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Taking a Plank Challenge, 2 New Tips To Hold Your Plank For Longer...

  Since I chose to get on board with one of our favorite Ambassador's challenges #PlankWithBex AKA Rebekah Borucki, the go-to-fitness-is-fun guru, I landed my first plank at 2m:16s and 4 days later I'm at 2m:30s. For us at Plank®, every pose or physical activity can be taken to the next level by incorporating a little Ridiculous Body Awareness™ aka Yoga. Thus, in addition to the tips I sent to Bex, I use a plethora of yoga tools...
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• Doreen Hing

Support this documentarty, BKS Iyengar the original master of Ridiculous Body Awareness AKA yoga...

At Plank®, we make no bones about sharing that BKS Iyengar's methodology is foundational to inspire us to create yoga mats that teach the practioner how to create more solid body-to-mat-to-mind connections, thus stronger foundations... We call it Ridiculous Body Awareness™ AKA yoga... What I love about an Iyengar practice, is that once you think you've mastered a pose, there is still more to learn. Thus if you think you know what grounded technology is, think...
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• Doreen Hing

Yoga and Work. The Sanity Saver.

After an extended summer holiday weekend, most of us will be back at the grind, tackling what we didn’t complete earlier and stressing before lunch break just how to manage it all. In a recent Yoga Journal Magazine story, writer Nancy Wilson shares here insight on yoga in the workplace - downward dog at your desk may save you from burnout, and corporations are discovering adding yoga as a resource for employees to balance their...
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• Doreen Hing

Yoga as Embodiment

Yoga has become a mainstream addiction in the North American culture. Many seek it out for its life enhancing, body image enhancing, or just plain feel good appeal. Some have the impression that yoga is easy, others experience it as hard, and others see it as an opportunity to challenge oneself mentally and physically. Even the billion dollar weight loss industry has become obsessed with the promise of Yoga to trim inches and tone, especially...
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• Doreen Hing

The Once Reluctant Yogini

To look at me you would never suspect that I live with a spinal cord injury. I contracted paralytic polio when I was 5 years old in one of the last polio epidemics in the United States. Polio was  known as “the AIDS of its day”. I was shunned by classmates and grew to despise and disconnect from my body. Over four years ago now, at the age of 53,  I was diagnosed with post...
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• Doreen Hing

A Yogini is Born

Our Guest Planker Angela author of Cloud of Chaos ~ I was sitting at a bar with a friend of mine, Manhattan in hand, and I commented that I would really love to have a yoga body. Pause to sip Manhattan. Then I said, "I guess that means I need to start doing yoga." Many years ago I did yoga on a pretty regular basis. I had a mat at home, which I used to...
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• Doreen Hing

This. Is. Plank.

Welcome! This blog has been a long time coming but in a very short period, we at Plank have rallied together to relaunch the most audaciously fabulous line of yoga products in the industry. A unique hybrid of fashion meets function, the Plank yoga brand combines cheeky Brit humor with a line of practical yet irresistibly stylish yoga mats and accessories designer to appeal to the devout yogi and everyone in between. Each day, week and...
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• Doreen Hing

She's the One.

Here's a bit about the creator and founder of Plank, Doreen Hing... you can also follow Doreen's passion, initiative, projects and audacious writing on her own blog, "The Well Heeled Guru" and on her Facebook and Twitter pages. An exerpt taken from Doreen's own blog..."The Well-Heeled Guru is seen as the go-to person for getting people into yoga, however, this is not how she prefers to acknowledged. The Well-Heeled Guru’s mission is for people to...
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• Doreen Hing

Plank People

Our fans, followers, the random celeb sighting... just a few of our Plank Peeps.
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• Doreen Hing

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