Tattooed Buddha Yoga

25/12/2022

Merry Christmas + Happy Holidays!

May the peace, joy, love and magic of the season be with you throughout the year.💕✨

(Studio is closed today. Back to our regular schedule tomorrow.)

08/12/2022

Feel the burn + find your bliss💕

THURSDAY
Slow Flow Vinyasa w/Lisa
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Yoga for Healthy Backs w/Sam
6 PM - 7 PM

04/12/2022

North of the Moon's quick notes for December 4, 2022:

Relax and be well. The Moon moves into earthy, solid Ta**us at 3:38 am (PST/USA + 8 hrs UK). The emotional landscape smoothes out as this Moon tends to be steady and routine oriented. It's a good day to slow down and engage in self care, meditation, good nutrition, or anything that pleases your soul. After the last few days the energies seem to calm down. Putter and work on those things that you can easily complete. It's more important to heal and find inner harmony.

Work with your favorite crystals as their innate earthiness can be felt. Rose Quartz will soften edgy vibes and tap into your loving heart energies. The scent of Rose adds to the soft, good vibes. Neptune in Pisces went direct yesterday. It will take a few days, but clarity will return and you'll begin to see issues in your personal and the outside world more clearly. Ta**us Moon is slow to act, but you may find yourself being frustrated if you're trying to manifest something that's not meant for you. Tap into your truth. Go slow. Take care! ❤️ NotM

☆ The energies are building up to next Wednesday's Full Moon in Gemini. Ideas and communications will increase during this time. Take note of meetings or conversations. Jupiter/ Sagittarius are feeling benevolent right now. Ask. Believe. Receive. Abundance can be yours. Draw it in!

28/11/2022

Create space to blossom today💕

MONDAY
Hatha + Meditation w/Kim
9 AM - 10:15 AM

Hatha w/Lisa
6 PM - 7 PM

27/11/2022

When we feel trapped by a situation in life and can’t see beyond a two-dimensional view (good/bad, right/wrong, love/hate) we don’t have a magic button we press to change our view point or zoom in and out---it’s not quite that easy.

20/11/2022

I am not the thinker of the thoughts. I am the observer of the thinker and the thoughts.

20/11/2022

05/10/2022

As a homesteader, I spend a lot of time dealing with manure.

I clean it out of the cat’s litter boxes. I step in it each time I feed the chickens and I collect it from our two rabbits, Belladonna and Oleander. That last part might be surprising to some people. It’s not often that people talk about growing their p**p collection, but it makes sense in the context of gardening.

Simply put, soil is a living thing and the wise gardener feeds it lots of yummy foods because nothing grows in hungry soil. Rabbit manure is a special treat for garden soil. The manure is nutritious, high in nitrogen and phosphorus. Also, it breaks down slowly, providing nutrients throughout the growing season.

That said, rabbit manure might be good for my garden, but dealing with it is unpleasant.

~ By Sensei Alex Kakuyo

Buddhist practices like meditation and mindful breathing help us calm our mind in the face of life's difficulties. Chanting and sutra study help us look to the teachings for guidance; showing us ways to transform life's burdens into something useful.

06/09/2022

The Tattooed Buddha strives to be an open space for the author’s authentic voice. So while not necessarily Buddhist, we are offering a dialogue that is aware and awake to the reality of our present day to day, tackling issues of community, environment, and compassionate living.

23/06/2022

Happy Thursday!

Slow Flow Vinyasa w/Lisa
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

NEW CLASS! Yoga for Healthy Backs w/Stacy
6 PM - 7 PM

21/06/2022

Happy Yoga Day 2022!

16/05/2022

In Buddhism we vow when we take refuge. We all vow when we use the word “friend.”

When we tell someone, “You are my friend” we are offering them safety, trust, generosity and accountability. Even the cheapest version of that word, the notorious “Facebook friend request” means if we accept it, we are sharing access and “clickability” with another person because we believe they will not harm us. The bottom line of all of our connections is a promise to be good for, or at least good to, another. We mean it with all intention. And sometimes, we discover, it was indeed a very nice lie.

~ By Kellie Schorr

The truth is---we do let each other down. There are mountains that are too high. Sometimes we part before death because the relationship is killing us. On certain days we give more whine than wine.

05/05/2022

Or do a little yoga...🥰

Freedom. How about you?

18/04/2022

Make time for yoga. It helps💕😂

Monday
Hatha + Meditation w/Kim
9 AM - 10:15 AM

Slow Flow Vinyasa w/Lisa
6 PM - 7 PM

01/04/2022

Yoga is a great form of exercise and a beautiful way to “find your inner peace.” 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ Today is International Yoga Day, a day to take some Advice from a Yogi and “live in the moment!”

21/03/2022

Remember that these 2 classes are FREE this month for brand new students OR if you haven’t been to the studio in the last 12 months:

Monday
Yinyasa, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Friday
Hatha, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Join us and go from Before Yoga to After Yoga😂💕

17/03/2022

In the Eastern school of spiritual thought, it is these very “wants” that cause us to be dissatisfied with “what is” right now. And the last time I checked, now is all there is.

I recently heard of two women friends of mine, each living on opposite sides of the planet, who almost simultaneously had profound encounters with homeless men living at the mercy of the elements. What resulted for both women were powerful realizations around the nature of our material existence, the power of service, humility, and the resilience of the human spirit.

~ By Robert Butler

What we truly need in life is very little. Air, sufficient water, a little food, a place to sleep, and if we are very lucky, love. Everything else is a want.

10/03/2022

We’re quick to explain that faith in Buddhism is more akin to trust, and practitioners don’t need to believe anything that doesn’t resonate with them.

This is good, correct teaching. In fact, one of the high points of Buddhist doctrine is that it encourages discourse. It encourages people to be skeptical and ask questions.

And no one is required to believe something that doesn’t sit well with them. I’ll say it again, this is a good thing.

~ By Sensei Alex Kakuyo

To put it another way, my skepticism led to experimentation. My experimentation led to trust. Over time that trust became faith.

18/01/2022

Simply put, enlightenment is the ability to accept the world exactly as it is, while simultaneously working to make it better. I like this definition because it’s extremely practical and has applications in everyday life.

~ By Sensei Alex Kakuyo

Simply put, enlightenment is the ability to accept the world exactly as it is, while simultaneously working to make it better. I like this definition because it's extremely practical and has applications in everyday life.

09/01/2022

These all apply to yoga as well. After all, yoga is moving meditation. 🙏🏼

01/01/2022

After the abyss of 2020 and the longer trauma of 2021, I can honestly look at my brand new 2022 calendar and say, “I don’t want to go.” How do we make it across the threshold into a year that is dragging the baggage of its predecessors in one hand and promising nothing with the other? With a cup of tea.



By Kellie Schorr


I looked forward to going to my friend’s house for dinner.

I said yes, found a time that worked for us, and responded with a hearty “can’t wait to see you!” I said it. I meant it. I put a star on my calendar and picked my clothes. Everything was ready, steady and happy until…that morning.

“I have so much to do.”
“This isn’t a good day.”
“Maybe she’s busy too. Maybe she’ll cancel.”
“I could tell her I’m a little tired.”
“Maybe the dog ate something she shouldn’t, and I should stay home to watch her.”

Dragging around like it’s the day I need to turn myself in to start a hard-labor prison sentence, whining and moaning, I check my phone repeatedly praying for an amazing, “Sorry, something came up” text—the perfect “get out of jail free” card. Cathy hands me the car keys and motions toward the door.

“I don’t want to go,” I mumble.

I know what she’s going to say. It’s what she always says.

“You’ll be fine once you get there.”

And…she’s right.

By the time the initial hugs are done, and smiles are exchanged, I sink into happiness like a warm bath, listening to stories, eating, laughing and loving the people I’m with. I know myself well enough to realize this isn’t a unique occurrence; it’s a pattern. Right now, I’m not just feeling it when It comes to visiting my friends; I’m experiencing it about a whole year.

After the abyss of 2020 and the longer trauma of 2021, I can honestly look at my brand new 2022 calendar and say, “I don’t want to go.”

How do we make it across the threshold into a year that is dragging the baggage of its predecessors in one hand and promising nothing with the other? With a cup of tea.
Tea with 2022

“Tea with demons” or “feeding your demons” is a well-known Buddhist strategy for dealing with the things in our life that trouble us beyond our ability to control them. Instead of fighting or avoiding your torments, sit down with them and cooperate, communicate, open up and learn from them. Once you have a better understanding of who or what you’re dealing with, a path forward will often emerge.

This year instead of bravado (“This is gonna be my year!”), delusion (“It’s gotta be better than the last one, right? That’s how years work.”) or derision (“Batten down the hatches, another sucky trip around the sun awaits.”) take some time to sit down with a nice cup of tea (or coffee or water or wine—whatever works) and invite 2022 to the table.

You can write it out, talk aloud or stare off into the horizon and project your thoughts silently. Envision 2022 with its 12-month expanse clumsily sitting down beside you. Let your mind open and make space for a conversation.

~ By Kellie Schorr

I don’t know what 2022 is going to bring and it is a strange comfort to realize that it doesn’t either.