A regular yin yoga practice stimulates the flow of energy throughout your body, enhancing each organ's function — When frustration exists, it is difficult to think or plan, much less feel inspired to make healthy choices for your body and mind. You might even notice that your digestion does ... Read More about Yin Yoga | Stimulating Energy Flow To Enhance Organ Function
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Poetry, Wonder And The Creative Mind
Give Us This Day Our Daily Disruptions: A journey into poetry, wonder, and the creative mind — You can be stripped of everything at any moment. That awareness guides me to pay attention to what I think I have in my possession. If each of our lives were a book, then a day in the life can ... Read More about Poetry, Wonder And The Creative Mind
Open Heart Flow Yoga
A gentle yoga to enhance physical and emotional flow — In celebration of the changing seasons, I offer you this slow, gentle yoga practice to twist, bend and stretch your body. When we slow things down and move in a more calm, controlled manner, that’s where the magic happens… With any ... Read More about Open Heart Flow Yoga
Jazz & Spirituality | The Mindful Music of Jack DeJohnette
For jazz legend Jack DeJohnette, music is a deeply spiritual experience — Jack DeJohnette is the kind of jazz musician who almost makes me wish the word “jazz” would dissolve for a moment — not for long, because I love it too much. But maybe just long enough that people who don’t identify ... Read More about Jazz & Spirituality | The Mindful Music of Jack DeJohnette
Office Break: 7 Minute Yoga You Can Do at Your Desk
As an Urban Zen Integrative Therapist, I am often asked to produce an “Urban Zen experience” in a corporate setting — I remember the first time I stepped into this environment at an ad agency. It surprised me to see how people reacted to having mindfulness programs incorporated into their ... Read More about Office Break: 7 Minute Yoga You Can Do at Your Desk
Yoga Inversions: Turning Ourselves Upside Down
The restorative power of yoga inversions — The Buddha said, “I am not enlightened, I am merely awake.” What does it mean to be awake? Most of us spend our lives in relative states of “un-consciousness.” Sometimes we undergo a big, dramatic, once-in-a-lifetime awakening — such as a near-death ... Read More about Yoga Inversions: Turning Ourselves Upside Down
Maggie Wheeler | The Yoga of Song
Actress Maggie Wheeler finds a deeper calling in leading communal singing — "I used to say, 'I act for my supper and I sing for my soul.'" Maggie Wheeler is describing her bifurcated career as a successful actor (most notably in long-running roles in the sitcoms Friends and Everybody ... Read More about Maggie Wheeler | The Yoga of Song
Minding Your Core | Pilates with Renata Halaska
A restorative 25 minute Pilates routine for your core which you ca do at home — If you are anything like me, you have at one time or another, falsely believed that it’s not a “real” work out unless you run a few miles and sweat like a pig. I guess you never had back pain or have taken a ... Read More about Minding Your Core | Pilates with Renata Halaska
Stillness In The Leap | 5 Minute Yoga
Alleviate stress and find inner peace with this 5 minute yoga routine that you can do anywhere — Taking the leap of faith requires courage, awareness, and belief in ones own journey. To know what it is you’re being asked to perform moves you to a point of change. For example, ... Read More about Stillness In The Leap | 5 Minute Yoga
Interview: Congressman Tim Ryan | A Mindful Revolution
Congressman Tim Ryan Interview by Kristen Noel Warren, Ohio, January 4, 2015 Photographs by Bill Miles Real food is not only about agriculture and nutrition. It’s about a way of life that connects us back to the earth, to each other, to our communities, and to what really matters. It’s ... Read More about Interview: Congressman Tim Ryan | A Mindful Revolution
Quieting the Noisy Mind: The First Step for Effective Meditation
Quieting your mind is the first step for effective meditation, and can be learned with conscious practice — here are some guided meditations to help — Ah, how to quiet the mind!? The number one response I get when I tell people that I'm a meditation and blissful wellness guide is, "I've tried ... Read More about Quieting the Noisy Mind: The First Step for Effective Meditation
Practicing Patience — Where Has the Virtue Gone?
Patience is a virtue which can cultivate peace and even compassion — How many of us remember the adage: Patience is a virtue? A virtue, for those who need a reminder, is defined as “a behavior of high moral standards.” Patience is defined as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, ... Read More about Practicing Patience — Where Has the Virtue Gone?
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