Yoga Community

June 5, 2011
Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? If you have ever had the pleasure of taking a class from Michelle Allgaier, Yoga Community’s founder & original owner, you may have heard the creation story.  YC was one of two studios in the Tri-Cities when yoga was mostly taught in health clubs.  First located next to Aqua Tropics, when you walked in to the studio you could never be sure what you would find; a corn snake in the bathroom, a kangaroo rat dropping in though the ceiling, various …

The Meaning of OM

April 8, 2011
Did you ever wonder why we chant Om during yoga classes??  If you ask, you often get an obscure answer like “It’s the sound of the universe” or “It represents the past, present and future.”  These confusing answers never really satisfied me – but once I studied the subject, I understood why it’s so hard to answer.   There’s so much depth and richness to the answer, it’s hard to cut it down to a “sound bite” appropriate for a short answer.   The sound bites don’t do it …

Yoga Philosophy…Talk on a Cereal Box?

November 24, 2010
When I first started exploring yoga philosophy, my husband routinely misquoted singer Edie Brickell, stating that philosophy was the smile on a dog.  Actually, in her hit song, What I Am, Edie croons that religion is the smile on a dog…philosophy is talk on a cereal box.  But let’s not split hairs – the real point is…what’s the point??  Right?  Why study a bunch of ideas written before they had twitter or even the internet?  Well, good question.  My interest in philosophy predates …