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Building Resilience After Trauma: Important Ways With Yoga And Meditation

Posted by Kidecia King on February 9, 2023 | Featured | No Comments

What Is Trauma? Trauma is not a disease, a deficiency, nor an event. Even though Trauma is accompanied, and identified, by body-mind dis-ease (or dysregulation), that may be triggered by an event, or a series of (unfortunate) events, Trauma responses … Read More … Read More

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Yoga Tip/Challenge # 22: Eustress, We Stress, Let’s All Reduce Distress

Posted by Kidecia King on September 13, 2022 | Featured | No Comments

How to tell the difference between growing pains and alarming/alerting pain That Signals, And Leads To Further, Distress: If you move into pose or experience and your discomfort fades as you melt into your new position, lessens as you move … Read More … Read More

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Many falsely claim that Yoga is Asana. This is incorrect. Others falsely claim that Yoga is Samadhi. This is also incorrect. Although Yoga utilizes both Asana and Samadhi on the Eight-Limbed Path, Yoga is Union. And the aim of Yoga practice (the entire last chapter of the Yoga Sutras) is Liberation/Kaivalya. Nothing more. Nothing less. To think or say otherwise reflects that you do not have a full or accurate understanding of what Yoga is or accomplishes (or, worst, that you have attachments to certain world views/ideologies that prevent you from fully accessing/seeing the Truth).Want to learn a more accurate definition of Yoga that keeps you out of ignorance?Click here to learn more!