Hey folks, Dave and I are teaching a Yoga Body Buddha mind workshop this weekend at the wonderful Blue Point Yoga Studio in Durham, North Carolina. You are all welcome to come to all or part of the weekend. Four sessions: Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. For more details check out www.bluepointyoga.com.

Monday night we took Chama to his first Broadway show which was Fela! It’s so brilliant — go see it if you have a chance. Bill T.works his magic, as always, and it is just very fun and inspiring. And guess what? One of the dancers is an OM yoga tt grad — Gelan Lambert.

Tuesday was Chama’s last night in New York and his mind was turning back toward Tokyo. So he said, “Let’s have ramen for dinner!” We were so happy. The whole time we were in Japan we said, Take us to eat ramen, but it never happened. So here we are in New York City and it was a little bit of Tokyo heaven for us all.

We miss you, Chama! Yogis everywhere — make sure you go to Tokyoyoga in Shibuya or Aoyama or Osaka when you visit Japan.

After the workshop, Detlev and I came out to the OM yoga living room and there was Chama! Remember him — he is the Director of Tokyo Yoga. So it was my great pleasure to introduce Detlev and Chama to each other since they are both OM yoga teachers — one in Germany and one in Japan. Of course, they were delighted to meet and had a big hug.

Then we went outside and Chama did a sumo dance in front of this beautiful car parked right on Broadway.

Friday morning we had an OM yoga teachers’ sangha meeting. This was a really special one because not only were most of the NYC teachers there but we were able to connect via Skype with our OM yoga affiliate studio, Evolution Yoga, in Cleveland and the OM yoga teachers there. We did a practice together, reviewing the templates as well as a special teaching by me on Flat Back, Ardha Uttanasana, and how to teach it for different levels. The practice was led one by one by each of the tt faculty members: Christie Clark, Joe Miller, Frank Mauro, Margi Young and Sarah Trelease and me. When we weren’t leading a template, we were assisting and adjusting so it was a really cool bonding class experience.

Frank talked about teaching Basics and Joe talked about teaching express classes and I talked about the altar and there was more stuff, too. Then I showed a video of one of the Japanese OM yoga tt students teaching the Surya Namaskar template. I thought it would be fun for the NY teachers to see their counterparts doing the same thing they do — only in Japanese![caption id="attachment_543" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Watching Yuko teach a warm up vinyasa in Japanese. Remember Yuko? She is in a previous post trying to touch her nose with her tongue -- what a yogi!"][/caption]