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
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5 Ways Meditation Makes Us Better at Yoga
Meditation. Yoga. The two go together like Batman & Robin (though with less capes… usually). As spiritual health practices that have both found popularity in the West over the past 50 years, we tend to lump yoga and meditation together. Whenever we read of one, the other usually isn’t far behind. And when we’re shopping for yoga pants it’s no surprise to see a meditation mala in the vicinity. Yet despite the obvious correlation between yoga and meditation, there are still countless … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Meditation Makes Us Better at Yoga
DIY Wellness Retreat for any Budget
By Brooke Larrabee Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. " – Deborah Day If you are like me you drool over pictures of wellness retreats in exotic places with infinity pools that seem to blend perfectly into the blue ocean or look out over thousands of acres of pristine rain forest. If you are like me you would not turn down a Swedish massage or a mud wrap in a beautiful spa or the chance to do yoga on a … [Read more...] about DIY Wellness Retreat for any Budget
The simplicity of yoga…
A photo posted by Daily Cup of Yoga (@dailycupofyoga) on Jun 21, 2016 at 4:28pm PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js Yoga is the essence of simplicity. Stand tall, Take a deep breath, Exhale, Close your eyes, Inhale, Exhale, Bend at the waist, Reach for your toes, Take another deep breath, Let the air out, Inhale, Stand tall. That's yoga. Do it--any time, any place. Keep it simple. ------------------------ To get the latest updates follow Daily Cup of Yoga on Bloglovin. … [Read more...] about The simplicity of yoga…
How one NFL Star Quieted the Voice in His Head and Found the Present Moment
A photo posted by Amazing Yoga (@amazingyoga) on Mar 3, 2016 at 9:15am PST I grew up with a childhood dream of one day playing in the NFL. The dream became an obsession. I ate, drank, and slept football. In pursuit of my ambitions, I beat the crap out of my body with relentless overtraining and tortured my mind and spirit, believing that the only way I could be happy was a long, successful career in the NFL. Rejection. After finishing my college career at the University of … [Read more...] about How one NFL Star Quieted the Voice in His Head and Found the Present Moment
25 Ways to Be Kind
A photo posted by Manduka (@mandukayoga) on Aug 12, 2015 at 3:31pm PDT You don't need a reason to help people. Let’s remember to be kind to one another. It isn’t always apparent on the outside when we are facing struggles on the inside. After all, when this is all over, all that will really matter is how we treated each other. When we enter this world our Kindness IQ is intact. We can keep it that way through our actions. Kindness is like a muscle--it gets stronger the more you use … [Read more...] about 25 Ways to Be Kind
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