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The Esoteric Depths of Yoga Nidra

The Esoteric Depths of Yoga Nidra

Everything you can see, feel, and experience is made up of energy. All matter, all experiences, all sensations, all life-giving and autonomic functions are carried out through energy’s innate intelligence in accordance with universal law. This means that the same...

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Creating an Internal, Safe Space for Healing with Yoga Nidra

Creating an Internal, Safe Space for Healing with Yoga Nidra

Trauma is injury to the nervous system. The impact of the event flooded our systems with too much, too fast, too soon. Without the right tools, time and space to make sense of the event and assimilate, the unresolved memory replays itself over and over again inside...

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Replenish and Re-energize with Yoga Nidra

Replenish and Re-energize with Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is a practice that can help replenish and re-energize our systems in real time, helping to offset the inherent risks associated with chronic, long-term stress accumulation. Not all stress is bad and can be as simple as a demand on the system that propels us...

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Stress & Stress-Related Symptoms

Stress & Stress-Related Symptoms

Unchecked chronic stress eventually creates the appropriate conditions for stress-related imbalances to show up in various forms, often in clusters such as anxiety and insomnia, chronic pain and immune disorders, digestive problems and brain fog. We know these...

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Side Effects of Liberation

Side Effects of Liberation

(Image: Dr. Liz in full camel in 2010.) Yoga is a practice of liberation. It is not a practice of reducing stress, easing pain, eating right, sleeping, or improving mental health. Yet, yoga does all these good things. They’re side effects of liberation. I spent the...

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Where physical flexibility ends, physical, mental, and emotional balance and peace of mind begins. Western yoga will survive the ebb from the first wave of popularity if it matures and evolves by returning to its roots in the East.

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Has Yoga Reached Its Natural Flexibility Edge?

by Heather Indu Arena Where physical flexibility ends, physical, mental, and emotional balance and peace of mind begins. Western yoga will survive the ebb from the first wave of popularity if it matures and evolves by returning to its roots in the East. There has been...

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Make Your New Year’s Resolution – Minus the Guilt

Make Your New Year’s Resolution – Minus the Guilt

How many of us have told ourselves year after year, “Starting Jan 2nd I’m going to lose that extra 10 lbs.,” or “I’ll stop eating sugar.” Maybe we even succeed – for a month or two. Then perhaps we have to work overtime and miss a few days at the gym. We go to a party...

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Balance Your Energy With Hatha Yoga

Balance Your Energy With Hatha Yoga

Anatomy of Energy The energy system of the body consists of the chakras and in the center of the chakras there is a central channel called the Shushumna. There are 2 sides of this energy system called Pingala and Ida and when they are in balance the energy moves to...

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3 Yoga Poses for Anxiety Relief

3 Yoga Poses for Anxiety Relief

Yoga is not just good for your body. Every time you practice yoga, you are building your immunity to anxiety and stress. Here are the 3 best yoga poses for anxiety relief.

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Yoga Therapy: A “Sensation-al” Experience

Yoga Therapy: A “Sensation-al” Experience

Yoga Therapy: Working with the Psychology of the Body Often, when we think of Yoga, we envision people contorting their bodies into crazy pretzel-like positions or hot, sweaty stamina building classes. While this kind of Yoga has become popular in Western society,...

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Love Is No Different Than the Presence

Love Is No Different Than the Presence

When you are with your beloved, you really want to be with them. “Am I with you? Are you with me?” It’s better to ask than to wonder. Yet when you think about them, you move away from them. How then can you be with them? Only when you are present and feel their...

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Stress Reduction through Yoga

Stress Reduction through Yoga

When you are fully present, the simple joy of living and interacting with life arises spontaneously from moment to moment. Your ability to be fully present and experience a deep sense of health, happiness, and wellbeing depends upon the homeostatic, co-creative...

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Experience the Healing Miracles of Yoga Nidra

Experience the Healing Miracles of Yoga Nidra

Can this ancient meditation technique neutralize the epidemic of stress? Stress has ballooned to an incredible $1 trillion health epidemic, according to Peter Schnall’s book Unhealthy Work. That’s more expensive than the combined cost of cancer, smoking, diabetes, and...

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Rest, Reset and Recharge

Rest, Reset and Recharge

Wouldn’t you like to give yourself the gift of a recharge- so that you feel better and have more to give to the people in your life that you love? Stress created illnesses are at an all-time high!  Our modern-day society places a lot of emphasis on our mental...

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