Dissatisfaction, discontentment, and out-and-out unhappiness are a surprisingly ubiquitous feature of modern life. Mental health issues are a growing public health concern, rates of stress, anxiety and depression are rising sharply among the UK’s teenage girls and the United States…
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I recently moved into a granny flat close to the yoga studio where I teach. Although the circumstances for my sudden move were complicated, it was the simplest house-hunting experience of my adult life. I found the ad in the…
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…
I often meditate on trusting that I will have enough. Enough of what? Well, enough courage, enough inner strength, enough wisdom, enough energy, enough love, enough happiness, enough peace, and yes, enough money. When life becomes intense, the prism of mental scarcity often…
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Found these insightful ruminations on Tumblr about one yogini's (julia lee yoga) realization about the essence of a yoga practice: In a perfect world (or in a world where money grows from trees), yoga would be freely accessible to all.…
Yoga for Dummies, p. 277 Yoga encourages you to cultivate the virtue of greedlessness in all matters. The Sanskrit word for this is aparigraha, whcih means literally "not grasping all round." The yoga practitioner who is well-trained in the art…
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