New recommended session

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Alejandro

There are virtually infinite ways in which you can practice Yoga.

This is one of the key ideas that motivated us to create Coostom – a place where you can create your own sessions, based on what you need and want to get out of Yoga.

When you use Coostom to create your session, you can start with a blank canvas (my favorite way), or with a recommended session. These are sequences we have put together to reflect common and balanced sessions for beginners and intermediate yogis.

Today we added a session created by our friend Gillian Swan.

Gillian is an instructor from Toronto, who has started collaborating with Coostom – and we’re thrilled she has. She has tremendous passion for her work with Yoga, and was open and ready to share her ideas about Coostom’s potential for students and instructors alike.

Give her session a try, it’s as simple as:

Log into Coostom
Click on New Session
Click on let us suggest a session
Select Gillian’s session
Hit Save and Play

And if you haven’t done so yet, check out her blog and her twitter.

Coostom is Walking the Walk

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Alejandro

Did you know 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water?

Did you know 2.6 billion people live without basic sanitation?

Just imagine that:

no drinking
no cooking
no sink
no shower
no dishes
no laundry
no nothing

Except, of course, if you walk to the nearest river/well/etc and carry back your share. On your shoulders.

We want to help change this reality.

WaterCan/EauVive has been working for many years to help bring clean water to communities around the globe, particularly in Africa. This year’s Aveda Walk for Water, which benefits WaterCan/EauVive has as a mission to raise as much money as possible to save lives in East African communities by creating projects that provide clean water and education.

What Coostom is doing

Coostom will be participating in a 6km walk to raise awareness and funds to support WaterCan endeavours in East Africa. Why 6km? Because that’s the average distance that people in Africa have to walk to get to a water source.

A walk might seem like a small thing, but the more people are conscious of the huge difficulties people go through around the world, the more motivated we’ll be to find ways to help others build sustainable and rich communities.

Coostom needs your help!

So, here are ways in which you can help right now:

Join the team! The best way to participate is to walk with us this April 22nd. We’ll have a great time, you’ll get to hang out with really cool people, and the exercise never hurts! There’s even a 7 month old baby in the team, how cool is that?!
Make a donation to the Coostom team: If you can’t join us, you can make a direct donation to the cause here. 100% goes to the cause, and your support will be encouraging us to keep being a part of these initiatives.
Buy a Coostom T-shirt or Sticker: If you want to support both WaterCan and Coostom at the same time, you can buy our T-shirts and/or stickers. Your contribution will cover the costs, and provide a little extra to be donated to W4W. Because of timing, we’ll have to do this old fashion: contact us at team@coostom.com and we’ll take care of you.

Of course, you can combine more than one of the above, which will make us extra happy!

Finally, you can help us by spreading the word and directing people to our blog so that they too can support this great cause:

http://coostom.com/blog/walk/

Coostom is pinning

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Alejandro

We’re the new kid on the block, and we’re looking for friends. What do you do to find friends? You go to where others hang out, like Facebook, Twitter, and – more recently – Pinterest.

Each social network offers a different experience. Let’s put it this way:

With Facebook, you’re keeping in touch with people you know, mainly by sharing your photos and status with them.

With Twitter, you connect with people you may or may not know by sending short lines about what you’re up to and what you find interesting, and retweetting what others share.

With Pinterest, however, you become the curator of an online gallery. Most of your activity comes from finding photos you like anywhere on the web, and then pinning those to your boards. Your Pinterest profile becomes your personal gallery where you are showing to others the stuff you like, by means of other people’s great photos.

Of the three, Pinterest is the newest for us, but we’re finding it quite addictive. It’s great to spend time searching for great photos, to then make them ours by pinning them to our boards.

So, take a look at our Pinterest page and tell us what you think (and if you haven’t, check out our Facebook and Twitter pages as well). Follow us, share the love, and let more and more people know and appreciate Yoga!

Coostom Yoga is now live!

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Alejandro

Awaking After months of hard work and collaboration with a fabulous team of people, Coostom Yoga is now open to the public.

Out of the many lessons we’ve learned, there’s one that stands out: it feels great to build something you’re passionate about. We love yoga, and creating something that can help others practice more often is just exhilarating!

We’d love to tell you a thousand great things about Coostom, but we rather you find out for yourself. So go take a look, try the application for free, and let us know what you think.

If you want to give us an extra hand, the best you can do for us is to share Coostom with your friends through Twitter, Facebook, email or any other means you’d like. The more the merrier!

We can’t wait to have you practice with us!

The Coostom Yoga Team.