By Dr. Kaiya Ansorge What is a koan? A koan is a phrase or word that is used in meditation to train the mind. Usually, the koan is somewhat puzzling in order to invite the mind to open in unusual ways. In fact, the term is often translated as “riddle.” Koan literature involves enigmatic sayings or questions that, when meditated upon continuously, are meant to resolve in specific ways that indicate the path of insight for the … [Read more...] about Riddled with Wonder: How to Incorporate Koan Meditation into Your Practice and Your Life
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Out of the Darkness and Into the Light: How My Military Transition Helped My Yoga Practice in the Pandemic
By Alicia Dill Starting in 2013, I’ve been practicing regularly at the same hot yoga studio two to three times per week. Hot yoga gives me intensity, focus, mindfulness, and dripping heat you feel in your bones even in the dead of winter. While holding a complicated pose well past your comfort zone, you start to comprehend all those buzzwords you’ve heard tossed around. The point where you are working mind, body, and soul. Where you forget your own name and everything else that led you to … [Read more...] about Out of the Darkness and Into the Light: How My Military Transition Helped My Yoga Practice in the Pandemic
Lessons in Love: Practical Advice from the Yoga Mat
By Melissa Bryan Lead With Love Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu. May all beings be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all. Valentine’s Day 2021 recently passed, and as I sit on the opposite side of that holiday having just taught my high school students to create heart maps to identify the parts of their lives that fill their hearts, and having just finished Romeo & Juliet with some and … [Read more...] about Lessons in Love: Practical Advice from the Yoga Mat
3 Ways Finding My WHY Helped Me Grow
Yoga can provide you with techniques to teach you how to, at any moment, step into the eye of the storm. - Find Your Why Foundation Let me ask you something…are you confident enough to step into the eye of the storm? Probably not. Let me ask you this…why would you want to step into the eye of the storm? Because that is where the growth is. Or how about this - do you know your WHY? Maybe not. Or this - why do you practice yoga? To be flexible? To be … [Read more...] about 3 Ways Finding My WHY Helped Me Grow
Growing Medical Recognition of Yoga as a Treatment for Anxiety
By Dr. Sat Bir S. Khalsa Perceived stress and anxiety can be a normal and healthy response to life circumstances. But for some, the fast pace and uncertainty of modern society causes debilitating levels of stress and anxiety. Chronic, unmanaged stress hurts our quality of life and is responsible for an increase in health issues and disorders across the world. It is a psycho-social crisis that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rates of anxiety in the U.S. have more than … [Read more...] about Growing Medical Recognition of Yoga as a Treatment for Anxiety
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