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Yoga Teaches You Mindset
I went to a yoga workshop many years ago and the teacher, at a point when we were all holding a really hard pose, said, you know why I encourage you to keep calm and breathe steadily? We all raised our eyes, like yeah, really? When are we going to be released from the...
Yoga Poses for Different Moments in Your Life
I sometimes like to categorize yoga poses according to the effect they have on me, for example: Standing poses - strengthening, fierce (in the Bey way) Inversions - energizing (except, when you’ve been practicing a long time and headstand and shoulderstand are put in...
What is your Keystone Habit?
What's your Keystone Habit? [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grGzxLqzZeE[/embedyt] #keystonehabit #habitcreation #selflove #stressmanagement #positivechange #mindfulness
Categorizing Yoga Poses
In yoga asana - the physical practice of yoga, there are a number of different ways to categorize the poses. One is by their names - eg. animal poses (e.g. downward facing dog, scorpion, eagle), sage poses, (vishvamitra, virhaba) shape/anatomy poses (triangle, intense...
Procrastination
Are you a procrastinator? [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCaVPlD8do0[/embedyt] #stressmanagement #selfesteem #selfhelp #healthyhabits #healthcoach #overwhelm #lifecoach #detox #habits #procrastination
Self Love
Are you practicing Self love? [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcN1sU5Wy0[/embedyt] #stressmanagement #selfesteem #selfhelp #healthyhabits #overwhelm #habits #selflove
What is Healthy?
In Yoga and Ayurveda, we are thought to be made up of koshas or sheaths. These sheaths, when functioning well are stacked on top of each other, like Russian stacking dolls or the layers of an onion. The first is the physical body - the anamyakosha. The second is the...
The Word Yoga Comes From…
...The stem yuj, which means to yoke or bind? There are different interpretations of what is binding or connecting. Some yogis consider it to be more about connecting the mind with the body, through the action of breath. As humans, our brains are constructed in such a...
Breath – the Flow of Life
Breathing is managed by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which means you don’t have to think about it. Now, what makes breathing unusual and different to a lot of other functions that are controlled by the ANS, is that we can also control it. Ancient yogis found...
Fake it Till You Make it: Manifestation for Neuroscience Nerds.
Yes. I really just wrote that: Fake it Till You Make it! Why? Because sometimes you need to start embodying the person you want to be. This is grounded in Neuroscience. You may have heard of that expression - what fires together wires together. This is true - the more...
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