It’s not just exercise As I sit here in my happy place in Vermont, on the screened in porch, listening to the trees, birds, and wind chimes outside, I am reminded that yoga is a mindset, not just physical exercise. While many people, including myself, practice yoga poses on a mat, breathing, flowing, and being
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When you get diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia it can be scary. Suddenly you feel like your skeleton is disintegrating from inside you. While you’ll need to modify your yoga practice, you don’t need to give it up completely. In fact, yoga can strengthen your muscles, therefore your bones, while also working on balance, which
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The joy of practicing yoga outside My family has a Summer house in Vermont, in the woods, near a lake. Such a peaceful place to practice yoga. I often practice on the screened in porch where I can enjoy the birdsong as my musical soundtrack while keeping the mosquitoes from eating me alive. Meditation on
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Living in the United States right now, with the most hateful president we’ve ever had (to my knowledge), is hard when you have an open heart. My yoga practice has opened me up in ways I never imagined when I started practicing in my early 20s. I never realized how shut down and closed off
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Non-judgment in Yogic philosophy is made up of several smaller concepts: Ahimsa/Non-harming, Svadhyaya/Self-inquiry, and Aparigraha/Non-Attachment. These principles together create Non-judgment which helps us feel our feelings rather than numbing them. Let’s back up. Recently life has felt very heavy. Between all that’s happening in the world and immediately in my life, I have found myself
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The answer is simple, even if the process isn’t If you are a perfectionist, or have perfectionist tendencies, chances are you’ve spent much of your life hating yourself. At the very least, feeling like a constant failure. Perfectionism is the expectation that you have for yourself that you need to be perfect in order to
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But it doesn’t have to Currently in the United States, uncertainty abounds. There are so many things that are out of our control and that can only cause one thing: anxiety. Anxiety happens when you focus on things over which you have no control. Unfortunately, you can’t control much. So what can you do? Focus
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There are certain feelings that are easier to tolerate than others. Feelings like joy, love, happiness, and contentment feel good and you want them to last forever. Feelings like anger, frustration, resentment, fear, and anxiety suck and you want them to go away as quickly as possible. Fortunately or unfortunately, all feelings are temporary and
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If you have osteoporosis, this information will free up your yoga practice. Welcome to Ask a Yoga Teacher, my monthly post about a particular pose that you are struggling with. This month, since I didn’t get any specific requests, I decided to talk about forward bending poses as a category. If you have a question about
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I feel a gnawing inside so I go to the cabinet. I find popcorn or chips and start eating, mindlessly putting my hand into the bag and shoving fistfuls into my mouth. I feel so hungry, yet even as I swallow down the whole bag, my hunger doesn’t recede. I still feel the emptiness, like
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