Meet the Contributor: Alana

Current role with lululemon: Brand Experience – Community

Things I am passionate about include: story telling, writing, travel, inflight magazines, Magic Bullets, SkyMall, and yoga.

Find me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/alanamairs

run vancouver

May 8, 2012 – 7:20 pm | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (6)

At last weekend’s BMO Vancouver Marathon, over 15,000 runners laced up and took on Vancouver, from the seawall to Stanley Park. Personal bests were crushed, new goals were set and at least a hundred new cowbells were broken in. cheer station* stats** # of people: 203 % cheer-induced sore throats the next day: 98 # [...]

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yoga in amsterdam

April 29, 2012 – 10:24 am | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (6)

When you’ve been travelling, your body can get confused. How do you explain “missed flight” and “jet lag” to your joints and ligaments? Our mission when we landed in Amsterdam last month (en route to Belgium to support the Specialized-lululemon cycling team): find yoga. vondelpark: yoga found us The scene: a misty early morning in [...]

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goosebump city

April 17, 2012 – 5:22 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The goosebumps started at the Boston Marathon expo on the weekend before the race. Never, never give up. Our Detroit ambassador, Sue (on the left), ran the marathon with her aunt Sue, who finished chemo 4 weeks ago. Canadian Josh Cassidy near the top of the hill, before finishing to break the world record in [...]

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truth or dare!… at the yoga journal conference

April 14, 2012 – 10:40 pm | Tagged , | Comments (1)

In between classes today at the New York Yoga Journal Conference, I took a few minutes to challenge friends both old and new to a game of Truth or Dare. The game turned primarily into “Truth”, with only one dare issued (pending photo evidence), and things quickly got real. have you ever faked an om? [...]

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yoga. music. wanderlust. whistler!

February 14, 2012 – 9:42 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (9)

What are you doing on August 23-26, 2012? The first-ever Wanderlust Festival in Canada is taking place in Whistler, BC, and we couldn’t be more stoked to be hosting this huge yoga and music experience in our own backyard. what is wanderlust? Yoga. Music. Dancing. Mountains. Put all those together and add amazing yoga instructors, [...]

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yoga in a digital world

February 8, 2012 – 6:21 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

We’re all about honouring our yoga practice but our inner geek is quick to adapt the latest and greatest technologies too. From great yoga apps to cellphones going off during class, Alana shares her Yoga Journal Conference learnings on managing our digital and yoga lives. yoga and our digital world After three days of wild [...]

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wanderlust 2011: a summary

August 1, 2011 – 10:40 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

How do you put four days of life-changing yoga and celebration at Wanderlust Festival in Lake Tahoe into words without sounding like you drank a big glass of Kool-Aid? Alana’s solution: lists.

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day 3: when the going gets tough

July 31, 2011 – 8:44 am | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Day 3 of the Wanderlust Festival (only one more day left!) brings spontaneous acts of yoga, the Rolling Stones, and the question: when the going gets tough, do you stick it out or peace out?

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day 2: want something? create it.

July 30, 2011 – 12:14 am | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Hips are open, tears are flowing, and there’s still two days of good times at Wanderlust left. Alana’s here with her Day 2 recap which included yoga classes with Seane Corn and John Friend, a lecture on happiness and meditation, and meeting a hammock company that’s out to change the world.

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day 1 at wanderlust

July 28, 2011 – 10:38 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Today our on-the-mat correspondent Alana got in touch with her inner pole dancer, cleaned out her personal “junk drawer”, met her mat neighbours, had a yoga breakthrough and laid a pretend egg. And this was just the first day of the Wanderlust festival.

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