Sleep is the golden chain that binds health and our bodies together – Thomas Dekker Sleep is the best meditation – Dalai Lama Do you often lie awake in bed at night, unable to calm down your mind and stop it from thinking and worrying? It might help to know that you are not alone in suffering from a sleeping disorder. It is believed that nearly a quarter of the adult population deals with sleeping problems and about 6-10% suffer from insomnia. Sleeping disorders can manifest themselves in … [Read more...] about 5 Relaxing Yoga Exercises for a Good Night Sleep
6 Tips for Finding Happiness, Peace, and Good Mental Health
Sometimes life can throw us so many challenges, everything can start to feel overwhelming. It isn’t always easy to find the positive among the negative and keep smiling, and that’s OK. The good news is that there’s hope. There are countless ways to find the joy in life if you know how. Here are a few tips for finding inner peace and happiness: Play to your strengths When we’re feeling down we tend to focus on the negative, often on our own personal weaknesses. Don’t! Consciously identify … [Read more...] about 6 Tips for Finding Happiness, Peace, and Good Mental Health
5 Ways Yoga Helps with Anxiety
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life…live in the moment; live in the breath.” – Amit Ray One out of four Americans will experience an anxiety disorder at some point during their lives. Such disorders are sometimes accompanied by panic attacks – intense feelings of panic that often come out of nowhere. Panic attacks can include a pounding heart, sudden sweating, dizziness, and shallow breathing. Living with anxiety and panic attacks is difficult, but there are a variety of techniques … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Yoga Helps with Anxiety
Breathing Techniques: Why are they essential to yoga?
By Suzana Altero Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God." ~Krishnamacharya Pranayama (breathing techniques) are a key practice of Hatha Yoga, the mother of all physical or postural yoga. They are such a core tool in this tradition that the term Hatha itself is closely connected to it. Wanna understand how? What does Pranayama mean? The word pranayama can be technically translated as … [Read more...] about Breathing Techniques: Why are they essential to yoga?
Establishing a Home Yoga Practice
Yoga in America is booming. A 2016 report by Yoga Journal and Yoga Alliance reported that 36.7 million people practice yoga, up from 20.4 million in 2012, and 28 percent of all Americans having taken a yoga class at some point in their lives. As a result, the demand for yoga instructors has never been higher and increasing numbers of practitioners are becoming inspired to teach — a career that can be as challenging as it is fulfilling. In their new book The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga: … [Read more...] about Establishing a Home Yoga Practice
How Yoga Improves Back Pain
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how to not need it” - Hippocrates It’s estimated that roughly 80% of people will experience some type of serious back pain in their life. The world’s population is around 7 billion people. So statistically speaking, 5 billion people will encounter significant back pain. That’s an outrageously high number for a problem that is often curable and preventable. Unfortunately, people are unaware of how to prevent back pain, and how to handle it once it … [Read more...] about How Yoga Improves Back Pain
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