The Apple Store police busted me.
You know the routine, right? You walk into Apple, a helpful blue-shirted employee walks up to you and puts you in the queue. This was 2011 and our first 30-Day Dare was underway. We’d promised to give away a brand spanking new iPad to our grand prize winner.
So, I found myself at the Apple Store explaining all this…we have this Dare….we’re a hot yoga studio….people are practicing like crazy…we’re going to choose a grand prize winner…the winner gets this new iPad packaged in this exquisite box (thank you, Steve Jobs), when blue shirt says to me, “So, since you aren’t the end customer, we can just get you a gift card for the amount.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Fortunately, this story ends well. I managed to score the iPad. We gave it to our happy winner. Lots of people sweat. No one got hurt. And since then, we’ve managed to give away Funky Buddha shopping sprees, free memberships, and all sorts of yoga loot. Which is why I am writing this blog about yoga loot. Because it’s May and the Dare is on and this year we’re giving away the best prize yet…but more on that in a minute.
First, I have to say to our Funky Buddha staff that May’s events have been unbelievable. In years past, the 30-Day Dare would have been the only “event” on our queue. Not so much anymore… Serious kudos to everyone involved – it’s been yoga manna from Funky Buddha Heaven.
First up was Jen W. teaching Cinco De Mayo classes en Espanol with What the Truck showing up after class to delight us with tacos. Hot yoga and tacos, seriously?! We’ve had local award winning musicians play live, right smack dab during classes. It’s like hosting a house concert and a yoga class accidentally breaks out.
Brother Adams, Nixon and Theo and Molly from Vox Vidorra all slayed. We’ve also had an incredible workshop talk from my man Micah on Taming Your Inner Critic, for when that voice in your head talks smack to you. The first two weeks of May have not only been the most attended in the history of The Dare, but also the history of The Funky Buddha! I’d say everyone is slaying it.
And now, on the website Events page, this shows up: Funky Buddha Yoga & Wine Retreat! Yes, please.
Let’s talk about this! A Yoga & Wine Retreat? Seriously?!
Think long weekend in October and amazingness that has been carefully curated by Kerri and I. The itinerary, of course, includes lots of yoga and visits to many of our favorite personal places and experiences Up North. Kerri will lead a meditation at the end of my favorite day-hike in Michigan, The Empire Bluff trail.
After that, we’ll hit up one of our favorite boutique chocolatiers, Grocers Daughter Chocolate, and many of our much-loved restaurants and wineries to end evenings sleeping at the brand new, mod Hotel Indigo on the water in downtown Traverse City. Larissa, our Yoga Director extraordinaire will be teaching the yoga. Need we say more?!
It will be an unbelievable, first-class experience all the way around. We’ve limited the number of people who can go (to keep it intimate and high in quality), so if you are interested don’t wait to sign up! Check out the details here.
Back to this month’s best-ever Dare…
One lucky-as-a-duck finisher will win a free space at the Funky Buddha Yoga & Wine retreat! It’s our gift to you for moving, sweating and breathing for 30 days straight; for just plain slaying it.
Good luck to all,
Chris
