Tola Yoga for Beginners…and Yes, it’s Challenging

Check-out yesterday’s Tola Yoga class LIVE on Periscope. 45 minutes of Yoga that anyone can do! And a special thanks to our wonderful Yoga student showing you precise poses, Elif Pilicer.

Have an awesome weekend everyone, and tune-in this Sunday at 1p (CT) for our Tola Yoga by the Lake class on Periscope.tv/richtola, including Vika, Lauren, Amy, Rhonda and Stephanie.

Peace – R

Tola Yoga workouts are 45 minutes and incorporate 5 key elements: Yoga Stretches, Abdominals, Core Strengthening, Balancing & Foundation Poses (Warriors, Triangles, Extended Side Angles).

Thanks for the Memories!

Thanks again to all who came out to support our amazing Stand-up comedians and the Nikki Love Project at Two Hearted Queen this weekend. Great times, great laughs, great music!

Have an awesome week everyone, and tune-in this Wednesday, May 11th at Noon (CT) for another 45 minute pop-up Tola Yoga class – LIVE on Periscope.tv/richtola. Peace – R

Rich Tola – Mindie Music Videos (2 min Compilation)

Fun, challenging, invigorating and very tiring at times yet always a blast to film – one video required more than 50 takes – we filmed 18 Mindie music videos throughout the streets of Hollywood during the summer of 2014…every one of them using popular movie theme songs.

Can you guess the name of every movie, every theme song and every Yoga pose? Enjoy – R

Courage Works at the Yoga Workshop (video)

No doubt having Courage brings you to a whole new level in life. As it does with your Yoga practice, not to mention one simple fact that everybody knows…Yoga gives you Courage.

Alright, let’s not state the obvious here, but doing one-armed feathered peacock pose (or Pincha Mayurasana for you Yoga purists) for the first time, well that takes Courage. So Kudos to my students who courageously tried & learned 10 of the most advanced Yoga poses on earth!

Here’s a few pics and a video of me teaching Eka Pada Koundinyasana I & II from our Arm Balancing & Inversion Workshop at Evanston Athletic Club. Have an awesome day! Peace – R

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https://vimeo.com/richtola/richtolayogaworkshop

Flappers on July 23rd & the Burbank Comedy Festival

Great show last week and I’m now getting ready for this Thursday’s show at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, 10p in the Main Room.

And here’s some more exciting news…I was accepted into the 2nd Annual Burbank Comedy Festival the week of August 16th – 22nd! Performance dates are 8/20 at 4p and 8/21 at 7:30p.

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With each performance a Stand-up comedian experiences an epiphany, i.e., a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something. Pretty heavy stuff, I know, but each time I learn something different about myself and my material. And what’s great about performing is that there are no bad performances, just enlightening ones. Whether I bomb or kill-it, it’s a win-win all around.

Kinda like practicing Yoga…every time you hit the mat you evolve your mind, body and soul. At the very least you make progress with your practice, or as I like to call, move up another rung on the ladder of life. Because no matter what you’re trying to master, the overall journey is more important than the individual occurrences along the way.

Have an awesome week everyone and hope to see you Thursday at Flappers! Peace – R

Tola Talks with Psychotherapist & Yoga Teacher Erin Mason

 

Tola Talks with psychotherapist, clinical social worker & Yoga teacher, Erin Mason. On Top 10 Tuesdays, Rich and Erin discuss how to empower yourself with his Top 10 Yoga Poses & How to Master Them, plus recreational Marijuana & the midterm US elections, the new film by Kevin Smith & Johnny Depp appropriately titled, Yoga Hosers (starring their two daughters), and the Get Your S#!T Together Award goes to the crazy woman from Oregon charged with throwing her 6 year-old son off the Yaquina Bay Bridge.

Watch weekdays on youtube.com/tolatalks

Tola Talks' Rich Tola and Psychotherapist & Yoga Teacher, Erin Mason
Tola Talks’ Rich Tola and Psychotherapist & Yoga Teacher, Erin Mason