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TYRONE BEVERLY
L I F E S T Y L E • C O M M U N I T Y • W E L L N E S S • N AT U R E • M O V E M E N T • A D V E N T U R E
SUMMER + FALL 2020
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Letter from the editor / Summer + Fall
photos by: Anthony Thornton; kim fuller
DEAR READERS,
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he time for change is now. Yesterday, yes, that would have been better, but tomorrow will not be soon enough. So today, every day, we take action. YOGA + Life® has always had a mission to inform + inspire. This year, however, has shown us how much we always can learn, adapt and continue to evolve. When our country was hit with the global pandemic this past spring, we met challenge with resilience. You’re holding this magazine because we committed to printing it, even amidst losing big advertising dollars and distribution support. We delayed the issue a bit, just to give everyone more time, and then the world was slashed again to reveal another gaping wound. As deep tensions of racial injustice bubbled to the surface in May and June,
we knew we could do more. We can change. And we did … Just as we declared our admiration and respect to the earth in winter + spring with the “Love Your Planet” issue, we are declaring our love of humanity here and the desire to amplify the voices who haven’t been heard and the struggles that have not been acknowledged. See Tyrone Beverly on the cover and read his words on pages 8-9, and more on page 82. Tyrone has always been a voice for underprivileged Americans. Please take the time to truly hear and feel everything he has to share. We know we have blind spots. While it is our privilege to bring you a dynamic spread of rich and relevant content in this publication, it’s always humbling to know there is more to see. But we can change. And we will … “The great ones adjust,” a good friend and mentor once shared with me. And to that I’ll add: “The great ones take action.” So let’s do this. Let’s be better. Let’s be great. In Gratitude, Kim Fuller, Owner + Editor-In-Chief YOGA + Life® Magazines kim@coyogalifemag.com
Based in Vail, Colorado, KIM FULLER is a freelance writer, editor and photojournalist in addition to her role at YOGA + Life®. She is co-founder of In Your Element, a yoga and outdoor adventure company, and a board member for the nonprofit Big Heart Big Hands. Kim has been published in a number of national publications and is the co-founder of Jaunt Media Collective, the publishing company behind YOGA + Life® and Spoke+Blossom. When she is not diligently writing and editing in her mountain nook, teaching yoga around town or finding a new adventure, find Kim at a local cafe or craft brewery where she enjoys the more indulgent side of inspiration. See more of her work at kimfullerink.com and follow her on Instagram @lifeinfull.
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contents / Sumer + Fall
CONTENTS 36
TAKE ACTION 5
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
We can change
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ABOUT THE COVER
Tyrone Beverly
10 TEAM YOGA + LIFE
The people behind the publication
PROFILES
CO influencers // teachers + leaders // studios
12 COLORADO INFLUENCERS
Arcana, Tailwind + Two Skirts
14 TEACHERS + LEADERS
Madeleine + Alex Hasulak; Haley Laughter
18 STUDIOS
Buffalo + Sparrow; jalaBlu
LIFESTYLE
books // art // community // travel // what we love
20 “GONE IS GONE” BY ISABELLE GROC
Wildlife under threat
21 “THE MESS THAT WE MADE”
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Review by Sandy Ferguson Fuller
22 ART + CULTURE
October is Arts Month
24 TERRY JOSIAH SHARPE
“Music is emotion.”
26 HERE HOUSE
Taking action in Aspen
27 CO ESCAPES
Palisade; Cohabit Podtel in Avon
30 CO COMMUNITY
Q&A with Allie Yazel, Powder Day Creative
photo curtesy of: Tonic Method
32 REFILL REVOLUTION How to create a low-waste lifestyle 34 TRAVEL
Gifts of the Amazon
36 WHAT WE LOVE
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Essential products for summer + fall
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YOGA + FITNESS
movement // in the practice // seva
40 YOGA + ESSENTIAL OILS
For anxiety and depression
44 MIND, BODY, SPORT
Recovery after injury
46 KIDS YOGA
Outside your mind + inside Mother Nature
48 YOUR HOME FLOW
5 ways to invigorate your practice
49 SAVASANA
The most important pose
50 KARMA YOGA
Reflections on a work exchange
OUTSIDE
fresh air // environment // adventure // gear
52 SUP YOGA
Switch up your movement routine
54 ZERO-WASTE HABITS
8 things to adopt this season
56 A-LODGE
Adventure vans for rent
photo by: kim fuller
58 FAMILY BACKPACKING 101
Keys to success
62 GEAR GUIDE
Goods for summer + fall
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WELLNESS
ayurveda // health // inspiration // food
64 EATING FOR YOUR DOSHA
Connect with your well-being
66 INTUITIVE EATING
10 principles for success
68 MANAGING HORMONES + STRESS
Elizabeth Peterson — The Adeptist
70 EVERY CHOICE MATTERS
5 ways to take mindful action
72 TRAUMA + YOGA Practicing and teaching as a survivor 74 PLANT-BASED REVOLUTION
Guide to eating less meat
76 RECIPE BOOK Chef Roy Benningfield of SALT in Boulder
DISTRIBUTION YOGA + Life partners
80 DIRECTORY
Y+L Distribution Partners
82 NAMASTE
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Spotlight TYRONE BEVERLY
taking action
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On Inequality
yrone Beverly has an extreme passion for equality and human rights. He is the founder and executive director of Im’Unique, a Denver-based non-profit dedicated to uniting the community and fostering healthy lifestyles within underserved communities. YOGA + Life Magazines asked Beverly to speak to injustice amidst a turmoil of current events locally and across the world. “With everything constantly changing, we’ve been doing our best to change with it,” shares Beverly. “We are providing online movement and now holding very important conversations on race. Asana isn’t curing
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COVID or addressing racism, so we’ve been making necessary adjustments.” Here’s more from our conversation with Beverly: IN YOUR WORDS, HOW HAS THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND RECENT RACIAL EVENTS IN COLORADO AND THE UNITED STATES EXACERBATED TENSIONS AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF RACIAL INEQUITY AND INJUSTICE? In April, we found out that in the United States, black Americans were dying disproportionately from COVID-19. That news reflected the same results here locally in
Colorado and in numerous states across the country. The governor of Louisiana reported that 70 percent of the people dying in Louisiana from COVID-19 were also black Americans. According to health experts, black Americans have such a higher mortality rate when faced with COVID-19 because this population suffers more from high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and other poor health conditions. On top of fighting a global pandemic, the most insidious pandemic of all time decides to show the world just how vicious it still is. A cop from Louisiana posted on Facebook “how unfortunate” that coronavirus didn't kill more black people. A person sworn to protect and serve the public wishes death on innocent black people. To desire the death of innocent people illustrates a global mental health crisis that continues to clinically go undiagnosed. It’s deeper than bigotry, prejudices or the common definitions of racism — under these circumstances its an ineradicable sickness. An important question to ask is how many black people has this officer ticketed, pulled over, testified against or arrested in his career? And if he wants to see black people dead, how trust worthy is any of his accounts against them. Noticing that black, brown, elderly and indigenous people were more susceptible to contracting the virus, some protesting stayat-home orders became so angry that they grabbed their assault riffles, confederate flags and took to the streets. America witnessed white Americans carry their assault riffles, threaten city officials and yet there was no tear gas, rubber bullets, barricades or arrests made during their protest. During this time, reports showed several men showing up to grocery stores in Colorado and across the country with Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hoods on. Comfortably walking into grocery stores in 2020 with KKK hoods on is America’s acceptance of black terror. Their anger of the stay-at-home order was quickly directed at black people. The KKK has been openly terrorizing black people for decades and America has spoken without words. As we all face this global pandemic, wearing our masks, gloves and protective gear, there stands a man with a white sheet over his head, staring in the distance, reminding us that the most merciless pandemic will live
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Q +A
profiles / About the Cover
parallel to this novel coronavirus, and America has welcomed his longevity. To openly support and allow domestic terrorism highlights how we are not in this together! The man standing with a white sheet over his head in the distance … he may even take off his hood, be more discreet, even appear in a suit and tie or uniform. He may move just like Benjamin Stapleton who’s legacy has lived on in a local neighborhood in Denver named after him. That neighborhood, finally, has just voted this June for their home to be renamed. For some reason during all this, I found myself thinking about the oldest animal on the planet. I guess staying at home for a couple months can make you ponder all kinds of things. I started thinking about Johnathan. Johnathan is a tortoise that resides in St. Helena, an island off of West Africa. Some people say that Johnathan is the oldest known animal in the world. I decided to look up a picture of Johnathan; I wanted to see what kind of insight, what kind of wisdom was carved into his 187-year-old aged body. The first thing I noticed about Johnathan was that he appeared to be angry, yet youthful. He was African. Throughout my inquiry, I had seen two French scientists come out and publicly state they wanted to test unproven COVID vaccines on Africans. Being that Johnathan sat closely off the cost of West Africa, I wondered if he had heard the news and if it had pissed him off and that’s why he looked so mad in all of his pictures. When those scientists disclosed their plans to experiment on Africans, it opened up a very painful wound for many African Americans. It was a reminder of the 40-yearold Tuskegee experiment that literally contributed long-term chronic health disparities and contributed to the depopulation of black people. It was a reminder of the decades of Dr. Albert Kligman’s experiments in Philadelphia which ended in 1978. The experiments included burning black bodies with all kind of harsh chemicals, like the agent orange ingredient dioxin, radioactive isotopes, and calling it benign. He was testing shampoos, soaps, deodorants and even mind-altering drugs. Some of the men’s skin was damaged so badly it turned into a leather-like texture. Kligman became rich and celebrated in the
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field of dermatology and credited for inventing Retin-A. As many scientists are eager to create a vaccine for COVID-19, certain groups are being preyed on once again. In late March, a good friend of mine, ZW, reached out to me about her efforts to support a Northern Arapaho indigenous tribe on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming during the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking about wounds, the indigenous people of this country have not forgotten how bio-weapons have contributed to one of, if not the most, horrific genocides ever committed in world history. She explained that the majority of the tribe were immune compromised because of open uranium mining on their land. The water on their particular part of the land is undrinkable, yet when a person is dehydrated, their will to survive leaves them with very little choices. This has led to an increase in cancer and other poor health conditions. She explained that they had no hospitals, no clinics and that they are under the jurisdiction of the federal government but they will not be receiving the same support as the rest of Wyoming. COVID cases began to spread quickly, and I wondered if that was indicative to all the reservations across the country, and if the reservations in Canada were cared for in that same manner. Going back to my earlier comment about health experts stating that black people suffer more from high blood pressure, diabetes and other health conditions, makes me think some scientists and medical researchers continue to get a pass on their contribution to oppression. They simply glaze over and create simplified prognosis that directly puts the onus on the individual and not the system and condition the individual lives in. What has gotten black Americans to this point? Before this moment in time, for many, there was no real incentive to actually care about black people. That’s why the easy answer can’t always be the go-to answer. Easy leaves out the continued trauma of witnessing Tamir Rice, Philando Castile and Eric Garner being murdered live on social media. Easy criminalizes black people to justify the cruelty that is bestowed upon them. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. They were not innocent until proven guilty, they were guilty — guilty
of being black. After the world watched Ahmaud Arbery be hunted like elk, we dropped in pain. After the world heard about the bullets piercing through Breonna Taylor’s innocent body, we shook uncontrollably, and after George Floyd was lynched for the whole world to see, we stood back up and said this can no longer be our reality. If only Johnathan could speak. Given that Johnathan is the progeny of a family tree that would only require three generations to fully articulate over 500 of history. WHERE DO YOU SEE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDES IN THE YOGA COMMUNITY AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE WAYS WE CAN BRIDGE THE GAPS? That’s challenging because even the bridge has gaps but I think we can all make a difference because everyone has something special to offer. People just have to live their practice and never lose hope in our collective humanity. When Yoga Journal, Gaia TV and the other major yoga media outlets of the world create platforms that empower people from various walks of life to be content creators, things will continue to improve. Constant representation is equity and being in a position to make decisions also a form of social justice. WHAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RACE-DRIVEN INEQUITIES THAT YOU BELIEVE WE CAN ALL TAKE ACTION ON ELIMINATING IN OUR EVERY DAY LIVES? There is a great deal of unlearning that needs to take place. One of the most significant actions people can take is unlearn — unlearn toxic behavior and unlearn their fixed comprehension of race. WHAT ARE WAYS TO CONTINUE BROADENING PERSPECTIVE AND EMBRACE EDUCATION ON RACE RELATIONS IN THE U.S. AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD? The falsification of history is one of the leading causes of our condition. Once we free ourselves from being stuck in a repetitive algorithm that reenforcing what we already believe to be true, we will be in a better position. +
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profiles / Behind the Pages
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meet the team KIM FULLER Owner + Editor-In-Chief
BOBBY L’HEUREUX Owner + Director of Partnerships
Based in Vail, Colorado, KIM FULLER is a freelance writer, editor and photojournalist in addition to her role at YOGA + Life®. She is co-founder of In Your Element, a yoga and outdoor adventure company, and a board member for the nonprofit Big Heart Big Hands. Kim has been published in a number of national publications and is the co-founder of Jaunt Media Collective, the publishing company behind YOGA + Life® and Spoke+Blossom. When she is not diligently writing and editing in her mountain nook, teaching yoga around town or finding a new adventure, find Kim at a local cafe or craft brewery where she enjoys the more indulgent side of inspiration. See more of her work at kimfullerink. com and follow her on Instagram @lifeinfull.
At the heart of his work, Bobby thrives on community and connection. As cofounder of Jaunt Media Collective, the company behind YOGA + Life® and Spoke+Blossom, Bobby successfully develops and sustains collaborations with entrepreneurs and businesses all over Colorado and beyond. Bobby lives in the Vail Valley where he teaches yoga and runs Big Heart Big Hands, a non-profit that supports mountain safety and awareness. He is an ambassador for Lululemon and Lolë, and his yoga classes are always led with a big smile and a relaxed demeanor. jauntmediacollective. com
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CHELSEA CONNOLLY Creative Director With a cultivated eye for design, Chelsea's work has been influencing luxury publications and brands for over a decade. Chelsea calls Breckenridge her home but the Colorado native has been shaped personally and professionally by living all over the world. In addition to designing CO YOGA + Life®, you'll find her spearheading the look and feel of award-winning beauty brands, world-class restaurants and bespoke boutiques. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys the Colorado outdoors, live music, yoga, entertaining, traveling the world and spending time with her husband and two young sons. Follow her on Instagram @thechelseaconnolly.
JULI RATHKE YOGA + Life® Founder When Juli was in 8th grade she knew she wanted to influence in a big way and had the dream (among many) of becoming a magazine editor. Well, she did more than that. She has been publishing magazines since 2002 and is the founder of the YOGA+Life® brand. In addition, she is a multifaceted business woman, author, speaker and influencer bridging the gap between the yoga and business worlds. Follow her IGTV musings and see what’s next as there is always more with her family adventures, video interviews, her new book and world travels at @julirathke or www.JuliRathke.com.
LEXI REICH Editorial Manager After experiencing a yoga ashram nestled in the mountains of Colorado, Lexi became enthralled in the practice of yoga and meditation, and earned her yoga teacher training at the sacred space. Originally from Chicago, Lexi loves the holistic lifestyle she found in Colorado, and combining this passion with her writing is what makes her truly happy. As a recent graduate from University of Colorado Boulder, Lexi spends most of her time freelance writing and leading weekly yoga classes. Besides this, you can find her hiking or traveling. Follow her on Instagram @lexi_reich.
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