agebuzz Guest Blogger: Louise Applebome

By Louise Applebome   Here’s a Pop Quiz:   “What’s most important…the spiritual, psychic or physical effects of an ongoing yoga practice?”    Beep!  “Time’s up!”   Of course, it’s a trick question, and the answer is all three…and much more. Yoga is multi-tiered.   Let’s deconstruct the possibilities.   …

By Louise Applebome   “Where do you need to be?” This question has at least 10,000 edges and its potential answers do, too. It can be an existential inquiry.  It can be specific to time and place or an upcoming appointment. It can be grounded in a yoga class. It…

By Louise Applebome   November 2024 was a month of profound sadness, disappointment, and loss.    And then we have to dig down deep to conjure up our toughest survival skills.    First, there was the U.S. presidential election.  The results were not a shock.  The shortened campaign by the…

By Louise Applebome   Oct. 7, 1975:   “Well here I go attempting another journal. This time I feel like I’ll enjoy continuing it because the idea was proposed by someone I have the most respect and admiration for.”   That first entry in a black, leather-bound journal, on unlined…

By Louise Applebome   Having taught yoga for about 17 years (I was a late bloomer) one of my greatest joys is sharing what I most love and appreciate about my yoga practice with others. I like to introduce new poses, new uses for props, new sequences, variations on a…

By Louise Applebome   Sadly, violent storms have wreaked havoc on towns and communities across this country in recent months and years. My hometown of Dallas was in the crossfire on May 28, when strong winds and rain blew through. Emergency alerts on cell phones urged residents to take shelter…