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May 18th, 2013

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Detoxing the Mind

Ever wonder why we spend so much time worrying about spring cleaning, purging our overabundance of things, reorganizing our homes,......

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    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.
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    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.
  • New Mama Yoga in 5 Baby Steps
    New Mama Yoga in 5 Baby Steps

    Author Karen Springsteen

    Seven months into new mommyhood, I’ve barely stepped onto my mat. I see it every day, rolled up there next to the television. My yoga videos sit mocking me on the bookshelf. As I pump for work, I watch my husband do his morning asanas with our baby crawling through his arms and legs in the most adorable way. I am reverent, but I am also jealous. I want to get my hot power flow back on. I want to return to my days of hour-and-a-half-long sessions of chaturangas, plank, boat, and chair.
  • The Benefits of Yoga for Kids
    The Benefits of Yoga for Kids

    Author Maggie Franz

    Yoga is such a great lifestyle – just think about it, we get so many different benefits from our practice: deep and healthy breathing, flexibility, strengthening our muscles and tendons, toning our nervous system, regulating our digestive system, increasing our circulation, lubricating our joints, relieving stress and anxiety, learning patience with ourselves and the world, learning self acceptance. The benefits are seemingly endless.  Now think about what your life would be like if we had learned or received all of this when we were younger?  How might our lives be different if as a kid we learned how to deal with stress? Stress and anxiety are the cause of a number of health problems, and even soreness in our muscles.  If we learn yoga, and what it teaches us about our lives and our bodies, we can live happier, healthier lives.  Being a kid can be stressful, there are a lot of situations where we are scared, sad, nervous or stressed, times when we are embarrassed or scared to fail in front of our peers.  Yoga can help with all of these times and emotions.
  • Dive Below the Surface of Your Practice
    Dive Below the Surface of Your Practice

    Author Dan Clement

    How does hatha yoga work? I’ve asked myself this question more than once, both when I practice and when I teach.  We have busy lives.  We think busy is actually a good thing, because busy means in demand and busy means money.  But it also means fragmented attention.  The English comedy troupe Monty Python had a skit involving an entrepreneur trying to sell string through an advertising firm.  He has 122,000 miles of string...  Cut into 3 inch lengths.  Our attention span is like that.  When awareness is fragmented it has little momentum, and momentum is needed to dive below the superficial aspects of our lives.
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    3 Ways Yoga Can Help You Let Go

    Author Lori Myles-Carullo

    Yoga has taught me a great many lessons in our twenty-year love affair, and for that I am eternally grateful. One of the greatest gifts this multi-dimensional practice has blessed me with is a greater capacity to both hold on and let go.
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    Balance for Beginners in Ashtanga Yoga Standing Postures

    Author Kino MacGregor

    Balance is first and foremost a state of mind. After the inner calm is established the physical expression of balance in yoga postures appears. If you lose your balanced mind while attempting anything in yoga you defeat the entire purpose of the practice. Even if you manage to squeeze and tense your body into the appearance of balance if the inner world is not calm then yoga is not happening in a meaningful sense. When attempting any of the standing and balancing postures in the Asthanga Yoga method remember that balance comes from the inner world first. 
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    Tai Chi for Your Yoga Practice

    Author Dan Kleiman

    We often hear about long distance runners who allow the endorphins that they are generating to carry them to a different mental state during the run. Similar stories are found in the martial arts community when masters punch through piles of bricks and thick boards by visualizing their hand on the other side. There are also many stories of people performing amazing feats of strength and endurance in extremely stressful circumstances. While there are many different words that we can use to describe these phenomena, in its essence it boils down to people using dormant resources to direct the energies in our bodies.