole on this shoe-sock hybrid is designed to help your foot grip to whatever surface its on, which is perfect when youre in the midst of a seriously demanding yoga flow!

But you can do so much more with these socks than just yoga. If youre heading out to the pool or beach, these will make excellent water shoes. They can protect your feet for sanitary reasons, and from getting hurt or cut by unexpected rocks or other foreign objects.

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There's no denying that Yoga is considered a way of life. And for a good reason! This ancient Indian practice has proven to be a great way to cope with the trials and tribulations that life inadvertently brings us.

Yoga is said to provide a retreat from chaotic and busy lifestyles and is a go-to for many people. This is true whether you're practising the downward dog asana on a mat in your bedroom, or previously at a yoga studio. Wherever you choose to practice, yoga does indeed have many mental and physical benefits.

Some of them include:

Given the fact that most of us are confined to the walls of our homes, with fewer permissions when it comes to moving about due to the lockdown, a sedentary lifestyle is more likely going to increase for most of us. That said, this is the perfect time to begin your fitness journey, and what better place to start than with yoga?

We have actress Pavleen Gujral show us some basic asanas that are super easy to do. Even if you're a first-time practitioner, you'll become an expert in no time.

Gujral leads us in a quick workout beginning with Yogasana or Padmasana, the Lotus Pose. "Now I am sitting in the Half Lotus Pose with one leg over the other. I am still not able to put the other leg over the other, which is the full Lotus Pose." Of course, as she increases her practice, she will be able to transition into a full lotus pose.

But why opt for Padmasana? This is a great pose to help you open up the hips, stretch the ankles and knees, calms your mind, increase awareness and attentiveness, keep the spine straight, help you develop good posture, ease menstrual discomfort and sciatica, keep joints and ligaments flexible, stimulate the spine, pelvis, abdomen, and bladder, and restores energy levels.

Says Gujral, "We put our hands on our knees, and we start by deep breathing. So take a very deep breath through your nostrils and try to take the air inside your stomach and deep inside your body. So let's start with that; now hold it there and exhale. So always start yoga with a couple of breaths, and if you are a beginner, I suggest you go very slow."

Gujral then proceeds to demonstrate the Paschimottanasana, which is the Seated Forward Bend. This is a pose that's ideal for helping a distracted mind relax and unwind. It's said to calms the brain and relieve stress and mild depression, stretch the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings, stimulate the liver, kidneys, ovaries, and uterus, improves digestion, relieve the symptoms of menopause and menstrual discomfort, soothe headaches and anxiety, and reduces fatigue. It's also a great way to treat high blood pressure, infertility, insomnia, and sinusitis.

Says Gujral, "We start with our legs straight. Then we stretch our upper body up with our arms up in the air and inhale. And as you exhale, bend down from your lower back and try to touch your feet and your forehead to your knees. As soon as you reach your maximum point, let go and just place your palms on the floor. Stay there and breathe. As you come up, you stretch your body forward and then come up. Put your arms at the back and try to raise your hips above in the air. Stay there. This is a nice anti-stretch."

While we can write everything you need to know about how to do a pose, we suggest you watch the video and learn all you can. After all, nothing teaches us things better than when we watch and learn!

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The rabbi is a yogi. And now also a childrens book author.

With her colorfully illustrated debut, I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book, Rabbi Mychal Copeland is aiming to introduce young children to Judaism through the vehicle of yoga, because, well it has worked for her.

In our tradition, the body is a way we connect to the Divine, explained Copeland, a rabbi for 20 years and a certified yoga instructor for 15. The body is a vehicle for prayer. We bow, we loosen our spines you dont just pray with words. Its all intertwined.

Copeland is just finishing her third year at Congregation Shaar Zahav in San Francisco, where in addition to her rabbinical duties she teaches some adult yoga classes. Previously, she was director of InterfaithFamily Bay Area and a university rabbi for 13 years, first at UCLA and later at Hillel at Stanford. Shes also exercised her writing skills as a columnist for J., Huffington Post and OnFaith.org, and as co-editor of a bookon LGBTQ inclusion in religious life.

Copelands personal and career paths have given her ample opportunities to explore what is known as embodied Jewish practice. That is, the recognition that our spiritual selves are integrally interconnected with our physical selves such that when we eat, drink, dance or pray, we can enliven our spiritual practice, she said.

Because children learn so much through their senses and movement, she believes childhood is a great time to capitalize on that and direct them toward an awareness of the spiritual.

There is growing interest in teaching children through movement, drawing on the link between mind and body, Copeland said. When we pair learning a concept like a Torah narrative with embodied practice, the learning can be accessed differently than if it were only read.

Her 32-page book, which was published in April, introduces common yoga poses, such as tree and crescent moon. Simple instructions enable any participating adult to guide children through the movements. The book is recommended for grades K-2 on the publishers website, and for grades 2-3 on Amazon.

In yoga, we dont pretend to be a tree. No, you become the tree, the lion, the fish, the mountain, she said. Its about seeing the self as part of the world.

Copelands interest in yoga began decades ago, and she has studied various yoga traditions that she brings to her classes.

The idea of writing a book came to her in 2015 on the porch of a girls cabin at Camp Tawonga, where she was a summer rabbi-in-residence for many years. We were having so much fun and the girls were asking about some of the Torah stories we were discussing. The yoga movements sparked more questions, she said.

What brought it all together, she recalled, was the tree pose.

In the Jewish framework, Torah is a tree of life. The idea really came through that Torah is alive, not something we interact with passively. And when we use our bodies in this way, stories come alive in us.

Copeland already had developed some of the material with her own two children now 12 and 15 when they were babies, and has had other opportunities to work out the yoga-Torah connection with older kids. Her concept for the book was to introduce children to movements, and use them to spark some identification with the stories and their lessons.

Kids go on a journey through Torah, bringing our stories to life through movement. They will stand like Mount Sinai, dance at the Red Sea and become the giant fish that swallowed Jonah, she said.

Her publisher, Apples and Honey Press, an arm of Behrman House, gave Copelands manuscript to an illustrator in Brazil, Andr Ceolin, whom she had never met.

One of the pieces that was important to me in creating the illustrations for this book was that the children doing the poses in the book would represent a diversity of children. There is not enough diversity represented in our childrens lit, Copeland said.

She described Ceolin as whimsical and expansive an incredible artist.

The book, her first for children, was published when the coronavirus pandemic largely was confining people to their homes. Soon after, she was able to use it as the basis of a virtual childrens yoga class she offered to her community on Zoom.

Its a useful book for these times, she reflected. Ive been thinking about having kids at home for many months, and how to keep active when sheltering at home. The book gets children moving and their parents, too.

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COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) Body Language Fitness and Yoga in Commerce Township has gone through a variety of ups and downs during the pandemic, their new challenge has been finding a place to workout.

This time has been an absolute roller coaster, said owner Andrea VanBehren.

They are now providing outdoor classes, but have had noise complaints at two separate locations.

Starting Monday, their classes will move to Edgewood Country Club, located on Commerce Road and Union Lake Road. They will have a spot near the volleyball courts.

We are going to be having classes Monday through Saturday, starting next Monday, said VanBehren.

They also offer Zoom and online classes as an option.

Another challenge they have faced, people canceling their memberships. VanBehren says she understands this is a difficult time. She says she has also seen a show of support.

There are several people that have been longtime loyal customers, clients, students that have keep their memberships rolling so that we can land on the other side of this, said VanBehren.

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situated amid the urban fabric of tokyo, japan, frontoffice has introduced the m house, a three-storey building that combines the design of a dance studio, a living area and a yoga space. with this project, the practice aimed to revive the experimental and creative local architectural activity of 1960s, when the city was expanding.

fitting into crowded space in tokyo

all images by toshiyuki yano, frontoffice

the design for m house by frontoffice is primitive, almost cartoonish a fitting approach for the clients, who design and sell a series of famously mysterious and unique dolls with a global following. making full use of tokyos rules and regulations, the structure maximizes space and volume on a typically constrained urban site, resulting in a simple plan three single rooms, stacked one upon the other.

dance studio half submerged within the site

the ground floor houses the dance studio, and is buffered from the road by a reflective aluminum screen, and otherwise opened to its surroundings by continuous windows and mirrors. dancers on this level, which is partially submerged in the sloping site, feel like they are a part of the city, not isolated. the residential space on the second floor is accessed by steel stairs with an exaggerated landing acting as a porch. this level is also accessible through an interior staircase hidden behind a mirrored door.

entrance to the studio beneath the stairs to the second floor

windows are placed economically to offer depth and light in an otherwise small area. no attempt is made to frame views because the city does not rest for long and views are fleeting. the garden and decks work with the interior to offer an un-mediated experience of the city. formal experimentation is often lost in the chaos of tokyo but with this project, the architects are aknowledging the start of a new period of massive change, the time to engage with the city more directly.

stairs to the second floor are hidden behind a mirrored door

hidden stairs connect dance studio into the home

living space begins on the second floor

bedroom and workspace with ladder to rooftop

parking and entrance straight from the road

entrance to the home is on the second floor

in the 1960s and 1970s tokyo was wildly inventive

tokyos crowded context

section the house is surrounded on all sides by porous surfaces to mitigate the ever more common problem of guerilla storms in the city

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Kindness Yoga Studios in Denver, Colorado offered gender-neutral bathrooms, person-of-color nights, and LGBTQ+ workshops but was still canceled for insufficient wokery. This just proves nothing is ever enough for the mob.

Despite being one of the wokest businesses ever, the chain of yoga studios has just been shut down after a localized Instagram storm accused them of performative activism.

Activism is by its very nature performative, especially when done on social media, but if this business isnt woke enough to survive the purge, I dont believe that there is one in existence that can keep up with these standards.

Kindness Yoga Studios has been going in Denver since 2001, and even by yoga studio standards, it is staggeringly progressive. The Colorado Sun reports that the business had gender-neutral bathrooms, person-of-color yoga nights where white friends and allies were asked to respectfully refrain from attending, and LGBTQ+ yoga workshops. It even had a donation-based model, meaning people werent barred from entry on the basis of their ability to pay, with some paying as little as $1 for a class.

That is uber-woke, that is avant-garde woke, that is to mainstream modern leftism what Terrance Malik is to mainstream cinema. People-of-color-only nights, LGBTQ yoga workshops, gender neutral bathrooms, and virtually free classes? Im personally amazed a business model like that managed to succeed, but, somehow, Patrick Harrington managed to make it do so for 19 years. All for it to be brought down thanks to a pincer movement of Americas current twin hysterias: Covid-19 and racism but mainly racism.

As the Black Lives Matter movement has gone from strength to strength in the USA and around the world, grievance mongers have been emboldened. Before the killing of George Floyd, there was already an uncomfortable willingness of some to cry racism where there was none, and fringe elements constantly hectoring people for their new religions sins, white privilege being the main one, replacing the old original sin of the Christian faith.

Others, like cultural appropriation, transphobia and unconscious bias, all fell into the purview of the new police of vice and virtue. Following the BLM protests around the world, they now enforce their new religion with the zeal of a crusader or jihadist.

Patrick Harringtons 19-year-old business came to a crashing end in the space of a few days earlier this month after two employees turned the mob on Kindness Yoga Studios with a couple of Instagram posts. A black former employee, Davida Taylor, took to Instagram to say that the studios performative activism was making it unsafe for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students and teachers.

Around the same time another former employee, an indigenous trans man named Jordan Smiley, also decided it was a good time to go after his workplace. Smiley accused white-owned yoga studios of having distorted yoga into foremost a physical practice, instead of a mental one, and have instituted a preference for a certain body type, color of skin, ableism and athleticism.

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I'm excited to announce that moving forward, Courageous Yoga will be live and in-person every Sunday in Denver! . All-Levels Flow June 14th, 21st, 28th, July 5th and 12th registration are open - link in bio. . Beginning this Sunday, the community we've maintained, nurtured and uplifted as a crew during the pandemic will come together to practice in breath and solidarity - and we're going to bring it. . Bring everything you learned in this interim, your sacred rage, your queer intuition, your ancestral wisdom, your leadership - your body just like you are. . We will revel in the healing and visionary energy that occurs most when we're in person. This will be a BYOP (bring your own props), donation-based, equitable and trauma-conscious environment - all experiences are welcome. . It is not enough anymore to be compassionate - it's time to be Courageous. . Class sizes are limited, so pre-registration is required. *June 14th sold out before I could finish this post - dont delay because I Cannot. Wait. To see you!! . And yes - online Zoom classes will continue as usual

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Neither Taylor nor Smiley raised these issues with Kindness Studios before they posted their grievances publicly. Smiley claims he didnt want Kindness to shut down but rather undergo serious inclusivity work.

Taylor seemed downright vindictive. When the white CEO started crying at her resignation, Taylor accused her of the weaponizing of sadness and tears in a viral video. She added: It is one of the more insidious factors of white supremacy and whiteness. And it is used as a tool and as a tactic to make me feel in this black body that I have done something inherently wrong to bring this sadness upon you.

Putting it bluntly, this is f**king insane. Harrington has seen 19 years of his life go down in flames, he is even having to sell his house to cope with the financial fallout of these baseless accusations of white supremacy and hatred. The very idea of a white supremacist yoga studio is ridiculous, it was invented in India for Christs sake. But no matter, this mans livelihood can go up in smoke because he isnt quite woke enough. He tried, they told him the pictures on his website were too white, so he invited people of color to take part in a photoshoot, but of course this was tokenism. Too bad, whitey, your business has to go bye-bye.

Interestingly both Taylor and Smiley are now opening their own yoga studios funny old world, isnt it?

The most tragic thing of all? Harrington cant even bring himself to call out these baseless and mendacious accusations for what they are. Despite being upset, he acknowledges that my privilege could have me blind to [their grievances]. Im trying to learn.

Maybe if Harrington tries hard enough, he will finally learn to love Big Brother.

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Courage can be hard to come by, at least for me. Though I know I have it, it can seem fleeting when I need it most. And, it's for that reason that I was excited to see a 27-minute flow to foster courage on Adriene Mishler's YouTube channel.

The video starts with some neck work which, after a long day, felt extra wonderful. Then, there's a few Cat Cows to get the spine loose and activate the core. The flow is full of high lunges, and it challenges you to stay grounded with transitions from Warrior One into Warrior Two and Peaceful Warrior.

Besides getting a great stretch in the back of the legs from the Forward Folds and Downward Dogs, this flow targets the abs with planks during which you are encouraged to declare quietly "I am strong," one of my favorite recurring lines Mishler uses often plank toe taps, and a variation of plank hip dips to work the obliques.

For me, the most overt moments of courage came from doing Warrior Three with airplane arms like we were flying and a quad-heavy pose I'd never done before: Twisted Chair. The flow concluded with some tension-releasing Lion's Breaths where we had the tongue out long and mouth open wide, Child's Pose, and Savasana.

The challenges that the video brought humbled me into being patient with myself and helped me hone my courage amid some of the more difficult poses. Mishler ends on an empowering note. "Remember: just the mere act of showing up can be so incredibly grand, so beneficial, putting us in a position physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically to be brave, to be confident," she says. "And when we feel that courage, it's incredible what all we can do, what all we can share, how we can serve."

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