Soul-Centered Success: Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life
Nothing will influence your happiness, relationships, energy, success, and overall life satisfaction more than your mindset. Your mindset is your operating system for your life. It influences every part of your day, including what you focus on and how you
New Research: How Stress Affects Inflammation, Neurodegeneration, the Gut Microbiome, Cancer Treatment and Relationships
Stress is a particular passion of mine. I love learning how to reduce negative stress, and I’m fascinated by the ways stress affects our health. We do not know everything there is to know about stress. In the grand scheme
Yoga and Pregnancy: 6 Tips for Postpartum Care
Pregnancy and birth are major events for your body. This alone heightens your risk of pelvic floor dysfunction. We still must take the time to lay the foundation of function, strength, and strategy. Pregnancy and the Pelvic Floor Here are
Cultivate Contentment this Holiday: How to Practice Gratitude
When I was a child, Christmas morning was a well-orchestrated event. My parents loved to surprise us with special, unexpected gifts we hadn't asked for and loved to set a cozy and festive stage for the ultimate event, the opening
Experts Agree. Yoga Is Great for Your Brain: A Review of the Scientific Evidence
Although we’ve long known that cardiovascular exercise improves brain health and stimulates the growth of new neurons, we’ve known less about how yoga affects the brain. Now, a review of the research suggests that yoga may enhance many of the
Navasana: 3 Yoga Variations for Practicing Boat Pose
We’ve all heard that strong abdominal muscles support a healthy lower back and that yoga poses build “core” strength. But, although Navasana (Boat Pose) is categorized as an abdominal pose, like all yoga asanas, on a purely physical level, Navasana
Yoga Therapy: Relief from Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's disease is an age-associated, progressive neurological disorder that affects movement. It all starts with resting tremors progressing to a noticeable tremor to full-blown tremors, joint stiffness, and slowing of movement. As the condition progresses, the individual’s face may show
Less But Better: Streamline Your Yoga Classes
I’ve been reading an interesting book called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown (1). I connect to the main point of the book, which is the idea that we need to strive for “less but better.” This
Holiday Stress? 5 Yoga Tips for Keeping Your Presence During the Season Of Presents
It’s the holiday season again. If you practice a specific religion, there is a holiday for you now. If you don’t practice a particular religion, you likely will still be bombarded with holiday advertisements, holiday parties, and the stress of
Yoga for Tight Shoulders—With an Imaginary Sticky Mat
One of the conundrums we face as beginning yoga students is that we can’t know what a pose is supposed to feel like until we’re doing it. But if you start with the standard-issue collapsed chest and tight shoulders of
Arjuna is Us: The Yoga of Social Activism
“Of the numerous Sanskrit works on Yoga, two scriptures have become favorites of dedicated students of Yoga—the Yoga-Sutra, attributed to Patanjali and the Bhagavad-Gita ascribed to Vyasa. These can be considered foundational Yoga texts. While the former work addresses ascetics
Daya: A Yoga Practice of Compassion
I am not as compassionate as I would like to be. I am inclined to be ego-driven and to retreat to my own corner of the world. My ego tells me that above all else that what I perceive to
The Panchamaya Model: Yoga Practice for the Whole Person
My teacher Gary Kraftsow often says: “You can’t teach what you don’t have.” This means that to be effective yoga teachers, we need to practice our own yoga. If you have an interesting, rich and multidimensional personal practice, this will