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

meet our art: atlanta

location Perimeter Mall, Atlanta (opened Nov. 9) created with lululemon fabric from the lab in Vancouver. created by Textile artist Lizz Aston. inspired by The patterns of nature and the local landscape of the Atlanta region which the Chattahoochee River runs through. Art in progress Up close and personal Connect with our Perimeter store on [...]

sweat around the world

There’s a reason that people pack their stretchy gear when they travel to a new place. Yoga mats and running shoes unite us, regardless of where we are in the world or what language we speak. To celebrate our growing international family of ecommerce sites which includes Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, I [...]

mary beth larue: how did i get here?

Throughout the next few months, we’ll be sharing stories from our ambassadors on things they’ve experienced that helped contribute to who and where they are today. Mary Beth Larue is a Vinyasa yoga teacher and ambassador at our Santa Monica store. She began practicing yoga to find relief from sitting at a desk for her day [...]

fierce medicine: book review

In my first-ever class with Ana Forrest at the New York Yoga Journal Conference, she asked us while sitting cross-legged to place one hand on our genitals, the other on our anus, and to make a high-pitched buzzing sound with our voices. I consider myself an open-minded individual, but at that moment all I was [...]

meditation for possibility

Whatever you’re doing, whoever you are, and wherever you are in the world, the last meditation in our series with Baron Baptiste was made for you. When’s the last time you dropped everything to remind yourself that you can do anything? Do it now. Take two minutes to listen to this Meditation for Possibility. If [...]

meditation for email overload

Email apnea: Holding one’s breath unconsciously while reading an email. (source) I first learned this term at last year’s San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference during a talk called Digital Distractions and Your Practice. The fact is, many of us hold or shorten our breath when opening our inbox, while responding to emails, or while working [...]

meditation for your yoga rut

what’s a yoga rut? It’s happened to me and it’s likely happened to you before, too: the yoga rut. What is a yoga rut, you ask? It looks like this: your friend asks you to a class and you have to think twice. Your favourite yoga pose is boring you. You’re frustrated that after x [...]

meditation for your inner athlete

It was the night before running the SeaWheeze in August and I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to sleep. I’d trained all I could train, I’d been staying hydrated on the advice of Trainer Rob, and I had my lucky outfit ready to go, but it was my first half marathon and I was [...]

wanderlust whistler recap

After the first Wanderlust Whistler was announced back in February, we got our yoga festival on in Vermont, Colorado and Tahoe, but nothing was more special than having this weekend of yoga and music happen in our own backyard. Watch our recap of the festival: And check out a few photos highlighting what we got [...]

what my flip flops taught me at wanderlust

After 8 hours of yoga and meditation with world-renowned teachers at Wanderlust Tahoe, I experienced one of the weekend’s most valuable lessons after class while trying to put flip flops on. one foot in We had just finished Baron Baptiste’s Foundations in Action class and the giant white tent was in transition with sweaty, blissful [...]