“Are you kidding me?” This is the thought that’s going through your mind as you peek into the yoga class ahead of you. You start thinking of ways to back out…hamstring too tight, feeling tired, yadda yadda yadda. There are incredible articles about why guys should practice yoga. I’m not going to beat that dead [...]
Sometimes we yogis miss very clear opportunities during our daily lives to take our practice off of the mat and place it firmly and prominently into our every day existence. It can be all too easy to become comfortable with how we view our practice and the world around us. Yoga provides a wonderful toolbox [...]
When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. (No need for incense or sitting in [...]
Rod Stryker talks about Vinyasa Krama, the importance of sequencing, and bringing a more mindful approach and holistic balance to your practice.
Proper form always comes before depth in a posture. Your depth within a posture will change from month to month, week to week, day to day, and during each unfolding moment within each posture as you find your edge, and work to expand it. But proper form is proper form: unchanging. During your yoga practice [...]
Check out this infographics explaining the chakra system of the body. Each of the seven major chakras is responsible for one of the major areas of life, has it’s own location, color and vibrates with a certain frequency. Source: ChakraHealing.com Related articles The main Chakras. (unlock-your-mind.com) An Introduction To Chakras (miraculousendeavors.org) Balancing The Heart Chakra (zazenlife.com) Yoga [...]
Recently, a close friend of mine was asking me about meditation. He knows I practice yoga and meditation and he was picking my brain to find out a little bit more about how it could benefit him. At one point he uttered the famous phrase that every beginner says about meditation, “I CAN’T meditate. I [...]
So as beautiful as today is – and as good of a mood I am in – it will end by going to a funeral service for a dear friend who lost her 20 year old son in a car accident last week. He ran head on into a tree. There is nothing that I [...]
Happiness is not simply a state of arrival Happiness is not some “magical” place at which we arrive, and lasting Happiness can be difficult to obtain…without hard work that is. That’s not what you wanted to hear is it? The truth is, happiness is a discipline, a practice and a persistence in challenging yourself and [...]
The concept of chakras, energy and how your body operates on an vibrational level.
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