This week’s installment of Yoga Living Project concludes the theme of self care. Read below for a fresh perspective of self-reliance with the heart from cambio teacher Erika de la Cuadra. What fresh perspectives would you like to share with our blog-sphere? Email Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your ideas and feedback!

This week's installment of the Yoga Living Project comes from Jessica Diosdado, Cambio YTT graduate and subsitute teacher gallore.  Read this heartfelt piece is below to gain an opportunity to check in, empower yourself and grow with intention.

Catch Jessica on the schedule as she subs for other Cambio teachers, and offers one of a kind workshops. 

Yoga Living Project is proud to welcome back Cambio Teacher Caleb Hall in this deeply heartfelt reflection of the intersection on body image and yoga. Read below to hear one person's journey.  If youo have your own story to share, we'd love to hear - email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You can join Caleb for Vinyasa Flow at Cambio Pikes Peak on Sundays 10:30a and Mondays 7:15p

The niyamas are the sustaining practices for any seeker on the spiritual path. In this discussion we will cover how they relate to our modern life and some practical perspective and application to make sure that as we navigate throughout our life we do not lose ourselves in the hustle and bustle.

Austin is back and this time he's working us toward the crux of self-care by creating an understanding around the qualities that create suffering in the human condition. This inspiring installment of Yoga Living Project is completed with a quick field guide to help you navigate these concepts in your daily life to keep your yoga-off-the-mat strong and rooted in compassion.  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your feedback and/or content for future posts!

We are about to head into a new theme, to some the most daunting theme of the year: Love. And, as first time Guest Author (and current YTT student) Cami Gage reflects: love starts at home, with yourself. Get a head start on March by giving this installment of the Yoga Living Project a read and let us know your thoughts or future blog ideas by emailing Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Cambio Senior Teacher and Extended YTT co-coordinator Anna Mack is here to to help soothe holiday stress with yogic breathing technique. Read below for easy-to-follow instructions to help you ground down, get focused, and enjoy this winter season. Eager to share your own tips? Email Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be featured on the Yoga Living Project, or with any feedback.

Cambio Senior Teacher (and all the other things extraordinaire) Kristen Mack returns to Yoga Living Project to bring home this month's theme of Gratitude. With a fresh perspective for the urban yogi and accessible advice on how to approach this substantial practice in the modern age, Kristen explores the powerful concept of turning obstacles into gifts to help you along the way. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic, as well as future ideas for the blog, so email Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your content!

Few people give themselves the chance to truly unwind from the residual stress of life to seek out what the heart needs be it rest, adventure, reflection, healing...Tulum is a magical place in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico that offers a panacea of paradise and true retreat. Lora and Austin talk why retreats of this nature are so transformational and want to extend the invite to anyone who thinks that they may need a breather in a profoundly beautiful place with, great food and yoga. Visit us at www.handstotheheart.com to learn more!

We just couldn't get enough of the Subtle Body exploration last month, so Kristen Mack returns for this week's installment of the Yoga Living Project to discuss nadis (energetic channels). Read below for Kristen's insights and suggested practices! As always, if you're interested in contributing material for the blog, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Cambio Teacher and YTT grad Caleb Hall is back for this week's installation of the Yoga Living Project. This week he's here to share about aparigraha in ways that have impacted his life that may sound familiar to you. Read below and to hear more of Caleb's thoughts, catch his classes Sunday 10:30a and Monday 7:15p, both at Cambio Pikes Peak.

If you have stories of your own to share, we'd love to open it up to our audience! If you're part of Cambio, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your work to be featured.

As always with Alyssa Corley's contributions to the Yoga Living Project, there isn't much we can put into words to preface it, it's just one you need to read, to let sit on your skin and seep into your heart. If you're looking to challenge the barriers of your love and explore our current theme from one of our teachers who notoriously lives from her heart, this week's contribution has got you covered!

Can you contribute? Why yes you can! We want to hear any and all things from your perspective on life, learning, love and yoga. Send Austin a note with your ideas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This week's installment of Yoga Living Project comes from Erika de la Cuadra wrapping up this month’s theme on love. Use the ideas below on the quest of getting your heart right by asking questions and doing the hard work of loving yourself first. Do you have something to contribute? We are also always looking for guest writers so please reach out at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you’re interested!

Cambio Instructor Alyssa Corley is returning with a bare look of bringing yoga off the mat. As cambio owner, Amber Richman reminds us, "Yoga is the art of personal responsibility," and this short, poignant post is the epitome of this sentiment and sure to inspire all. If you're looking to share a snapshot of your journey with our readers, please reach out to Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Guest author and cambio teacher Shelby Palmeri returns to offer up her experience of grief and its relationship with her yoga practice. There is a lot to be taken from this week's installment of Yoga Living Project so read below to see what resonates with you. If you have an experience you'd like to share, reach out to Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to contribute to the blog space!

In this week's installment of Yoga Living Project, Austin Richman returns to wrap up this month's theme of Community. The role of sangha (community) has the potential to be a powerful teacher and Austin explores some of the deeper forms of stewardship within that. Read below to gain insight into how your community can strengthen and find opportunities to serve those around you. As always, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have content you'd like to contribute for Yoga Living Project! 

In this week's installment of Yoga Living Project, we kick off June's theme of Subtle Body with some reflection of the Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) from Erika de la Cuadra. Read about her experience and let us know yours! If you have something you'd like to contribute, contact Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Welcome back guest author and cambio. Yoga teacher, Halle Thornton, with a post that highlights self-care in her life with beautiful authenticity. Know that this share references eating disorders so please read at your own discretion. If you have a story you'd like to share, please do so by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

As the impact of the coronavirus outbreak started to become apparent in mid-March, Spiritwell cancelled a show at Ohana Kava Bar and decided to take to live-streaming in hopes to get people on their feet, out of their heads, and into their hearts. The musical project, led by Austin Richman, brings original, heartfelt & diverse music and in this session along Erika de la Cuadra and Rebecca Burdick Meyer, offers music to dance to and chant to. Shout out to Tony Paul who we dearly missed that night on the drums! Please enjoy!

Can you contribute to the Yoga Living Project? Yes, please! Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your ideas or content.

Kristen Mack tackles Sthira-sukham asanam in this week's installment of Yoga Living Project. Read below to learn more about this approach to asana (the yoga poses) derived from the Yoga Sutras of Pantajali. Do you have a topic you’d like to cover? Email Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!

This is my practice. These poignant words come from recent cambio YTT graduate and first time Yoga Living Project guest author, Alyssa Corley. If you're looking to go on a journey through expression and artistry, read some of Alyssa's experience of the human condition below and we dare you not to get instantly pulled in. Share your interpretation of all things life, love and yoga by reaching out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This week’s installment of Yoga Living Project is brought to you by Austin Richman, whose unique perspective of how community can deepen your yoga practice is sure to influence your intentions and expectations when walking into the studio. Read below for insights on how to cross the threshold from vulnerability into intimacy, and how to hold that door open for others. What unique perspectives do view the world with? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your thoughts for future Yoga Living Project installments.

Do you know have anxiety? You're not alone. Welcome back to the Yoga Living Project cambio. teacher Shelby Palmeri for this week's personal look at yoga as self-care in the face of anxiety, even when if feels like the quick fix you might be looking for is lost on you. Send us your thoughts and future blog ideas to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your content to be featured.

A talk with Jason Smiley about PTSD, music, yoga, tattoos and life.  Editor's note:
When I asked if there is a cure for PTSD and Jason said no and would like to correct that.  "There is no single thing that cures it.  I gave an answer about a pie and how one should investigate all the different therapies.  Although one never gets rid of the actual trauma, technically you can get rid of the stress disorder.  I think I was also answering from the perspective of a patient in the VA health care system, where it is unlikely that you will get rid of either.  Anyway through various modalities of therapy it is technically possible to rid oneself on the stress disorder, not the actual traumatic event.  That part never goes away."

In this epsiode of Yoga Living Project I chat with Suzanne Mariska Bishop about the meaning, history, purpose, practice, and benefits of Yoga Nidra. For more about the music you heard in this podcast or any of the Yoga Living Project Podcasts check out the music of Spiritwell at www.spiritwellmusic.com

This week's installment of Yoga Living project is brought to you by Suzanne Mariska, as she shares poignant yet graceful thoughts on a yoga practice in the midst of the pains of life. If this stirs something in your heart and inspires you to contribute, email Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This week guest writer and Cambio instructor Renee Nicole Rudolph shares her words on our recent visit from one of our favorite yoga teachers.

On Shanti Shanti's Cold Depression Workshop from Friday, July 15

On Friday, I attended the Overcoming Cold Depression: Penetrate the Silence of the Soul Workshop, presented by Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa and hosted at Cambio Yoga and what an honor it was. For years I suffered from cold depression. I was tired, angry, frustrated, and the level of my anxiety was indescribable. Sure, I knew I was probably depressed and sure, I really thought anxiety was to be expected--better get used to it I often told myself.

This week's installment of Yoga Living Project is a Yoga Nidra led by Cambio senior teacher and Coordinator of the 200 hour Intensive Yoga Tecaher Training Kristen Mack (not to mention all the other things she does around here as well, too many to list!). Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that is at one time one of the simplest forms of meditaion as it is very accessible to anyone becasue it requires you make the body as comfortable as possible and if you fall asleep there is no penalty plus it is great for any one having trouble with sleep, fatigue, stress, and has been shown to also benefit peolple with other mental and or emotional difficulties. Please enjoy and as always let us know what you think, please share with your friends, and finally if you have any inclination toward contributing writing or any other media to the Yoga Living Project please don't hesitate to reach out to Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In this week's installment we continue on with the exploration of "What is Yoga?", this time with less philosophy and more day-to-day insights of how it might show up in your life as cambio. Yoga teacher Erika de la Cuadra shares recent experiences as well as some homework to reflect on how you can make the most of your practice and strive for excellence. But now, we want to hear from you! Send your experiences into Austin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be feautured on the blog and connect with our Yoga Living Project community.