Beginners
What should a beginner of yoga learn first?
Welcome Beginners! At the point when you're pristine to yoga, it can feel scaring and be challenging to know precisely where and how to get everything rolling. Our Yoga for Fledglings......
7 Beginner Yoga Poses to Get You Through Your First Class
On the off chance that you're a yoga beginner, it's totally commonplace to feel threatened by the fanatic yogis who get ready for class with handstands. Indeed, handstands. However, recall,......
We Got You: Practices to Support Mental Health
In honor of World Mental Health Day, we curated a collection of practices that you can turn to when you need just a little support for your precious self.We tapped......
Danielle LaPorte: Brand New Talk on WLTV
“Nothing leaves us until we thoroughly Love it.” Don’t believe it? Just tune in to the self-ruling new WLTV talk we released from Danielle LaPorte, and you’ll learn why. This......
Winter Solstice: Honoring the Return of Light
As the hectic holiday season arrives, you may want to consider taking a moment to honor the winter solstice this year for a peace-infused, spiritual reset to rekindle the light......
No Secret, Just Space: How Yoga Saved Danni Pompluns Life
Danni Pomplun became a yoga teacher by accident. When a teacher didn’t come to matriculation one day, he hopped out of savasana and into the front of the class. The......
Winter Solstice: Honouring the Return of Light
As the hectic holiday season arrives, you may want to consider taking a moment to honor the winter solstice this year for a peace-infused, spiritual reset to rekindle the light......
After My Mum Died, Yoga Saved My Life
The word-for-word stage eludes me, but the imprint this night had on me will be forever seared in my memory.It is late December, 2009, and I am 16 years old,......
Get to Know Patanjali: A Founding Father of Yoga
When we speak well-nigh yoga practice, the foundation we unchangingly come when to is Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, a compilation of 196 unclear verses that outline the eight limbs of yoga.The......
Looking at True Cost of Sustainable Clothing with Starseeds
As consumers, we’re faced with making decisions well-nigh what to purchase every day. We weigh our needs, upkeep and upstanding views as we squint to strike a wastefulness between sustainability......
Returning to the Mat: How Yoga Heals
There’s a Rumi poem that begins: “Out vastitude ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” I’m pretty sure that, there in that field you......
The Best Adaptogens for Holiday Travel
It’s finally here—the day you get to leave work early and throne to the airport for that long-awaited trip to Bali (or if you’re like me, your parents’ house......
The Power of Ritual: Soul Care as Nectar for the Times
Throughout history, the power of ritual has been integral to both warmed-over and modern civilizations. From upper holidays to vision quests, tea ceremonies, moon gatherings, honoring the wheel of the......
You Arent Tripping: Mushrooms Are Everywhere Right Now
Why mushrooms are magnificentIf you’ve been seeing mushrooms everywhere lately, you’re not imagining things. Mushrooms are having a major moment right now in the wellness world with all the health......
How To Overcome Meditation Blocks
We’ve all heard the wondrous benefits of meditation. Sitting with ourself sounds like the easiest thing in the world – and yet for most people it’s the hardest! Even with......
American Detox: Waking Up
The pursuit is an well-timed excerpt from Kerri Kelly’s American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal.If you have come for a quick fix, I’m wrung......
Queer Dharma: Social Justice and Equanimity
Equanimity, Upekkha, in Pali, is a warm visa of reality as it is, rather than how we might like it to be. Rather than aversion, attachment, or indifference, there is......
Yoga you can do when you cant do anything else
Horse hugs are always healing. So… that happened. My entire family got COVID. I’m very grateful to report that we have recovered without complications, but there were a lot of......
Cowgirl Commentary: 2020
Still doing dancer during rocky times… I’ve had this blog post brewing for awhile, but then things keep happening. This year just keeps on coming. 2020 has been hard to sit with......
Safe & Found 2020 Yoga Retreat Guidelines
We’re thrilled that Montana re-opened for tourism June 1. We’ve been busy rebooking cowgirl yoginis from canceled retreats, and adding newcomers too. We are committed to keeping everyone safe and......
Practicing Yoga When You Dont Feel Like Yoga
Guest blog by Retreat Leader Caitlin Something I’ve been hearing a lot over the past few months is how people have lost their yoga practice a little (or a lot). They say......
Beginners Guide: How to Talk to Someone With Anxiety
Big Sky Yoga Retreats has always been focused on health. But Margaret and team don’t just care about physical health. Anyone who has been on a retreat has benefitted mind,......
Trust & Horse Play
A guest post by Summer, one of our Cowgirl Yoga Ranch Hands! She’ll be facilitating a new horse activity on our CY retreats, called “Horse Play”. Trust. Trust is something you earn.......
The Beginning of Better
This spring hasn’t gone the way anyone would like it to — literally anyone. If you’re still on the anxiety rollercoaster, know that you’re not alone. Part of surviving the current......
Better Mantras for Better Days
Let’s skip all the disclaimers about how some people have it worse right now — way worse — in one way or the other. It’s true, but for those of......
Kindly Managing Anxiety & Freakout Moments With Yoga
I’ve known all along that yoga is the answer to almost every problem. I’ve been doing it long enough to have tested that theory over and over. I’m sure non-yogis......
Winter and Whats Ahead
Skywalker and I playing in the snow! I love winter. There, I said it. Yeah, I know…it can feel old right about now. But like every season, it has its......
Why you should come with us to Italy
Ciao bellas! While you’re soaking up spring, we’ve come up with some really compelling reasons you should join us in Italy this fall. Join the amazing Caitlin and I on......
Tuscany Made Semplice: Dos and Donts
Italy the way it was meant to be experienced: serenely, healthily, together. Guest Post by Caitlin Kelly, Yoga Instructor & Lifelong Italy Admirer As women, we’re notoriously good at taking care of......
Important Lessons from Italians, #1: Setting the Table
Yoga with a view: San Gimignano We recently finished our 2019 yoga retreat season with our Yoga & Vineyard Tuscany trip. Yeah I know, you missed it. It was fabulous, even......