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

yoga on parliament hill

meet ichih Current hometown: Ottawa, Ontario Website: http://livelifeyoga.com Type of yoga she’s teaching at Wanderlust Whistler: Baptiste-inspired, Hatha and Yin Life loves: Yoga and travel. Yoga is a way of life for me. I have the best job in the world, I get to travel and do and teach yoga. Why she started teaching: A [...]

seawheeze sea salt caramel bars – yum!

I first met Kate on Heartbreak Hill in Boston, where she was (rather aggressively) cheering on marathoners, sometimes leaving the sidelines to run next to friends, helping them up the toughest part of the Boston Marathon. As an athlete training for Ironman Mont Tremblant (her goal is to do it in under 11:15), a keyleader [...]

cycle faster. do yoga.

Relaxed and ready to take on cobblestones at the Tour of Flanders! In March we rolled up our yoga mats and travelled to Belgium (via Amsterdam) to support Team Specialized-lululemon at one of the most epic cycling races ever, the Tour of Flanders. Flanders is known as epic because of its 100-year history and course [...]

the seawheeze diaries: week 1

Seawheeze training kicked off this week at the lululemon office here in Vancouver, and our instagram feeds have been flooded with neon running shoes, screenshots from our Seawheeze app, and sweaty people on the seawall. One person’s instagram photos stood out a little more than usual – our brand experience manager, Lesia (who you may [...]

run vancouver

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 # [...]

yoga in amsterdam

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 [...]

goosebump city

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 [...]

truth or dare!… at the yoga journal conference

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? [...]

yoga. music. wanderlust. whistler!

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, [...]

yoga in a digital world

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 [...]