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Yoga For Kids: Let's Go To The Garden

Conjure up your own secret garden with these yoga poses for kids.

 

Grow A Sunflower

  1. Begin in Child's Pose.
  2. Sit back on your heels and bring your head down.
  3. Close your eyes and imagine that you are a teeny tiny sunflower seed. Is it dark? Be very quiet...until you…
  4. Sprout! Feel the warm sun soak your head as you…
  5. Roll your head gently side to side.
  6. Remember you are not in a hurry.
  7. Notice how the sun feels on your skin.

 

Karma Yoga: Impure vs. Pure Action

You wave your ice cream cone in front of your friend’s face when you know she is on a diet…and it falls flat on the ground.

You notice that the tire that needed constant filling with air—and which you ignored—is now flat just as you are heading out the door to attend a special event. You won’t make it there in time, now.

You try to keep up with the flexible person next to you in yoga class, and wake up the next morning with a sore back and neck.

 

A Holistic Approach To Menopause: Self-Nurturing Yoga Poses

Many women view menopause as a time of loss, physical discomfort and negative emotions.  However, many common discomforts of menopause can be alleviated using yoga, breathwork, and meditation.

8 Yoga Poses To Improve Your Focus & Concentration

Let’s be honest: as we move through 2019 many of us can get easily distracted with notification after notification. We’re connected 24/7 to our smartphones and other tech devices that bombard us with information and reminders of the convenient pleasures of instant gratification.

Yoga’s Spirited Tree: The 8 Limbs Of Yoga

The eight limbs of yoga first appeared in ancient yoga writings, called the Patanjali's Yoga sutras. The Yoga Sutras offer an intention for living that is still relevant today. The word sutras means to thread or weave. When practiced with attention and presence they refine and stabilize every aspect of our lives.

Living Yoga: 6 Steps For Equanimity In Your Yoga Practice

Through life’s many challenges, inviting equanimity into the foreground of your home practice can have remarkable results.  With equanimity, true balance can be restored in all aspects of our lives.

10 Things Your Yoga Teacher Won't Tell You

On the lookout for a yoga class? Here are ten things the yoga instructor may not tell you, but you should know beforehand.

 

The Best Yoga Poses For A Dose Of Self-Love

I find that my relationship with myself is greatly affected by my body awareness. Practices like yoga, which require listening to my body and bring me into my body in the moment, help me; these activities are now important paths that I travel repeatedly on the way back to myself.

Yoga & The Nature Of Stillness: A Yoga Practice Inspired By Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti was a philosopher and spiritual teacher born in 1895-1986 in India; he was brought up in England. He was one of the foremost spiritual leaders in the world.  He is not aligned with any religion; his teachings are neutral. His belief was that the value and beauty of nature was inextricably connected to the beauty of spirit.

“To understand the immeasurable mind,

The mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

-J. Krishnamurti