HipHop Yoga!

Crazy successful night of HipHop Yoga!!! I love my job, I love my community!! Thank you Thank you!

Friday Fun!

Two times to have fun with me this Friday!!!

Every FRIDAY at Willow Creek Winery....a soothing flow in the vineyard followed by a glass of sangria. I hope to see you!!

This FRIDAY August 1st at Yoga Dog in Linwood....HIP HOP YOGA!!! Booty pop, hip hop and holla your way to pure bliss!!!!! This will be my last HipHop workshop of the season (except for August 15th down in north wildwood atItswell Yoga). Please reserve your spot by messaging Steve Mullen at YogaDog or messaging me! Class is 6-8pm and $30 <3 span="">

Midsummer Night

Golden Buddha Yoga ITALY RETREAT June 2014 ......

Midsummer Night...

The summer solstice, "Midsummer Night", is today and in honor of that shift we made hippie flower headdresses and homemade Epsom salts. This auspicious day is about checking in, taking inventory, and seeing what you need to "wash away"....

Here is what I have...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a truth speaker and a total inspiration. Anytime I need a slap upside the head, I open her book "Women Who Run with Wolves". Like most women, I STRUGGLE with my body image. Especially since I have broken my year long strict candida cleanse, I have put on a few lb's. I am nice and soft and round and...soft and round. Ha! All of the women on this retreat are true goddesses, and we all share a similar fight, that against the mind and ego telling us that we are less than, not enough, or too much. I read this passage from WWRWW and it really hit home for us all...

"The body is like an earth. It is a land into itself. It is as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, over mined, and shorn of its power as any landscape. The wilder woman will not be easily developed by redevelopment schemes. For her, the questions are not how to perform, but how to feel.

The hips, they are wide for a reason, inside them is a satiny ivory cradle for new life. A woman's hips are outriggers for the body above and below; they are portals, they are a lush cushion, the handholds for love, a place for children to hide behind. The legs, they are meant to take us, sometimes to propel us; they are the pulleys that help lift us, they are the 'anillo', the ring for encircling a lover. They cannot be too this or too that. They are what they are.

There is no "supposed to be" in bodies. The question is not size or shape or years of age, or even having two of everything. But the wild issue is, DOES THIS BODY FEEL, does it have right connection to pleasure, to heart, to soul, to the wild? Does it have happiness, joy? Can it in it's own way move, dance, jiggle, sway, thrust? Nothing else matters."

Can my body move, dance, jiggle, sway and thrust? NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.

After class we did a journaling exercise and wrote a poem based on one by Ntozake Shange. Shanges' goes...


HERE IS WHAT I HAVE...
POEMS
BIG THIGHS
LIL TITS
&

SO MUCH LOVE.


To write your own....

Line 1: "Here is what I have..."
Line 2: Insert noun (yoga, dances, knowledge, etc)
Line 3: one body part (that frustrates you)
Line 4: one body part (that you love)
Line 5: &
Line 6: blank
Line 7: "and so much <insert word>"


My poem was...

Here is what I have...
Yoga
Big ass
Huge smile
&

So much fucking joy.


Namaste beautiful people !!

Wine Tasting!!!

Our group of 14 took VITALONGA winery by storm yesterday! We had the BEST evening of wine tasting and then came home for a kickass dance party. Yoga this morning was painful for most the girls, but they did it!!! Yay for hangovers that let us know that we are alive and how important it is to take care of our bodies hahahaha !!!

Siena and Aperol Spritz!

Golden Buddha Yoga ITALY RETREAT June 2014....SIENA. 

Today our group of 14 split up and cruised the streets of Siena. We were on our own for lunch, so Cass, Sarah and myself stumbled into a side street restaurant and ordered ourselves a meat plate, a cheese plate, and some porcini mushroom risotto. We sipped on Aperol Spritzs which came with a "warm appetizer"....a soft chewy bread, rolled with delicious ham and fried. GAH. Heaven. 

Cailin Callahan

www.goldenbuddhayoga.com

GBY goes to SIENA!

Golden Buddha Yoga ITALY RETREAT June 2014....adventuring to Siena for the day!! 

Cailin Callahan

www.goldenbuddhayoga.com

Rolfing and Flying.

Rolfing is a crrraaaazy amazing form of bodywork, and thankfully Teah, the hostess for this retreat, is a rolfer! She's also powerful and amazing and an amazing acro yogi. So last night, after everyone had gone to sleep, we rolled out blankets in the kitchen and she "flew" me while "Rolfing" me. Apparently she made the discovery that by flying people it opens up certain parts of the body allowing for deeper access. All I gotta say is WOW and OW! Amazing.

Italia GBY...

Golden Buddha Yoga ITALY RETREAT June 2014....

Cailin Callahan

www.goldenbuddhayoga.com

Italy Retreat!!!

The Italy retreat is FULL SWING and FULL POWER!!!!

The Most Important Meal...

Fredrik educated us about the importance of a big breakfast yesterday, so I was delighted that my final meal with the Toremalm crew was brekky! Jarl (Petters father) put out the most epic spread of fresh goodies from the bakery (life-changing croissants, Danishes and perfectly.baked.bread) along with lobster salad, ham, cheese, butter, and foie gras. YUM.

Feasting with Friends.

Petter, Linn and I had a brief encounter in Indonesia several years ago-- only to bump into each other in Sri Lanka last year, and to continually connect through our parallel lives of travel, adventure, and surfing. We have mutual friends from around the world, and it's one of those love affairs that the Universe is setting in your lap. So it was only natural that we connected in their home country of Sweden. Petter, Linn and their dog Mali ("Malibu Rainbow" hahaha) met Fredrik and I at a surf break that was a few hours south of Varberg. It was like being reunited with dear old friends, not missing a beat! We surfed some choppy albeit fun waves for some time before packing it up and heading to Tokelrov (I think that's right...), which is a little seaside village where the couple grew up. Petters family owns a restaurant here that is *divine*. We lunched on a salmon tartare dish to start and then had a roasted fish, fennel, potato dish that was fucking amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Fredrik left us, headed back home and back to work, and left me in the hands of the Toremalm family. We walked around the tiny town, chatted over coffee, and walked to the Seacliff to watch the sunset. And the food adventures were to continue...Petter, his wonderful father Jarl, his baby sister Svea, Linn and I then dined up a most epic dinner!! We had filet over greens that had a bit of an Asian flair to it and it was to.die.for. But it didn't stop there, for of course there was the most perfect bottles of wine that were being poured as well. We told stories, sang songs, and laughed- and laughed- and laughed. I went to bed smiling and I woke up smiling. My visit to Sweden has been short, but incredibly sweet, and I am totally enchanted by the chic yet earthy little slice of the world. I cannot wait to come back!! And I especially cannot wait for my next meal with the Toremalms!

More SURF in Sunny Sweden!

Only here for 5 days, and two of them I got some surf!! Even better, I met up with my SUNSHINE STORIES friends Linn+Petter, and the four of us surfed and laughed and ate some really kickass food at Petters family's restaurant. Loving Sweden, will be sad to go but spur excited to be getting to ITALY!