Meet the Contributor: Alana

Current role with lululemon: Digital Content Specialist

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

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

yoga in a digital world

February 8, 2012 – 6:21 pm | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

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.

Posted in community, events, goal setting, healthy living, our people, wanderlust, yoga

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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day zero: the adventure begins

July 27, 2011 – 11:48 pm | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Our resident yoga-enthusiast and digital content specialist, Alana, is in Lake Tahoe for Wanderlust Squaw Valley. If you’re reading this on Thursday, the down dogs will be in full swing in Tahoe, but here’s what went down on Day Zero: the Day Before [hints: travel, trivia, and Dirty Dancing were involved]

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ambassador tips for wanderlust tahoe

July 26, 2011 – 9:53 am | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

In a few short days, I’ll be packing up my luon and heading to Wanderlust Tahoe for four days of yoga, music and adventure. I asked some of our Tahoe-bound ambassadors (Chloe Luce, Carolyn Ann Budgell, Clara Roberts-Oss, and Eoin Finn) for tips. After hearing their answers, I may just add my Magic Bullet and a non-black travel mat to my packing list.

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the pursuit of handstands

July 19, 2011 – 12:08 pm | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (19)

Practice, practice, and all is coming – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

Even though I had been practicing yoga on and off since I took my first class in 1998, I used to think that I would not be a legit yogi until I had mastered Adho Mukha Vrksasana, aka handstand. Two things happened that changed my mind.

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the possibility of a lunch hour

February 4, 2011 – 5:22 pm | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Ahh… summer. Chris leading us through an outdoor class last July. We talk about possibilities a lot at lululemon. It’s a simple idea, really. We all have opportunities to create amazing things out of nothing – things that may have not otherwise existed. Our global ambassador Chris Chavez knows how it’s done. He recently turned a potentially mundane [...]

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best of ask a yogi

January 5, 2011 – 7:56 am | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Over the past year you’ve poured your hearts out to our ambassadors and asked them all of your deepest, darkest, yoga questions from studio etiquette to injury prevention. Here’s a roundup of the top 10 Ask a Yogi highlights from 2010. help! i sweat so much in yoga that i slip “Even in non hot [...]

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