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    10 Tips When Practicing Arm Balances

    Author Gabrielle DeFusco

    Arm balances such as crow, side crow, peacock, flying pigeon, and eight angle (just to name a few), are a group of yoga poses that can be challenging, but they can also be very fun! 
  • Ahimsa and the Yoga of Motherhood
    Ahimsa and the Yoga of Motherhood

    Author Rachel Voss

    I became a single mother before my son turned two-years-old. As the primary parent, most of what he would learn in the formative years of his life would come from me. Like many parents of little boys, I want my son to be strong, confident and have some athletic prowess. I long ago accepted that I would not be able to teach him how to be a man, but I certainly could teach him how to be a kind and decent human being. This has been a personal mission since 2007; the year my son came into my life.
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    For the Breathing Ones: A Poem

    Author ava bird

    For the Breathing Ones: A Poem, by ava bird
  • What Injury Can Teach Us
    What Injury Can Teach Us

    Author Eimear Laffan

    Yoga injuries have been occupying my body of late. I have practiced yoga regularly for five years, but the last three months have been noteworthy in terms of injuries. Injury number one: I hurt my left knee trying to do bound lotus. I was so close, my toe was right there. Have you ever seen that bumper sticker that says 'put your ego on a leash?' Unfortunately, seeing it does not equate to the application of said advice
  • A Short Meditation for Moms
    A Short Meditation for Moms

    Author Danielle Mika Nagel

    As Mother’s Day recently came and went, I felt compelled to share my thoughts on motherhood and how yoga and meditation has helped me breathe a little deeper. As moms, our days start pretty early, usually before 6am, regardless of what we did the night before. And so the race begins, making breakfast, packing lunches, getting the kids dressed, hair and teeth brushed, last minute homework, etc., all before 7:45am when I drop them off at daycare and make my way to work. I see other working moms dropping their kids off, rushing from daycare to work, completely frazzled. I can relate and see my own tendencies in them. But I ask myself, why? Why are we rushing? Why can’t we be more present when we move through these daily rituals?
  • Yoga Tips for Mindful Moms
    Yoga Tips for Mindful Moms

    Author Betty Riaz

    Moms sometimes get a bad rap.  Assumptions are made if you are Mom: you are too busy, too worried, too flustered, too unprepared. Sometimes people forget that there’s a person—and personality—behind the parent.
  • Yoga and Your Emotions
    Yoga and Your Emotions

    Author Nicole Aracki

    I will never forget the first time I cried during a yoga class. It was during Fish Pose (Matsyasana), and I was breathing deeply and slowly, when all of a sudden I felt as though my heart might burst through my chest. Tears began streaming down my cheeks, but I kept breathing into my heart, finally coming to rest on the floor again. After class, I confessed to my teacher what had happened, and she told me it was normal to have emotions surface during a pose. I understand now that it is almost bound to happen in a big heart opener like Matsyasana.
  • Mountain Pose for Moms
    Mountain Pose for Moms

    Author Dr Carla Cupido

    Once upon a pregnant time, it surely seemed as though your body could not possibly deal with one more single strain and not a bit more stress; but now as a mom, those memories have faded into the distant past and the reality of your current and possibly tougher Sherpa-like duties has settled in. Despite babies being little and light when they are first born; they grow faster than we wish. It is not just their size that proves challenging, but also the perfectly preposterous positions you may find yourself in while playing mommy. Moving directly from pregnancy into motherhood leaves no time to press your body’s reset button. Insert: the value of Tadasana, otherwise known as Mountain Pose, for the pregnant and the parent.