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Welcome from Stacey
Your heart is pounding, your face is a shade of red you hardly recognize, your hair is plastered to your face. You look at your yoga instructor, mumbling under your breath "this can't be yoga". You barely remember your name, your eyes are bloodshot, and the pregnant woman to your right is making you look bad. You're receiving a serious whooping and is that sweat or tears? And then it hits you....you've found a new home.
Welcome to Bikram Yoga North Texas. Y'all come join us!
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Online testimonials
Our brand spankin' new website now includes a page where you can add your own story or testimonial about the power of Bikram yoga. Let's face it, we all come to the room in various stages of discontent and angst (whether we realize it at the time or not) but when the yoga transforms us, we want to tell the world about how we're now diggin' our existance (without the use of mind altering substances). We want to hear those stories! Just go to the "community" section and click on "share your success story" in the drop down menu. Follow the easy directions and you, too, can offer your take on how you got to the hot room and what it's done for your mind, body and life since then. Your input is a valuable part of what makes Bikram Yoga North Texas so great so please, tell us all about yourself.
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Hey there loyal yogis!
It's the dog days of summer but North Texas bikram yogis are cool and comfortable because intense heat ain't nothin' but a thang to them every day in the yoga room!
In this edition of our Bikram Yoga North Texas Twister, you'll read about our Superwoman Lori Beebe who is a recovering gym rat and current convert to Bikram yoga. She uses the hot room to stay happy and keep the weight off. Keep crankin' out the awesome "Standing Head to Knee," Lori!
July has also brought us our brand spankin' new yoga centered plant-based cooking classes in the Arlington Zen kitchen. Our second class is Saturday, July 16, and from the looks of the smiling faces and full bellies in both studios, there are quite a few yogis who want to take charge of their health and diet. We're extremely excited to have Kathryn Lorusso, resident chef/yogini and owner of VegOut Catering with us in the kitchen to rock some seriously good vegan recipes. Check out the current class on the BYNT website and join us!
Our four new teachers continue to amaze us: Brad, Jennifer and Ife have started teaching classes and Elizabeth will start next week. We thank you, as always, for the positive, glowing comments about them. We're super proud to have them in the BYNT family.
Check out the upcoming retirement party details for Sherri Davis at Lake Grapevine, the "early bird" 5:30 a.m. class at the Arlington studio and last but not least, the hilarious video at the bottom. For anyone who's ever scoped out a parking place at Whole Foods, this one's for YOU!
Happy reading, enjoy!
Stacey
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Student of the month: Lori Beebe Som
 Lori Beebe Som never guessed that the Groupon she purchased back in November, 2010, for an unlimited month of Bikram yoga would change her life...but it did. She walked into the hot room with a group of girlfriends who never went back. Lori did and her life hasn't been the same since.
"I've tried everything to maintain my weight from step-aerobics, water aerobics, toning, salsa, boot camp, spin, and kickboxing classes, to working out on a treadmill, elliptical, and the Stairmaster. Bikram yoga has proven to be the most challenging yet most rewarding of any exercise I've ever tried, " she says.
Beebe Som suffered from sciatica for years. She tried foot orthotics, chiropractors and acupuncture but nothing took the pain away. After she started practicing Bikram yoga, the pain intensified which wasn't what she expected. Beebe Som didn't give up, though, and began to trust the healing process. Within 45 days, she noticed a huge lessening of the pain and she hasn't had any issues since. She has also noticed some mental benefits.
"I feel calmer and more relaxed. I have learned to breathe through the stress in my life. I can center myself quicker not overreact as quickly to stressful situations," she said.
Beebe Som says her best practice is a 6-day-a-week frequency and if she goes less than that, "grumpiness" takes over.
"I haven't signed up for the 60-day challenge yet but that is a goal I intend on accomplishing before the year end," Beebe Som said.
Even though she has fully embraced the 26 postures and two savasanas, Lori still has trouble with locking her knee because her aerobics instructors from years past told her to NEVER lock the knee.
"I'm still a work in progress," she said. "Eight months into my Bikram practice, and I still struggle with 'lock the knee, lock the knee, LOCK THE KNEE.' I'm learning to let the mind go, listen to the instructions and your body will soon follow."
Welcome to the Bikram family, Lori!
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5:30 a.m. class starts July 25th in Arlington!
For you early birds who live south of the Grapevine area, the Arlington studio will begin a 5:30 a.m. class starting July 25 so pack your yoga bag the night before, set your alarm and join the group who gets their work out done BEFORE the work day begins. We even have a "no cook" overnight oat cereal recipe you can pack in your bag to eat afterward on your way to the office. (Kathryn Lorusso can hook you up with that.) You're on your own for the mug of coffee!
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Senior Bikram yoga teacher Davis retires; party planned
Our favorite senior Bikram yoga teacher has retired and we want to party down properly in her name! Please join us July 31 at Lake Grapevine for a summer retirement bash for Sherri Davis and bring your family members. We'll have a pie eating contest, DJ, yummy food and much more but let us know you're coming by signing up at either front desk in Grapevine or Arlington.
Below is Sherri (Mimi) Davis' farewell letter to us all:
Goodbye yogis and yoginis at Bikram Yoga North Texas! After 9 years of teaching at the Grapevine studio, I am hanging up my yoga shorts (actually I'll be throwing most of the stinky things away!) Poppie and I have moved to Possum Kingdom lake and the drive is too far for me to commute back and forth. After living in large metropolitan cities my whole life, I would have never dreamed I would have been so content in the country.
But whether I am doing a 60 day challenge, practicing 3-5 days a week, or driving 2 hours to take 2 classes a week, Bikram yoga is a part of me. Through my yoga practice, I have evolved from a pudgy, menopausal, 48 year old woman with low self esteem into a 61 year old grandmother of 4 who has the strength and confidence to tackle any task put in front of me. I can stand on the podium and remember the names of 50 students (even when Megan and Ashton bring their Dallas Cowboy cheerleader friends to class and they all look alike!) I can go down water slides with all 4 grandkids and mow my lawn in the heat of the day. I am content, strong, and very grateful for my life, and for Bikram yoga for transforming it.
The memories from working at BYG will last me a lifetime. Thank you, Stacey, for all your love and support over the years. I have seen just about anything you can imagine over the course of my journey, and with Stacey and the other teachers to share in these events, it has been a great experience.
It's so hard to put into words my thoughts at this emotional time. Just suffice it to say, the staff and students of BYG have filled my heart and life to overflowing. Even though I will miss all of you terribly, this is a special time for Terry and me. It is finally our time to do what we want, travel where we want, and spoil ourselves a little.
Keep practicing your yoga - it will help you age gracefully and graciously and keep your body so much younger so that you can enjoy your 'twilight' years. Thank you all for everything.
Come see us at the lake, but be prepared - You won't want to go home!!
Namaste,
Sherri (Mimi) Davis
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Kate & Stella's "Pranayama Pet Corner"
Many times, there is no one better in our world to teach us the power of breath than our fur children. They lay on their dog beds and kitty pillows with complete abandon and trust...breathing slowly and calmly while utter chaos erupts around them. Vacuum cleaners, dish washers, loud human children, blaring TV's and hail beating on the doors and windows matter not. Our pets know how to CHILLAX!
This month's honorary pet is Oreo (and his sidekick kitty friend, Sara. Sorry, Sara...we only have room for one pet photo but that doesn't mean you're not special, too.) Both belong to yogini Elizabeth Hilsabeck, who rescued them from two bad situations.
Sara arrived from the North Shore Animal League on the east coast and Oreo was abandoned in a parking lot in Waxahachie. Even though Elizabeth claims these fur children as her "true children," her somewhat new husband (of two years) has five grown human children so they have one big mixed medley of offspring.
"My pets are my children and in lots of ways, they've rescued me right back...from the doldroms, from loneliness and from laziness," says Elizabeth.
Thanks for joining our Bikram pet family, Oreo and Sara. We hear from your mom that you're mighty flexible!
(If you'd like to see your pet honored by Kate and Stella, please email a photo and quick explanation to info@bikramyoganorthtexas.com)
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"Hey! You need to turn your little Prius around and go out the way you came in, homey!" Sound familiar? Drinking a little too much Kombucha these days and stressing out in the Whole Foods parking lot? This video captures it all perfectly.
Enjoy!!
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Namaste,
Stacey Stier
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