The Mat Yoga Studio, at both of its locations in North Dallas and Plano, has brought back its yoga challenge! The challenge? Deciding to take 3 or 4 classes each week for the month of April. I’ve seen variations on challenges at The Mat and other studios in the past…
Restorative yoga is a “gift to yourself.” That’s what one of my teachers said a few years ago during a restorative weekend workshop. In thinking on it…yes, that’s exactly what it is. It’s a class where I carve out time and settle in with props and minimal effort and it…
For some time now, The Mat Yoga Studio has offered yin yoga classes – including a weekly combination class of yin and yoga nidra. When I first saw that on the schedule, I remember wondering what yin was. I’d been familiar with various names for an open level class (Open…
I like to write about intention-setting at the start of the year. It’s certainly a topic many examine right about now. Last year I talked about getting creative with goals – or resolutions – in the midst of so much uncertainty (such as how can I experience new places with…
There are some themes over the last year that I wanted to revisit in a 2021 wrap-up post. To start, I wrote last month about my gratitude for the community I’ve found at The Mat, and I suspect is found by many with their yoga studios. While I talked about…
Coming into November, I planned to write about gratitude. I had a good idea in mind to revisit the gratitude I feel for this yoga community and this space, and was working out what I wanted to say about that. And then the idea of a community was really highlighted…