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A Thai friend of mine recommended I go to an island called Koh Tao well-known for scuba diving and for being less well-known than its famous sisters, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. I wasn’t planning on going there – in fact, I’d never even heard of it – but when I was told Koh Tao also had a strong yoga community, I decided to make the trek out there. The ferry from Koh Samui takes you first to Koh Phangan (famous for the “full moon parties”), and from…
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Once I regained the ability to walk after several Vikasa yoga classes, I decided to catch a Muay Thai boxing match – it is Thailand’s national sport, after all! Muay Thai is often referred to as “the art of eight limbs” since fighters use elbows, shins, knees, and feet as opposed to using only two points of contact (boxing) or four (kickboxing). This is eight points of contact too many for me so I was happy to observe from the sidelines. I went down to the Phetch Buncha…
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While researching my first location to feature for Global Fusion Yoga, I read a lot about this new style of yoga which only recently emerged on the island of Koh Samui in southern Thailand. ‘A local style found only on this island? What a perfect way to kick off Global Fusion Yoga’, I thought. Little did I know that my five month journey would begin with some of the toughest yoga I’d ever done. After my first class with Kosta, the Russian yogi who created the Vikasa style,…
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Everyone always says to give your work/studies/personal projects 100% – what about 104%? (My apologies to all you rational mathematics hard-liners out there whose minds just exploded). And that’s just what my Kickstarter reached upon completion – 104% of funding with 53 backers! I was blown away by the enthusiasm of family, friends, co-workers, fellow yogis, even strangers. If someone couldn’t offer financial support, they shared my project on Facebook, emails, Twitter, posters in local yoga studios. And that’s what means the most to me; this project is…
