I AM Yoga: Interrupting Negative Feedback Loops
Most people live without full freedom in how they meet their life situations and relationships. Even when things appear to be going well, there is often tension, effort, and inner conflict shaping perception and response. Yoga begins with looking directly at this lack...
Your Body’s Energy Field Is the Playground of the Past and the Present
Before you read, pause for ten seconds, and feel your breath. Notice your jaw, shoulders, and belly. If you are holding tension, do not try to fix it. Just notice it. This week is about Emotional Healing and Release, and the teaching below explains why stress can stay...
I AM Yoga: Exploring the Secrets of Life
Are you truly living in the present, or are you unconsciously re-living your past? Most of us move through life reacting to today based on fears and pleasures from yesterday. This habit creates a cycle of repetition that keeps true connection out of reach. Below,...
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...
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...
Read moreWhere 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.
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...