rock your world issue
SCOTTY STOUGHTON
MUSIC, CONSCIOUSNESS + COMMUNITY
ALWAYS LIVE EXTRAORDINARILY
INSPIRATION FROM OLYMPIAN GRETCHEN BLEILER
AND BEAT THE WINTER BLUES
Unleash Your Inner Rock 'N' Roller
LIFESTYLE • COMMUNITY • WELLNESS • NATURE • MOVEMENT • ADVENTURE
WINTER + SPRING 2017–18
HOW TO SOFTEN STRESS
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Letter from the editor / Winter + Spring 2017-18
DEAR READERS,
H
ow do you Rock Your World? The theme of this issue was inspired by the riffs — the short repeated phrases in all of our lives. The high notes, and the low. So what do you do when your world gets rocked, one way or the other? Winter shows us the darkest days of the year, followed by Spring’s emergence of light and renewal. Articles in the following pages play the impressive range of expression our writers are eager to compose. Musicians and athletes, parents and teachers, all show us a piece of their world, or an encounter that has evoked them enough to share it with us. CO YOGA + Life™ is committed to inform and inspire people who want to move, play and connect with their bodies, within nature and throughout their communities. We are here are to contribute as an instrument of conversation and awareness; to sound out beliefs and conduct humble introspection. So build your chorus, but feel that the crescendo — your mat or the mountaintop — isn’t all there is to reach. We invite you to engage beneath the surface, beyond the light. Sometimes it’s the darkest part of the night that reveals to us what we’re not seeing, and then makes that sunrise all the more beautiful. Music, like breath, can fill space between everything — all that is bright and all that is dim. This experience of notes and rhythms, of moments, can resonate as a pleasing and balanced harmony, or a series of short and detached staccatos. Listen up, and don’t miss a beat. It is all a part of the song. In Gratitude,
Lago Bianco (White Lake), St. Moritz, Switzerland
Kim Fuller, Owner + Editor-In-Chief kim@coyogalifemag.com
Based in Vail, Colorado, KIM FULLER is a freelance writer, editor and photojournalist in addition to her role at CO YOGA + Life™ . She is also a yoga teacher and co-founder of In Your Element, a yoga and outdoor adventure company. Kim has been published in The Denver Post, 5280 Magazine, Yoga Journal, Elevation Outdoors, Mountain, MTN Town, Outside, Snowshoe Magazine, Gear Institute, SUP Journal and more. When she is not diligently writing and editing in her mountain nook, teaching yoga around town or finding a new adventure, find Kim at a local cafe or craft brewery, where she enjoys the more indulgent side of inspiration. See more of her work at www.kimfullerink.com, and follow her on Instagram @lifeinfull.
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contents / Winter + Spring 2017-18
CONTENTS
ROCK YOUR WORLD 7 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Don’t miss a beat
10 COVER SPOTLIGHT
Rock On, Scotty Stoughton
12 AMBASSADORS
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Colorado dream team
PROFILES
studios // teachers // entrepreneurs
14 STUDIO PROFILES + Loveland Community Yoga + Yoga Center of Steamboat 18 STUDIO NEWS
Yoga Pod Boulder + O2 Aspen
20 TEACHER PROFILES + Coach Shane Neimeyer + Teacher + Musician Seth Larson + Jacki Carr of Rock Your Bliss
LIFESTYLE
24 CO DESTINATIONS + Explore craft culture in Northern Colorado + Soak in Manitou Springs 26 JOHN DENVER ROCKS ON Legacy of Colorado musician stays timeless in
children’s books
27 CAMPOUT FOR THE CAUSE Music + yoga festival celebrates 10 years in June 28 CO COMMUNITY + Toe-tapping bar + restaurant venues + Aspen City of Wellbeing is creating cultural shift
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30 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Q&A with Gary Markowitz of LillianB activewear 32 A TASTE OF CALIFORNIA
Spotlight on the Central Coast
34 WHAT WE LOVE
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These are a few of our favorite things
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photo Courtesy of: Campout for the Cause, photo by Tobin Voggesser. Photo courtesy of: Dawn Publications
community // books // music // art // travel
YOGA + FITNESS
WELLNESS
38 2018 RETREAT MAP
74 BEATING THE WINTER BLUES Seeking sunshine through seasonal affect
retreats // movement // philosophy // in the practice
Get inspired for your next getaway
40 ESCAPE TO CRESTED BUTTE
Yoga & Nordic Ski Retreat
health // ayurveda // inspiration // food
76 REIKI FOR YOUR FUR BABY Physical and emotional energy of animals
42 DISCOVER BUTI YOGA Unleash the practice of the feminine
77 5 WAYS TO SOFTEN STRESS Angela Gaffney on how to calm the chaos
44 UNLEASH YOUR INNER ROCK ‘N’ ROLLER Sequence spotlight with Justin Kaliszewski
78 BEYOND FIGHT OR FLIGHT Get to know your sympathetic and
48 START YOUR DAY RIGHT Daybreaker Colorado
50 NAMAS + NIYAMAS IN PRACTICE
Hali Love on Ahimsa + Satya
52 BALANCE + SELF CARE
“This too I can use.”
54 SENSORY DEPRIVATION
Samana Float Center
56 ROCKIN’ THE YOGI PARENT THING
How to keep the beat of family + life
58 WINTER RITUALS Grounding practices from Ange Stopperan
OUTSIDE
adventure // fresh air // environment // gear
parasympathetic nervous systems
82 LIVING IN RHYTHM Ayurveda with Julia Clarke 84 SPIRITUAL METAL Unconditional love from the heart of loss 86 RECIPES Cold weather inspiration from the
Conscious Cleanse
90 HOW TO ROCK THE KITCHEN Step #1: Get an awesome chef ’s knife
EVENTS
Colorado fun
92 GATHERINGS
Winter + Spring activities
62 UPLIFTING WOMEN Self confidence through adventure
94 EVENT LISTINGS
65 E XPLORE Heli skiing in Telluride to the Umbrella Bar in
96 PARTNER DIRECTORY
98 NAMASTE
Crested Butte
66 J OY IN THE JOURNEY
Dine at your destination
67 M OUNTAIN GAMES
Outdoor yoga and more this June in Vail
68 GRETCHEN BLEILER An extraordinary athlete stands for mindfulness
Mark your calendars Where to find us Cover photographer Ali Vagnini
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and sustainability
70 GEAR Rock your world out there 72 LAYER UP Base layer roundup by Bobby L’Heureux COYOGALIFEMAG.COM
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profiles / About the Cover
By kim fuller
ROCK ON,
Scotty Stoughton
photos by: Ali Vagnini
One of Colorado’s most inspiring grassroots entrepreneurs leads the way for consciousness and community
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he next time you see Scotty Stoughton, he may performing with his band on stage, working alongside his team to produce a music festival, traveling the world solo, practicing yoga next to you or stand up paddle boarding with a friend down whitewater. You may only see him for a moment, but he’ll leave you with a spark of passion. Scotty is a man who lives up to the infinite standards of a dreamer. The path he has forged for his journey has not always made for an easy ride, but as he says, “nothing great is ever accomplished if you stay within your comfort zone — it never is.” Growing up as a surfer from the Atlantic Coast, Scotty made his way to Colorado after college, grounding his fluid spirit into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. After years of both succeeding and floundering as a musician in Colorado and for a little while in California, he began honing his career as a music event producer, founding Bonfire Entertainment. Scotty started the Campout For The Cause festival in 2008, a three-day event rooted in the spirit of music, movement, community and adventure — celebrating its 10 year anniversary this June. In 2013, he founded WinterWonderGrass, a unique, boutique festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Lake Tahoe, California, featuring bluegrass, roots and string bands, craft breweries, whiskeys and local brands. “I finally realized that what I’m supposed to do is create community,” he shares. “To get people to come together, and the festivals are a big platform for that. Because I don’t want to talk to anybody; I want to talk with everybody.” After taking some time off from playing music, Scotty picked it up again and started a new band, Bonfire Dub, in 2008. He also found he way back to the water, co-founding Stand Up Paddle Colorado (SUPCO) after he fell in love with the sport. “I left surfing when I moved to Colorado to play music, so paddling was away from me for a while, and I had to come to terms with that,” he says. “After I saw someone stand up paddling in Kauai, I came back to Colorado and a couple of us started pad-
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dling. It brought me back to the thrill of the water and the connection to the water, and it also forced presence.” Scotty describes the sport as “flowing on the veins of the planet.” Always looking for his next waves of inspiration, he stand up paddled the Grand Canyon in the spring of 2016 alongside friend and SUPCO co-owner, Javier Placer. “Do I go to those places to escape? No, I go to those places to find everything,” Scotty says. “I’m not escaping anything — I’m drawn to those experiences because I know that they will assist me on my journey to bring me deeper perspective.” Have a desire for the future and goals, he adds, but don’t live for the future. And don’t look to the past to create your identity.
Scotty is committed to staying present, and with intention. “So all those things — producing, paddling and playing — it’s all about community; it’s connecting people,” shares Scotty. “It’s reconnecting, talking to people. It’s leading by example and getting outside your comfort zone. It’s being unafraid of being afraid.” Among his interests and successful endeavors, Scotty has found solace in a personal yoga practice — one that his says has taught him the true meaning and feeling of mindfulness. “I go for the teacher and for the vibe,” he explains, “and I’ll practice anywhere, anytime. I don’t care to take ownership of any one kind of yoga, cause yoga for me is about the message of truth behind yoga.” Stoughton travels often for work and for exploration, but he’s recently planted roots in Denver — a place to call home when he’s in town. He will “always remain part gypsy,” he shares, with a deep longing to travel the planet globally and locally, but now he understands the power of a home base. “Much like yoga, without the foundation, the rest is just a house of cards tempting the wind to delivery the powerful reality,” he says. “I'm always seeking community, whether it's traveling globally to Turkey, India and Bosnia or dragging my Airstream around the West,” he adds. “Then all of a sudden, by remaining open to the flow and allowing myself to find that which is headed my way authentically, I find complete peace and a deep sense of being at the right place in the right time, right here in the heart of Rino.” As he continues to build his businesses and expand his life, Scotty’s commitment is to continue as an entrepreneurial leader who fosters the spirit of connectivity. “For me, living is about combining all the elements that I’m inspired by and bringing them all together to create something that is bigger and greater,” says Scotty, “that will then inspire more and more.” +
See some of Scotty’s upcoming shows and events on page 94. @scottybonfire www.bonfirentertainment.com
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