Free Yoga classes at UMD Griggs Field for Grandma's Marathon weekend!
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Free Yoga classes at UMD Griggs Field for Grandma's Marathon weekend!

We are THRILLED to announce our partnership with University of Minnesota, Duluth to host two free yoga classes on Grandma’s Marathon weekend! Open to runners and the community.

Whether you are running, cheering, or you simply live in the area and want to join the energy of a large group of humans practicing yoga on the UMD football field - please join us!

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Announcing 2027 Winter Retreats!
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Announcing 2027 Winter Retreats!

You know I love a good plan. We are offering an early bird registration discount this year, and that window is right around the corner!

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Retreat Recap: in defense of poetry
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Retreat Recap: in defense of poetry

Poetry, wildfires, peace, and nature. Holding two buckets (at least) at once to find balance. Read more about our retreat recap from our Lake Life Yoga Retreat at Sugar Lake Lodge.

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Path to Pratyahara
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Path to Pratyahara

I don’t know about you, but on a daily basis, I’m absolutely bombarded by external stimuli.  I have to work fairly hard to keep all that “noise” at bay. Frankly my own thoughts can sometimes be unhelpful noise if I’m not bringing mindful awareness to it.  

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Summer with Intention
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Summer with Intention

A Minnesota summer typically rushes in fast and furious. We’ve waited endless months for the open lakes, return of loons, campfires with starry backdrops, and seemingly endless supply of vitamin d.

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We’re on the news!
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

We’re on the news!

Midwest Access in Rochester, MN sought us out for a news story! Check out the full interview with Amanda.

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Announcing Flow -our Fall Retreat
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Announcing Flow -our Fall Retreat

Our Autumn yoga retreat is a long, relaxing exhale. A delightful mix of yoga, meditation, mindful outdoor adventures, and specialty workshops.

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Stepping out of my cocoon
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Stepping out of my cocoon

I’ve wintered fully.  Gotten myself cozy, comfortable, and rested. Now’s the time where I feel I need to “force” myself a bit to change it up. 

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We came in a little HOT. A once-in-ten-years party.
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

We came in a little HOT. A once-in-ten-years party.

For our 10-year shindig, we pulled out all the stops. We came in a little HOT with a full 90s party, neon, dancing in radical snow gear (as sexy as that can possibly be), and a room full of women singing along to 90s ballads.

The real magic of Boreal Bliss is the relationships. Women find each other at a retreat, go back to their lives, and then, sometimes years later, meet again and pick right back up.

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Two Beautiful Ways to Retreat This May
Bryana Cook Bryana Cook

Two Beautiful Ways to Retreat This May

There’s something about May in northern Minnesota. The light stretches longer. The lakes begin to shimmer again. The air carries that subtle promise of summer.

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Seasonal Delusion, A Minnesota Guide
Amanda Thoe Amanda Thoe

Seasonal Delusion, A Minnesota Guide

There have been moments when I’ve been genuinely horrified by my own relationship with the temperature. As winter stretches on and the whimsy wears thin, Minnesotans quietly renegotiate what “cold” actually means. This is a loving, slightly unhinged guide to our seasonal delusions; from denial and fatalism to the euphoric forgetting that arrives the moment it hits 35 degrees.

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Two women working at a wooden table with papers and writing supplies in a rustic room with large windows.
Group of people practicing yoga outdoors on a grassy field during sunset.
Indoor scene with a bed covered by a colorful, patterned quilt, a black bag, a rolled blanket, and wooden blocks on a blue mat. In the background, a wood stove with a fire inside is against a wooden-paneled wall, and a window with curtains is to the left.