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Keep Growing with Awareness: Yoga and Self-care for the Rest of Your Life:
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." —Tuli Kupferberg from success.com(1)
One of the most impressive aspects of a vital Yoga and meditation...
moreChanging Lives, Changing Yoga
5 Steps to Sustaining a Vital and Evolving Yoga and Self-Care Practice
"Wherever you are is the entry point," Kabir from goodreads.com
"Change is the only...
moreSustaining Joy This Summer: Healthy Foundations for an Active Life!
As summer arrives, bringing sunshine and adventures, we must recognize that our bodies thrive when built on a solid foundation. This article and our work are intended to be reminders, inspiration, and opportunities to continue incorporating foundational, mindful movement practices into your...
moreBreathing Basics: Simple Practices to Breath Better to Feel Better
When the Breath wanders, the mind is also unsteady. But when the Breath is calmed, the mind is still, and the yogi achieves a long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the Breath. ~Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika
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moreNeuroplasticty and Deeper Change: Somatic Exploration in Yoga for Rewiring the Brain-Body Connection
The brain and body interact in response to what we do, feel, and think. This is an automatic process of which we are largely and happily unaware.
However, when things go awry, the body and mind communicate this to us through symptoms and distress that come to awareness. Reading and...
moreNavigating the Edge in Yoga: A Mindful Approach to Healthy Movement and an Active Lifestyle
As the longer and brighter days of spring unfold, so many of us are inspired to embrace life’s activities anew. To create a healthy foundation for these activities, we can step onto our yoga mats with renewed intention and heightened awareness.
In this blog post, we’ll explore how a...
moreNew Year's Reflections and Renewing Our Intentions for 2024
I hope you are doing well and enjoying happy times with those you love.
Thank you all for another year together on this journey!
As we approach the end of the year, it's a natural time to reflect on our lives and experiences. For those of us on a self-care journey, this reflection...
moreThe Yoga of Somatic Exploration: Your Path to a Healthier, Happier You at Any Age
Every year at this time, when summer activities wind down and our fall schedules and obligations resume, we can re-assess our needs and approaches to self-care. So it is with our work here as the evolution of our teaching and what we offer to help you on your journey continues. This has led us...
moreSomatic Movement: The Key to Unlocking Your New Possibilities in Yoga
Movement Wellness From Inside Out
Are you looking to take your yoga practice to the next level? If so, you might consider incorporating somatic movement into your routine. Somatic movement is a practice that focuses on the internal experience of movement and can help you...
moreTHE YOGA OF GRATITUDE–APPRECIATING AND CREATING THE LIFE YOU LOVE
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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more“Sthira Sukham Asanam” [A Yoga Pose is a] Comfortable Steady Seat
“Sthira Sukham Asanam” [A Yoga Pose is a] Comfortable Steady Seat
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Ch. 2.46-2.48
The popular yoga with which most of us are familiar is the yoga asana (literally “seat” in Sanskrit) practice that provides so much benefit on a...
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