Love your life! 1. Contemplate. Meditation quiets a busy mind and cultivates a witness who can watch what’s happening in your life with a bit of emotional distance. The benefits are enormous—many meditators say they have more clarity, experience less anxiety, and feel better physically. Most of
Read more →Core strength is critical for injury prevention in sports and asana, and it primes us to sit in meditation and enjoy yoga’s mental and spiritual benefits. But for true core strength, we need to be strong not just in the abdominal muscles or in the back but
Read more →Any sort of training will require your comfort with discomfort. Without such discomfort, we’d never progress in our physical and mental training. There will naturally be discomfort as we explore our edges. But when we bear too much discomfort and push beyond safe boundaries, we can damage
Read more →Having a clear intention and clear goals is important not just for professional athletes or CEOs, but for sports in general and for yoga practice, as well. Intention and goals are different. Intention includes your motivation for the practice: the attitude you want to cultivate, the feeling
Read more →It’s that time again: it’s getting darker earlier, and you’re spending more time inside around other people. Perhaps yoga classes are more crowded, and there is always one person who’s sneezing or coughing. It raises the question of how your yoga practice might keep you healthier during
Read more →Anyone who does yoga can become in tune with their body, and one of the benefits of becoming a certified yoga teacher, is enhancing that skill even further. Your relationship with your body will become so much better once you incorporat yoga into my life as a
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