Developing an at-home practice during a time when my struggle with anxiety and depression has been magnified by the quarantine has had an amazing and profound impact on my life. It makes me wonder “What aspects of this giant social yoga experiment will stay in place after the pandemic has passed?”
Does Yoga Make You a Better Boxer?
Have you ever had an intuition so strong that if you didn’t act, you would feel sick to your stomach? Well, that’s what led me to stop yoga for 8 weeks and step into the boxing ring with no experience.
A Yoga Competition Came to Town
When I first heard about a yoga competition taking place in Columbus several years ago, I was taken aback. Sacrilege is the first word that came to mind. As someone who has committed his life to all things yoga, I felt like the message of non-attachment and non-judgment was made pretty clear. Why would people…
“To move around and do sports, they are the best shorts I’ve ever worn,” Jason Ellis.
What Should Guys Wear in Yoga? (Post)
The landscape of men’s fashion and athletic trends is constantly changing and, ironically, those of us who practice non-attachment to material things are easily influenced by them.
Bringing Yoga into Conversation (Post)
The one thing yoga has taught us time and time again is to listen to our bodies. It teaches us about the muscle fibers in our knees, the tightness in our hips, and the balance we gain from engaging our perineum (who knew?). However, when applying the ‘listen to our body’ principal outside of the studio, it feels like all is lost. How many times has your brain talked your gut out of an answer, discounted an instinct as irrational, or forced you to wait until you could no longer stomach the feeling of a difficult conversation you knew about several moons ago?
Om Yoga Magazine, How to Win at Yoga (Article)
Who needs competition? Jered Seibert says we can still experience that same feeling of winning jubilation each time we step on the mat. In the post-Trump Brexit era of capitalism, competition is a touchy subject and even more taboo when…
Huffington Post, Trading Mutual Funds for Yoga Mats (Interview)
This is an interview with Jered Seibert, founder of Warrior Wear LLC, who last year left his mutual fund sales work to become a full-time entrepreneur, creating yoga products for men. Drawing upon inspiration from yoga service, and frustrated at the lack of products for male practitioners, he…
Om Yoga Magazine, Is 2017 the Year For Men’s Yoga? (Article)
Millions of men now practice yoga around the world, but more are on their way. Jered Seibert explains why this could be a breakthrough year for guys on the mat. What would have to happen in 2017 for it to be considered the year that men finally embrace yoga? For roughly the past 30 years…
Creating a Community (Post)
How my practice translates into my life is paramount to why I do it. I haven’t found another physical discipline that more directly reflects what’s going on in my day to day life than yoga. Whether it’s the ability to focus, a feeling of strength, or a nagging insecurity; if it’s on my mat, it’s…