Progressive Power Yoga is expanding!
First of all, I would like to apologize for not updating this blog in awhile. Although we are well into the New Year, I would like to wish you all a spectacular year filled with love and joy.
2007 looks to be a very promising year. After a rough bout of various illnesses, my family is thankfully healthy and happy. My boy Shane just had his first birthday and I’m just amazed at how the girls’ (Rowan and Carmen) personality comes through everyday. They continue to be the light of my life along with their mother.
There are many things I need to catch you up on, as well as many things that are on the horizon. First of all, I would like to thank Pop Branaman and Ray Monte for their talented work giving my studio in Studio City a magnificent facelift. It looks beautiful!
I would like to announce the opening of the first satellite Progressive Power Yoga Studio in Kansas City this coming April. I am thrilled to be partnering up with one of my favorite people, and devoted practitioner of Progressive Power Yoga, Gretchen Robinson. I am off to Kansas City in a week to work with the instructors at the new studio and will also appear on the popular morning show “Kansas City Live” while I am in town. The new Mark Blanchard’s Progressive Power Yoga Studio is going to introduce a surprisingly upbeat, heart-pounding form of yoga to the community there. I think that we will blow them away, and I intend to teach at the studio and lead weekend workshops there several times a year.
Our next remote studio will open later this year in San Francisco. There, I am partnering up with another one of my favorite yogis, Michelle Lotta.
I am ecstatic to be a part of the new Lifetime series, My Workout (powered by PodFitness), which began airing in January of this year. The show airs Monday-Friday at 7:30 AM EST/PST, with rotating trainers. My cool-down portions are on TV every Monday and Wednesday and I am very pleased to be a part of the My Workout/ PodFitness team.
Check out www.podfitness.com if you are not familiar with this new venture – it is a state-of-the-art fitness system that builds custom audio workouts based on a person’s individual fitness profile, and let’s you download them to your iPod or MP3 player. Late last year I was approached by them to become one of their “World Class Celebrity Trainers.”
Additionally, portions of my DVD series, The Sedona Experience will begin airing on Exercise TV next month. The most rewarding part about all of this is that I will now have a greater opportunity to introduce Progressive Power Yoga to so many new people across the United States and allow them to reap its vast benefits.
Speaking of celebrities, we were asked to participate this year in the annual “Distinctive Assets Everybody Wins” at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag. Who can better make use of yoga’s power to overcome stress and cultivate calmness than these busy celebrities? Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Mark Wahlberg, Penelope Cruz, Will Smith, and Meryl Streep might not have walked home this year with the golden statue, but they did get the ultimate gift of wellness from Progressive Power Yoga, which they will hopefully embrace for a lifetime. Each of the nominees received 2 private sessions with me, classes at my studios, and a set of my Sedona Experience DVD’s.
I continue to devote every Wednesday to teaching yoga at Colfax Elementary School, where my daughter Rowan is attending. I started this program last November and it has been tremendously well-received. I can’t tell you how many parents have approached me to tell me how wonderful and beneficial yoga has been for their kids. The children (grades K-5) improve on their yoga with every week and seem to have really blossomed through this practice. Nothing gives me more joy than to see young children such as these take an early start on embracing the practice of yoga. This introduction will lay a foundation for a lifetime of wellness and healthy living.
And lastly, I recently started a new relationship with the American Heart Association. Last month I gave a speech and demonstration to a group of patients suffering from heart problems at UCLA Medical Center and I will be working more with them in the coming months. I will help them learn to incorporate yoga breathing into their lives and also teach them the basics of Progressive Power Yoga so that they can begin to strengthen their whole being. More on that soon!
Namaste,
Mark Blanchard
2007 looks to be a very promising year. After a rough bout of various illnesses, my family is thankfully healthy and happy. My boy Shane just had his first birthday and I’m just amazed at how the girls’ (Rowan and Carmen) personality comes through everyday. They continue to be the light of my life along with their mother.
There are many things I need to catch you up on, as well as many things that are on the horizon. First of all, I would like to thank Pop Branaman and Ray Monte for their talented work giving my studio in Studio City a magnificent facelift. It looks beautiful!
I would like to announce the opening of the first satellite Progressive Power Yoga Studio in Kansas City this coming April. I am thrilled to be partnering up with one of my favorite people, and devoted practitioner of Progressive Power Yoga, Gretchen Robinson. I am off to Kansas City in a week to work with the instructors at the new studio and will also appear on the popular morning show “Kansas City Live” while I am in town. The new Mark Blanchard’s Progressive Power Yoga Studio is going to introduce a surprisingly upbeat, heart-pounding form of yoga to the community there. I think that we will blow them away, and I intend to teach at the studio and lead weekend workshops there several times a year.
Our next remote studio will open later this year in San Francisco. There, I am partnering up with another one of my favorite yogis, Michelle Lotta.
I am ecstatic to be a part of the new Lifetime series, My Workout (powered by PodFitness), which began airing in January of this year. The show airs Monday-Friday at 7:30 AM EST/PST, with rotating trainers. My cool-down portions are on TV every Monday and Wednesday and I am very pleased to be a part of the My Workout/ PodFitness team.
Check out www.podfitness.com if you are not familiar with this new venture – it is a state-of-the-art fitness system that builds custom audio workouts based on a person’s individual fitness profile, and let’s you download them to your iPod or MP3 player. Late last year I was approached by them to become one of their “World Class Celebrity Trainers.”
Additionally, portions of my DVD series, The Sedona Experience will begin airing on Exercise TV next month. The most rewarding part about all of this is that I will now have a greater opportunity to introduce Progressive Power Yoga to so many new people across the United States and allow them to reap its vast benefits.
Speaking of celebrities, we were asked to participate this year in the annual “Distinctive Assets Everybody Wins” at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag. Who can better make use of yoga’s power to overcome stress and cultivate calmness than these busy celebrities? Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Mark Wahlberg, Penelope Cruz, Will Smith, and Meryl Streep might not have walked home this year with the golden statue, but they did get the ultimate gift of wellness from Progressive Power Yoga, which they will hopefully embrace for a lifetime. Each of the nominees received 2 private sessions with me, classes at my studios, and a set of my Sedona Experience DVD’s.
I continue to devote every Wednesday to teaching yoga at Colfax Elementary School, where my daughter Rowan is attending. I started this program last November and it has been tremendously well-received. I can’t tell you how many parents have approached me to tell me how wonderful and beneficial yoga has been for their kids. The children (grades K-5) improve on their yoga with every week and seem to have really blossomed through this practice. Nothing gives me more joy than to see young children such as these take an early start on embracing the practice of yoga. This introduction will lay a foundation for a lifetime of wellness and healthy living.
And lastly, I recently started a new relationship with the American Heart Association. Last month I gave a speech and demonstration to a group of patients suffering from heart problems at UCLA Medical Center and I will be working more with them in the coming months. I will help them learn to incorporate yoga breathing into their lives and also teach them the basics of Progressive Power Yoga so that they can begin to strengthen their whole being. More on that soon!
Namaste,
Mark Blanchard
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