Yoga Tip/Challenge # 17: Use The Wall

A wall can be used in a number of different ways in your Yoga practice. For Asanas, you can use a wall to create leverage, balance, support, and resistance in your poses and to perform strengthening and flexibility exercises. In … Read MoreRead More

Sutra Studies Week 28: Check-In | The Importance Of Self-Awareness For Sensory Control

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Sutra Studies Week 28: Moving To Subtler Levels Of Awareness In Your Practice | Using Concentration On Your Senses To Gain Inner Peace (Sutra 35)

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Sutra Studies Week 13: Check-In | Why Yoga Is One Of The Highest Forms Of Service (When All Limbs Are Practiced)

Yoga is both inner and outer work. Practicing Yamas teach you to see, and honor, your connection with, and to, all of existence. Niyamas teach you how to be responsible for caring for your individual expression in the world. Asanas … Read MoreRead More

Yoga Tip/Challenge # 4: Practice Where You Are With What You Have

Remember that all you need to get started in Yoga is yourself. Mats are suggested for Asanas, but not even a mat is required for practice. … Read More

Sutra Studies Week 12: Check-in | Why You Lose Interest In Lower Desires When You Connect To The Truth Of Who You Really Are

The human animal, like all other animals on planet Earth, is an inherently terrified creature whose primary aim is to stay alive. After that preservation of life, our species then pursues pleasure, and attempts to avoid pain, based on our … Read MoreRead More

Yoga Tip/Challenge # 1: Strive For Improvement

Always aim to hold your pose, your breath, your concentration, your compassion, your kindness, and so forth, a little bit longer than you think you can each time that you practice. … Read More

How Yoga Can Help You Cope With Life

“Yoga cannot provide a cure for life, but it does present a proven method for coping with it.” -From The Teachings of Swami Sivananda Saraswati As an effective science of the mind, body, and spirit, Yoga has many benefits, with … Read MoreRead More

Sutra Studies Week 11: Freedom From [Meaning Non-Attachment], Not Denouncement of, Desire Brings Peace (Sutra 15)

“The consciousness of self-mastery in one who is free from craving from objects seen or heard about is non-attachment.” –The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Drstanusravika Visaya Vitrasnasya Vasikara Samjna Vairagyam Drsta: seen, experienced | Anusravika: heard | Visaya: object | … Read MoreRead More

Releasing Toxic Stress, Trauma, And Adversity From The Mind And Body Through Yoga

The effect of toxic stress, traumatic events, and adversity on the mind and body varies from person to person, but it has been well documented and studied that if events and circumstances are so overwhelming that a person is unable … Read MoreRead More