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Incorporating Yoga into Your Lifestyle Post 50: Dos & Donts
Yoga benefits the body, mind, and spirit. It enhances your flexibility, allows you to practice mindfulness, and helps you maintain or lose weight. It is a practice that works to your benefit without you having to overexert yourself. But, you may be wondering if you...
What to Look for in an Online Yoga Studio
Yoga has become increasingly popular as people look for practices to release tensions, stress, and other feelings of dis-ease. In the past few years, we have even seen the emergence of many online yoga studios. With so many options to choose from, you might find...
Wellness and Technology in Current Times
The wellness industry has become hugely popular, especially during a time when stress and tensions grew to a high. When everyone went indoors, the need for wellness still existed but it needed a technological upgrade to allow for those not physically close to be able...
Is Virtual Yoga Therapy Possible?
In the past couple of years, almost everything has shifted to the online world. Everything from online yoga classes to virtual yoga therapy became accessible at any time from anywhere. This has created space for many people to be able to access services that they may...
Satya | Yama
Satya, which translates into truthfulness, is the second Yama of the Eight Limbed Path. The Eight Limbed Path, also referred to as the Eight Limbs of Yoga, come from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and provide guidance for practicing yogis on how to live a meaningful,...
Grounding Practices
There are times in our lives when we need a little bit of grounding, be you a young and new yogi or a seasoned veteran yogi. You might feel as though you’re moving quickly and can’t catch your breath, or may you feel as if you are stuck in the thinking phase and...
What Is Meditation From A Yogic Perspective
Meditation is a state of being rather than an act; this means that it isn’t possible to be bad at it. There are many different types of meditation that have a myriad of benefits from calming the mind to energizing the practitioner for the day. In this post on an Introduction to Meditation, as one of the eight limbs of the eight limbed path of yoga, is an important aspect of personal practice. When we get still enough and quiet enough, we create space for true union, or samadhi.
Self Compassion
As yogis and yoga teachers, most of us know well the feeling of being compassionate and holding space for others. While this is a beautiful benefit of teaching yoga, it is also important to turn around, practice self compassion and hold space for oneself. The need to...
Sequencing Themes for Restorative & Yin Yoga
There are many ways in which you can prepare yin and restorative yoga class themes. The theme that you choose for your sequence can depend on a few different factors: time of day, type of class, and your audience. Your theme can be simple or complex and can affect any...
An Introduction to Mudras
Mudras have always been part of the ancient traditions of yoga. Mudra means “seal” or “attitude” in Sanskrit and when the word is broken into parts it can be translated as “to move towards delight.” Mudras are subtle and delicate movements of the hands, face, or...
Yama | Ahimsa
Ahimsa, which translates into non-violence or non-harming, is the first Yama in the Eight-Limbed Path of Yoga as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, an ancient scripture often resourced by yoga schools in their online yoga teacher training programs. The Eight...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are an ancient yogic text that outlines a path to self realization through the eight-limbed path of yoga of yoga. Most 200-hour online yoga teacher training programs, as well as in-person 200 YTT, will include The Yoga Sutras as...
Mental Fluctuations & Yoga
There is something about yoga that keeps people coming back to the practice. Regardless of what brings them into class, they keep coming back because of the effects that a yoga practice can have on the practitioner. A lot of practitioners report feelings of peace,...
Mercury in Retrograde
A common thing to hear these days is the planet Mercury getting the blame when things go awry. This is something that is repeated by those who practice astrology and the layman, alike. People complain that the planet is in retrograde, throwing everything out of whack....