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July 30, 2010
Yoga Lizard:
Inflate your zafu,
deflate your ego
deflate your ego
Inflatable zafus are the ultimate portable meditation cushion. Compact and light.
| Exclusive Interview with Chi Moore |
| Written by Sean | ||||
Page 1 of 2  Recently we at Yoga Lizard had the great pleasure of meeting and interviewing a truly wonderful person and talented entrepreneur Chi Moore. Chi has taken his love of creating, his innate talent for design and style to produce a line of comfortable and beautiful Zafu cushions. His designs and fabrics are a reflection of his deep yogic focus and warm compassion. The following conversation took place between Chi and Yoga Lizard co founder Sean Kelley.
S.K. - Hi Chi, it is a pleasure to be conversing with you today. You seem to be in fantastic shape, what do you do to keep yourself fit?
Chi - Thank you Sean for the compliment. For me a feeling of fitness and health encompasses many aspects - a sense of cultivating peacefulness, working emotionally and mentally to be balanced and compassionate, inner body charging to gain vitality, doing good physical work that’s hard but done mindfully, playing outside my usual bounds, and eating the gardens bounty to put sunshine in my body.
S.K. - How long have you been practicing yoga?
Chi - Yoga for me started mid 1990’s in a class at OSU that we called Heidi yoga - she was such a sweet teacher. When I moved to Alaska I was lucky to continue learning with an excellent Iyengar teacher in Anchorage, Lynn Minton. One week she really called on us to go beyond our bounds by transforming our yoga practice into dance.
S.K. - What benefits have you gotten out of yoga?
Chi - Wow, every aspect of my life gets touched as I further open that treasure chest. My body's ability to ward off sickness and heal quickly from injuries has been an invaluable blessing. An increased perception of body energy and movement is a gift I’m happy to share with others, and is very useful in my pillow making business when it comes to finding the right pillow to soothe someone. There’s also a year by year increasing ability to actually see the beauty of spirit working in our world.
S.K. - What got you started in making organic pillows?
Chi - That’s funny, it’s been 13 years of making pillows and it started because I wanted to hand make some Christmas gifts for my family ( I was a very low income college student). After the compliments and joyful demand for more, I had a lovely artistic friend who encouraged me to bring them to the Portland Saturday Market. What fun to interact with all those artists and to meet a nonstop stream of customers, not just from Portland, but truly from all over the world. The fun, but also the appreciation and usefulness of my work encouraged me to continue on.
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