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Yoga is a great challenge, and that is why it requires so much practice. Even though yoga can be tough, there are some ways to make it less difficult. Here are five tips to make your yoga practice a little bit easier.

Maybe you’ve heard yoga is great for your body, mind, and spirit, but you can’t get into it. Maybe you’ve been doing yoga for years, but you don’t feel as connected to your practice as you used to.

Some of us commit to a particular yoga style and never look back, but if you’re still looking for that perfect asana practice, or you want to mix things up in your current practice, you might find the remedy through the discovery of your dosha.

Setu Bandha Ssarvangasana / Bridge pose

Benefits:

• Great chest opener.
• Releases tension in upper and lower back.
• Teaches actions for more advanced back bends.

Foundation & General Alignment:

• The back of your head is on the floor while maintaining a curve in your neck.
• Shoulders are on the floor away from ears.
• Press arms down into floor.
• Feet and knees are hip distance apart.
• Chest is up but your chin is not resting on the chest.

Let your heaviness be what grounds you.

There was a moment during yoga teacher training when I thought to myself, “how can I be a yoga teacher while sad?” I felt fear about teaching others as I still have some negative patterns of my own. Then I remembered—this is a practice.

Welcome to our #WellnessWednesday yoga primer. Yoga is a wonderful way to become attuned to your body and increase circulation and flexibility. Each week I'll offer you a pose with benefits and instruction.

Week 18: Bhujangasana / Baby Cobra

Benefits:

Balasana / Child pose

Benefits:

• Calming resting pose.
• Gentle hip opener.
• It’s a thorough way to stretch your back a shoulders with minimally injury.

Foundation & General Alignment:

• Hands, forearms, elbows, forehead, knees, shins, and top of the feet are on the floor.
• Knees are wider than hip distance with big toes touching.
• Belly isn’t resting on floor or thighs.
• Shoulders are away from ears.
• Forehead can either be resting on floor, up

Middle school, defined as the 7^th and 8^th grades, is a time period in which children have an increased risk of starting habits such as smoking cigarettes and trying other chemical substances. A previous study showed that 3-10% of middle schoolers in the United States used cigarettes, alcohol, or illegal drugs. Thus, researchers wanted to see if yoga practice could lower the desire of middle school students to use substances.

Welcome to our #WellnessWednesday yoga primer. Yoga is a wonderful way to become attuned to your body and increase circulation and flexibility. Each week I'll offer you a pose with benefits and instruction.

Most of us are so caught up in work that it’s difficult to find the time to eat lunch, let alone sneak out to attend a yoga class. That doesn’t, however, mean you have to completely do away with your weekly workout goals. Here are five yoga poses to do in the office to keep you limber—without scaring off your coworkers.

1. High Altar Pose: Sitting in your office chair, inhale and lift your arms above your head. Clasp your hands together and invert your palms upward. Lean to your right, and hold for seven to eight breaths. Then, switch sides.

The heart beats 103,680 times per day on average and over 2 billion times in an average lifetime. How strong the heart is determines much about an individual’s physical and emotional health; these two elements inevitably influence the mental and spiritual health of a person as well.