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5 Ways to Boost Your Intuition — and Why They Work

[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Lindsey Lewis, yoga teacher + life coach who blogs at www.libreliving.com.] RANDOM RUN-INS WITH NOT-SO-RANDOM INSIGHTS I was sick of being tired, and tired of being sick. I had scored my dream job—assistant editor at a top-earning Canadian magazine. Scratch that. It was all I’d dreamt it would be, it just didn’t feel like a dream. I wasn’t sleeping, wasn’t digesting food, wasn’t at ease, wasn’t happy. My anxiety was through the roof. One day I … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Boost Your Intuition — and Why They Work

The Ethics of Eating

[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Melina Meza BS Nutrition, 500-RYT, with some advice on on how to live your yoga through ethical food choices. Bon Appétit!] As unique beings we all have different hopes, fears, conditioning, expectations, and agendas around our health and our relationship to food and eating. Over the years of teaching and doing nutritional counseling, I have found it valuable to establish my own set of personal ethics in regards to my health and that of the planet. As … [Read more...] about The Ethics of Eating

How to Get More Exercise

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Dahn Yoga on how to bring a little more consciousness and movement to your daily routine.] The modern professional is seemingly caught in a lose-lose situation. While these individuals may benefit more than just about anyone from exercise, the demands of their jobs often make it difficult to be as physically active as they would like to be. This underscores the importance of finding alternative ways to be physically active. There are a number … [Read more...] about How to Get More Exercise

Stressed? 10 De-Stress Yoga Tips

“Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just Be.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh [Editor's note: This is a guest post by Lindsey Lewis who blogs at Libre Living.] Yup, I’m a yoga teacher—among other things—and generally speaking an all-round happy-go-lucky gal. Life is FULL of wonder, peace, love, and flow. “Oh sure, but you’re a yoga teacher. You have less stress than other people do.” I … [Read more...] about Stressed? 10 De-Stress Yoga Tips

Are you Weak or Tight?

{Isn't this an amazing video of Joseph Encinia, 2011 World Champion of the Bishnu Ghosh Cup? He subscribes to a slightly different yoga philosophy of 99% practice, 1% theory...} -----------------------------------------<---------------------->-------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------<---------------------->-------------------------------------- [Editor's note: This is a guest post by Mariska Breland, founder and instructor of Fuse Pilates, … [Read more...] about Are you Weak or Tight?

A Yoga Sanctuary with the Five Elements

[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Sarah Oxley, who shares some insight on how to create a sanctuary for your home yoga practice.] I’ve been doing yoga classes for a year now, and soon after I first started I also began a daily yoga practice at home. This wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be since I didn’t have the space to do some of the asanas I really wanted to try out. Most of the time I was worrying about knocking something over or being too close to items in the room. I tried … [Read more...] about A Yoga Sanctuary with the Five Elements