Blog by Wendy Yarno for Yoga Blessings
All of my adult life I have been active with one form of exercise or another including aerobics (which I taught for over ten years), weight training, Pilates, running, swimming, and horseback riding. Upon retiring after 26 years of a successful, but very stressful, corporate career, I found yoga. My very first serious yoga class was an ashtanga Primary Series class taught in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was very intimidating and challenging, but also called to me. For two years, I attended classes at this studio and practiced Primary Series five to six days a week. In 2009, I completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher training, which deepened my understanding of yoga as more than just a practice, but as an entire philosophy and guide to how to live your life. Since that time, yoga has been a constant touchstone in my life.
How Yoga Blessings Came to Be
The idea for Yoga Blessings was “hatched” in 2014. Upon moving to Sedona in 2012, I had noticed how there was no store for yogi’s, despite the large number of yoga instructors and studios in Sedona, the annual yoga festival, and the thousands of locals and visitors who practice yoga in Sedona! I thought a store dedicated to the yoga enthusiast could fulfill a need. However, the timing wasn’t right in 2014, so I put the idea on the shelf waiting for a better time. When Sedona Hot Yoga needed a new space, the idea of co-locating the hot yoga studio with a retail yoga store seemed like a natural fit and Yoga Blessings became a reality!
I feel truly blessed to have yoga as part of my life and hope you do also. Please come visit us at Yoga Blessings– the store created just for you, the yoga lover and enthusiast!
Blessings and Namaste,
Wendy Yarno
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