UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

BEAT THE WINTER BLUES WITH YOGA
-Saturday, January 30, Yoga Trek Center in Oak Park
-Friday, February 12, Beverly Yoga Center in Chicago
-Saturday, February 27, Creative Therapeutics in DeKalb


DHARMA MITTRA VINYASA YOGA: MAHA SADHANA
-Friday, March 12, YogaOne Studio in Milwaukee
-Saturday, March 13, Jewel in the Lotus in Madison
-Sunday, March 14, Fixe Self Center in Hinsdale
-Saturday, March 20, YogaNow in Chicago

Click here for workshop details.



NEW CLASSES IN 2010!

-Dharma Mittra Yoga (Multi-Level) Thurs 10-11:30AM at YogaNow Gold Coast. Starts 1/​14.

-Dharma Mittra Yoga (Level I-II) Fri 10-11AM at DePaul Univ. (Jan. 15 to Feb. 5 and Feb. 19 to March 12; pre-registration required).





Click on the picture to read Cara's recent Yoga Chicago article about Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois , who passed last May.


Cara completed Dharma Mittra's advanced teacher training program. Click on the image to read her Yoga Chicago article about this life-changing experience.


This photo was taken at the famous Balaji temple in South India. Click on the image to read about Cara's recent pilgrimage to this amazing place.


Cara attended the grand opening of Pattabhi Jois's shala in Florida. Click on the image to read her article.




Cara's essay about her yogic lifestyle aired on the Chicago Public Radio program "Eight Forty-Eight." Click here to hear.





The Dalai Lama made a rare appearance at Millennium Park in 2007. Cara's article about his speech can be found here.





In India, the word "namaste" is considered an informal greeting. So why do so many American yoga teachers say it at the end of class? What do they think they're saying? Click here to read Cara's article in Yoga Chicago.





Cara wrote about performance for DK's Real City guide to Chicago -- an insider's look at the best places to see live music, drama, poetry and performance art. Click on the image for more.




ABOUT CARA

Cara Jepsen has been publishing her writing since junior high school and teaching yoga since 1998. Her byline has appeared in The (UK) Guardian, Salon, Brink.com, Billboard, Book, Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, NewCity, and Crain’s Chicago Business. She's the media columnist for the Illinois Entertainer, and for eight years she wrote the Chicago Reader's Days of the Week Calendar. She also contributed chapters to DK's Real City Chicago guide and to SPIN Underground USA.

Her radio essays air on the WBEZ-FM program Eight Forty-Eight, and she was a yoga columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. Her India diaries, restaurant reviews and cartoon, "On the Mat," appear in Yoga Chicago magazine.

She holds a B.A. in sociology and communications from Lake Forest College and a Master's Degree in journalism from Columbia College.

She divides her time between Chicago, India and New York City.

WRITER

Yoga Articles
Mysore Diary, 2002
Cara's first trip to India
Mysore Diary, 2004
A return to India
Mysore Diary 2006
Feels Like the Third TIme
Mysore Diary 2007
Another month in India
Mysore Diary 2008
Cara's most recent trip to India
Essays
Amma -- Over 20 Million Hugged
In which the Author receives a Hug from a Saint
New York Diary
A first-person account of 9/11
Mars and Venus are Bored Tonight
Dating the John Gray way
The Naked Word: Nothing Livens Up a Poetry Reading Like a Nice Pair of Cans
In which The Author attends a naked poetry slam... and lives to tell The Tale
Hollywood's Golden Age
From "Bathroom Frivolities" to "Gladiator," a semi-comprehensive guide to film's greatest pee scenes.

Yoga Teacher


Cara teaches all levels of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Dharma Mittra Yoga (a classical hatha style) and vinyasa flow. She is available for private and workplace lessons, and teaches regularly at the Chicago Yoga Center, YogaNow,Yoga Trek Center and area health clubs. Click here for her schedule.