Glo Blog

By Jason Crandell If teaching yoga gets easier with experience, I’m still waiting. After more than 25 years of teaching, you’d think I’d have fewer questions by now. I don’t. I still wonder how to create yoga sequences that help students progress over time. Or how to adapt my teaching as my students—and my own practice—changes. How can I balance alignment, anatomy, accessibility, and creativity?

By Amy Rosoff Davis I’ve always been a go-getter. A multi-tasker. A seeker of things that spark joy. Between my careers and my kids, I take on too much. That’s just how I’m built. Nothing stops me. Turns out, the universe had other plans. And the only way to actually slow me down was to physically pull me down…literally. The first fall was at my daughter’s birthday party (ironically, last fall). We were rollerskating, and I tripped. As my knee hit the rink, I heard and felt a pop.

by Dr. Sara Ivanhoe What if You Could Bring the Studio Experience Into Your Home? Over the last 18 years of Glo’s history, we’ve watched yoga adapt to modern life. Classes got shorter. Schedules got busier. Attention became more fragmented. In response, Glo worked hard to make yoga more accessible for busy lives. But now, we’re seeing something different. Many of you are seeking longer classes.

by Annie Carpenter In today’s world, yoga has become deeply conflated with asana (the physical postures), and by association fitness. While yoga can increase strength and flexibility, the fact is, there are many other movement modalities that are superior for fitness goals. However, if we solely prioritize physicality, we miss out on the deeper internal benefits that yoga uniquely provides, such as sustaining attention, compassion for self and others, and inner peace.

by Dr. Sara Ivanhoe While we all love long summer evenings and late sunsets, they can create sleep challenges we don’t often think about. Your body maintains a remarkably consistent internal rhythm, but light is the primary cue that helps fine-tune its timing. As evening daylight lingers later, your body’s biological night shifts later as well. Melatonin begins rising later, and you may not feel sleepy at your usual bedtime—even if your schedule hasn’t changed.

This is a reflection from master Glo teacher Elena Brower, introducing her new Practice You Journaling Program. The tattered diaries are twenty, thirty forty, fifty years old; pages folded, dusty, underlined, margins full of notes. Some marginalia are letters to myself, others intended to be found by someone I’ll never meet, inhabiting the distant future.

By Jason Crandell Most fathers I know share a few things in common. A love for their kids that’s genuinely hard to articulate. Hips that haven’t been properly stretched in longer than they’d like to admit. Shoulders that carry more than their fair share. And somewhere underneath all of it, a quiet layer of tension that rarely gets addressed. Because there’s always something more pressing to take care of first. I’m a father myself, and I recognize all of these things.

This year, June 21 marks a rare overlap of occasions. Widely recognized as the Summer Solstice—the longest day of the year—it is also the 12th International Day of Yoga, a United Nations-designated observance celebrating yoga and its contributions to human well-being. This year, June 21 also falls on Father’s Day in the United States. International Day of Yoga celebrates a practice that has touched millions of lives around the world.

There’s a reason you return to the same teachers again and again. The way they cue a transition. The energy they bring into the room… Or in Glo’s case, your living room. The feeling that a class was made to meet you exactly where you are today. That relationship is at the heart of how Glo works. And starting in June, we’re deepening it. Featured by Glo is a new monthly series spotlighting world-class guest teachers who are loved by Glo’s teachers and staff.

By Amy Rosoff Davis When Glo asked me to write a Mother’s Day post, I was flooded with ideas. Motherhood is, without question, the wildest, most wonderful, hardest, and most fulfilling journey I’ve ever been on. Where do I even begin? I could talk about how pregnancy and postpartum have reshaped my relationship with my body. How I found a new respect for what it can do and a new rhythm with movement. I could talk about multitasking  and the invisible, ever-present mental load.