Do you have an expired Passport to Prana card?
Renew your card between May 1, 2012 and June 30, 2012 and be entered to win a 1 MONTH PASS at your favorite participating studio!
To renew, simply log into your account at www.passporttoprana.com and click on the “RENEW CARD” tab.
If you have misplaced or no longer have your card, purchase a new card and email info@passporttoprana.com about the renewal contest and you will be entered in to win.
**UPDATE** This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone for entering, and congratulations to Adrienne Summers for winning a beautiful Libre Tea Glass!
Libre, from Gibsons, BC, is an eco-friendly company committed to sustainable people and planet practices. They are the creators the portable ‘on-the-go’ loose leaf tea glass for all to enjoy and relax with – anywhere, anytime.
“Libre (lee-brah). The state of being free. Letting go, bringing ones mind and body to a place of rest and free from restraint. Tea is symbolic of an ancient ritual celebrating the secular as sacred. It is a space to take a breath, reconnect with oneself and the world. It is a time to stop to enjoy life, people and the planet and remembering the joys that life has to offer.”
The Libre Loose Leaf Tea Glass collection comes in three sizes: the 9oz Original, 14 oz Large and 10 oz Mug. Each beverage holder is a thermal bottle with a health-conscious glass interior for fresh tasting beverages and a tough polycarbonate exterior for portable durability. Its easy to clean stainless steel removable filter is surrounded by twist off BPA-free lid and drinking lip.
Just add hot water (or cold) along with your favourite loose leaf tea, watch your drink steep, and take leaf-free sips thanks to its efficient strainer screen. It’s is the perfect leak resistant thermal travel container (keeps tea warm yet cool to touch) to take to yoga class – its compact size fits easily in hand, purse, bike or car cup holders, and makes a healthy post-yoga class rehydrator.
This handy to-go bottle can be used two ways to brew and travel with loose leaf tea: Tea in the tea glass for longer-brewing herbal teas or tea on top of the twist off filter for black and shorter-brewing time teas. Here is a quick video on using the Libre Loose Leaf Tea Glass that shows how simple and easy it is to achieve a great cup of tea:
How to enter the Libre Tea Contest:
1. “Like” Vancouver Yoga Review and Libre Tea on Facebook.
2. “Follow” @VanYogaReview and @LibreTea on Twitter.
3. Leave a comment below when you have completed the above!
FYI: Liking this specific post on Facebook and sharing the link on your Facebook and Twitter accounts will add your name three extra times into the draw. Contest ends October 31st at 11:59pm. Good luck!
Our friends at I Heart Wellness (Vancouver ladies who ‘bring the glam to healthy’) are currently offering a chance to win a $250 gift card to lululemon athletica!
Yes, you heard correctly, $250 to spend at Lululemon to purchase more yoga pants, perhaps a new mat, or whatever your heart desires! How do you enter this contest? Visit their Vancouver-based health and wellness website here for all the details.
Calling on all yogis! Last month I posted a “Yoga Teaser” on a national event, linking up yoga communities for a global cause. Well, the details are in!
The Ladybird Animal Sanctuary (LAS), an animal rescue group made up of three Canadian singer/writers (Melissa McClelland, Janine Stoll and Lisa Winn) are on a mission, to bring much needed awareness and support to our furry friends.
The LAS sole purpose is to help as many dogs, cats and other domesticated animals in need, and in celebration of the joy of yoga and the beautiful relationship we share with our pets, the LAS is looking YOU to submit a Pet + Pose Photo for their 2012 calendar.
Here is the challenge:
Take your best pic of YOU and YOUR Pet (or your neighbors) – we want to see a beloved pet in the photo with you. The more creative the better, they are looking for anything fun, playful, beautiful, poignant, peaceful… you name it. Anything that expresses your wonderful relationship to your yoga practice & your best furry pal.
The LAS will choose 12 winners from across Canada who will be featured in our 2012 calendar, which will be sold in yoga studios throughout our country. The Grand Prize winner will get the cover photo and all winners will receive a gift pack with yoga and pet related goodies. Alongside your photo will also be a short description of you, your photographer and your animal. The best part of this whole project is that all proceeds from the sales of the calendar will go to helping animals in need.
To enter, please send the following to ladybirdanimalsanctuary@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2011.
So Get Your Best Downdog, Updog, Cat Pose or Pigeon Asana On!
Check out thier facebook page for more details and connect with the Song Birds behind this great cause!
Ladybird Animal Sanctuary Pet + POse Yoga Photo Challenge: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218722811484946&ref=ts!
Namaste & Good Luck!
HOT OFF THE PRESS: An opportunity for yoga teachers and students to get involved in something revolutionary AND play with their pets?! You bet!
Three songbirds of renowned talent and compassion; Melissa McClelland, Janine Stoll and Lisa Winn founded Ladybird Animal Sanctuary, a multi-tiered safe haven for abandoned animals, a means of advocating for our furry friends, and a call to action in our communities Canada wide to help reduce the extraordinary number of cats and dogs euthanized each year.
Social Change meets Yoga once again; and Ladybird Sanctuary is pioneering a great marriage of sorts, by combining our devotion to Yoga and the devotion to our beloved pets to help animals everywhere!
Leveraging their talent as musicians, songwriters and singers; they have co-created the Yoga Calendar 2012 project; which is generating a huge blissful buzz amongst Canada’s Yoga community!
Ladybird is currently calling for submissions across Canada; photos that capture and convey the playful, poignant, relationships we have with our pets and our yoga practice. Take a photo of your best downward or upward facing dog, cats flow, pigeon pose or any other pose displaying you and your lovely pet and you could win a spot in their 2012 calendar and be featured on their website!
Proceeds from the 2012 Yoga Calendar will go towards a safe haven/ rescue adoption space for animals to help take the load off local shelters bursting at the seams, as well as therapeutic programs for animals, community outreach programs and workshops on important topics; such as spaying and neutering your pet.
If you don’t have a pet, but advocate for the protection of our furry friends you can still take part! Full spectrum of contest guidelines can be found by visiting their website or Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ladybirdanimalsanctuary or by simply emailing ladybirdanimalsanctuary@gmail.com on how to get involved!
What a great way to combine Yoga, your beloved furball and social change for the betterment of all creatures big and small!
Sources:
Ladybirds Animal Sanctuary: http://ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/
Melissa McClelland:http://www.melissamcclelland.com/
smokefreewisconsin.blogspot.com
“Oh no, there is no way I can do that,” I respond to my best friend Brenna, the yoga teacher, when she asks me to do Semperviva’s Forty Day Challenge with her.
She looks at me calmly and replies, “why not?”.
The excuses flowed faster than a Vinyasa Power Flow class. “Well, I’m taking that night class and I have lots of homework. My weekends are tied up enough as it is. I won’t have time to cook dinners. My body can’t handle it – you know, I’ve had that sore hip for months. I don’t have a car anymore. I’m trying to find a new job right now. And I’m not good enough at yoga to do it that much.”
“Ok then,” she says unbothered, “I’m going to do it.”
In reality, if anyone doesn’t have time to do this yoga challenge, it’s Brenna with her schedule of volunteering, yoga teaching and training, overtime working, and wedding planning to name a few. Her question of “why not?” stuck with me the whole rest of the night. It’s called a challenge for a reason.
But why forty days? I asked. It seemed like an eternity. Semperviva’s website (www.semperviva.com) states, Yogic science confirms that it takes 40 days to fully develop a new life-promoting habit or to drop a current destructive habit. Knowing full well that I could use something to break the repetitive question to myself: “What am I doing with my life?” I chose to try and sustain my mind from all the foreseen opportunities within my future and focus more on the now. Something I do well temporarily, but making it last is a recurring problem.
I started off strong. The first week of March 13-20, with momentum and positivity, I counted every class with pride. A few friends and I were in it together and created a routine support network.
Slowly after week 2, fourteen straight days of yoga, I began to feel the benefits of practicing every day, but these weren’t felt without pain. Strong, rooted stiffness which I took as good pain, but pain nonetheless.
To be continued…
Our My Yoga Online one-year membership contest officially closed on Saturday, April 9th. Now, it is time to announce the lucky randomly drawn winner. The recipient of this fantastic yoga & wellness video subscription is…drumroll…
Alison M Scott
Congrats Alison! If you could DM your email address to me on twitter @VanYogaReview, My Yoga Online will set you up with your membership details, then you can get started exploring everything MYO has to offer.
We had so many local Vancouverites and international participants – thanks to everyone for entering!
A few weeks ago we posted about the amazing My Yoga Online website offering exceptional yoga, health and wellness videos. Now, My Yoga Online are offering our lucky readers a chance to win a one-year membership to their site!
How to enter the My Yoga Online contest:
1. Post a comment below.
2. Retweet this post on Twitter.
3. “Like” this post on Facebook, and “Like” our Vancouver Yoga Review Facebook page.
3. If you comment AND Tweet AND like on Facebook, your name will be entered three times into the draw to increase your chances of winning!
Contest ends April 9th at 12:00pm. Good luck 🙂
Our Passport To Prana contest has closed and we are now ready to announce the 3 lucky winners!
Congratulations to our winners!
Henry, Debbie and Colleen, please email your mailing addresses to info@vancouveryogareview.com and your cards will be sent to you ASAP!
Once you have received your card in the mail, please refer to the website http://passporttoprana.com/home.php for participating studios in and around Vancouver. Also, your card will need to be activated on their website before you attend your first class. Your card will expire on July 31, 2011.
For those interested, there’s still time to purchase a Passport To Prana card on their website ($30).
Thanks to everyone for entering and keep posted on our site for more yoga contests in the future 🙂
We blogged about the awesome 
card last week. Now, Passport to Prana is offering our readers the chance to win 1 of 3 Passport to Prana cards!
How to enter the Passport To Prana contest:
1. Post a comment below.
2. Or, Tweet following on Twitter: @VanYogaReview @PassportToPrana contest: http://bit.ly/baKjGu
3. If you comment AND Tweet, your name will be entered twice into the draw!
Contest ends September 30th at 12:00pm.
Good luck everyone!
The Vancouver Yoga Conference will be taking place September 30 – October 3, 2010. And the Show will be from October 1 – 3, 2010!
SHOW FLOOR ADMISSION IS $15 FOR ALL 3 DAYS AND INCLUDES:
YOGA CONFERENCE:
SHOW HOURS:
Friday October 1, 2010 ~ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday October 2, 2010 ~ 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday October 3, 2010 ~ 10:00 am – 6 :00 pm
Check out our review from last year’s 2009 Yoga Conference in Vancouver.
LOCATION:
Vancouver Convention Centre – Hall A (Under the Sails)
How to enter to win a FREE SHOW FLOOR ADMISSION PASS:
1. Tweet this: @VanYogaReview Win Free Pass to #Vancouver Yoga Show http://bit.ly/aA4Lae
2. Post comment below (include email address so we can contact the winner).
3. If you tweet and post a comment below, your name will be entered twice into the draw.
Contest ends on Saturday, September 18th at 11:59pm.
Good luck!
For more info about the 2010 Vancouver Yoga Conference & Show, visit their website here.
