If you didn’t read last week’s essay, How to Move Toward Ease in 10 “Simple” Steps, click the link to read! I am doing a 10 week exploration of the first 2 limbs of yoga, the Yamas and Niyamas, to help us find the balance of strength and ease when we are off the yoga
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I was recently speaking with a client, I’ll call her “Sara,” who was telling me about her anxiety and that she wanted to rise above it. That’s what we Type A perfectionists like to do: muscle through, rise above, and take control of all situations. Unfortunately with anxiety, this just doesn’t work. Trying harder doesn’t
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Over the past 8 months I have been teaching a yoga course called Diving Deeper into Your Yoga Practice. Yoga is much more than just poses on the mat, although many of us start off with that. I know I did. Yoga is actually a multifaceted practice that involves the mind, body, and spirit, and
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If you are a human being living in a capitalistic society, chances are at some point in your life, you’ve felt like you weren’t enough. Not good enough, tall enough, thin enough, strong enough, smart enough, etc. The list goes on and on. In school we learn to analyze, compare, and contrast. Helpful skills when
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What is Mindfulness? According to the Google Dictionary, Mindfulness is Boiled down, Mindfulness is about paying attention to what is happening right now. Sometimes when you are doing a rote task, your mind wanders. Perhaps the task is boring and doesn’t take any brain power to do, like when you wash the dishes or fold
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When it comes to healthy eating, how you eat can be as important as what you eat. Sitting while you eat, eating slowly, and chewing your food well can aid in digestion and prevent abdominal discomfort during and after eating. It also encourages you to take a pause in your day, slow down, and do
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Have you ever thought about why you eat? Of course you need food to survive, that’s a given. But food can be so much more than that. And if you have any addictive tendencies (and who doesn’t?), food can be a problem. Knowing why you eat helps you control your behavior. So let’s look at
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I have always had a problematic relationship with food. I know the causes of this are multi-tiered, but in the end, it comes down to the problematic relationship I had with myself. If you grew up in the 70s and 80s and were female, you were fed constant messages that you should be thinner, smaller,
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The body speaks to you all day long, are you listening? What does it mean to “listen” to your body? Your mouth might speak words to communicate to other humans, but the body speaks to us in the language of sensation. Your body tells you: Overriding sensation But how often do you pay attention to
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Savasana (Corpse pose) is the last pose of most yoga practices. This pose creates stillness which allows you to integrate and absorb the wisdom of your yoga practice. Even though the body is at rest, it can be the most challenging pose in the entire yoga practice. Savasana is the practice of Concentration (Dharana), or
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