Bringing awareness to your thoughts allows you to identify unserving ones and replace them with thoughts that empower you — Recently a friend asked me, “what is mind yoga?” I responded that it’s thinking deeply about something you just read, heard or saw. It’s realizing what we’re thinking ... Read More about Mind Yoga | Why and How to Bring Awareness to Your Thoughts
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Brain Reset: Gentle Breathwork to Calm Your Nervous System and Mind
Yoga master Carter Miles guides you through a soothing breathing routine to reduce stress and anxiety and restore emotional balance — Ten minutes...that's all it takes for this gentle breathwork to calm and restore your brain. Of course, you can repeat it as often as you like. If you find ... Read More about Brain Reset: Gentle Breathwork to Calm Your Nervous System and Mind
A Yoga Practice for Forgiveness
Whether we need to forgive ourselves or others, it’s important that we process our healing not just in our minds, but in our bodies. — Whether we need to forgive ourselves or others, it’s important that we process our healing not just in our minds, but in our bodies. So much of our past trauma ... Read More about A Yoga Practice for Forgiveness
Just Breathe: Using Breathwork to Reduce Stress, Calm the Mind and Relax the Body
Especially in this chaotic time, having tools to relieve stress is essential for your wellbeing, and few practices are as potent as breathwork — After such an intense year and 2021 feeling like it’s also going to be an emotional rollercoaster, many people are feeling stressed out and ... Read More about Just Breathe: Using Breathwork to Reduce Stress, Calm the Mind and Relax the Body
Yoga for Sciatica: Seven Poses to Relieve Lower Back Pain
Is yoga beneficial for sciatica? Yes! Here are the 7 best yoga poses for sciatica pain — If you have sciatica, you know how challenging it can be to get through daily life without pain. But there is a solution that could help relieve your pain and assist your recovery. Yoga is ... Read More about Yoga for Sciatica: Seven Poses to Relieve Lower Back Pain
A Mindful Approach to Restoring Your Balance in Body, Mind and Spirit
Finding balance — physical and emotional — is a natural state of being at all life stages, but with age and responsibilities, it requires conscious attention — From our first steps, each memorable moment of our lives leads us to find our balance. As parents, we watch with bated breath as our ... Read More about A Mindful Approach to Restoring Your Balance in Body, Mind and Spirit
Finding Greater Meaning in Life Through Mindfulness, Stillness & Single Tasking
A journey of finding and redefining meaning, harnessing mindfulness, and intentional living, started with a single book — Flying home to North Carolina from Denver in February 2017, I held in my hands a copy of James Allen’s book, As a Man Thinketh. The purpose of my trip had been to pay ... Read More about Finding Greater Meaning in Life Through Mindfulness, Stillness & Single Tasking
5 Ways Yoga Can Benefit Your Kidneys
Yoga is much more than a mental and physical recharge; it’s a way to integrate your body and keep everything functioning properly… including your kidneys — Why did you start practicing yoga? Was it for the workout? The community? The mental reset and recharge? For me, it was all of the ... Read More about 5 Ways Yoga Can Benefit Your Kidneys
5 World Destinations for Exploring Mindfulness, Meditation and Nature
Sometimes we need more than a break from routine — we need an entirely new environment to open our mind, body and spirit — With so many social and work-related obligations we deal with on a daily basis, it’s common to simply feel exhausted and overwhelmed. Some of us just feel like running ... Read More about 5 World Destinations for Exploring Mindfulness, Meditation and Nature
Movement for the Mind: How Running Reduces Depression & Anxiety Symptoms
While all exercise can have beneficial effects for mental health, running is particularly well-suited for improving depression and anxiety — For many people I know, running is meditation. It soothes and calms their mind, keeping themselves focused only on the steps they’re taking and the ... Read More about Movement for the Mind: How Running Reduces Depression & Anxiety Symptoms
Off The Mat, Into The Kitchen: Bringing Mindfulness to Our Plate
Renowned yoga teachers connect their yogic philosophy to their plates, creating simplicity, ceremony and holistic health (plus 2 yummy recipes!) _ Yoga teaches us to examine and question life, to search our hearts and minds regularly, and to use our intellect for spiritual study and growth. ... Read More about Off The Mat, Into The Kitchen: Bringing Mindfulness to Our Plate
How Yoga Can Help You Keep Your Balance During Divorce
Yoga is an excellent mind/body practice; doing a couple of poses each day can help you decrease stress and keep your emotional balance during divorce — Divorce statistics are devastating. According to Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, every 13 seconds there’s a divorce in the U.S. This results ... Read More about How Yoga Can Help You Keep Your Balance During Divorce