If there is anything other than gratitude in your heart, then you are in your mind.
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Quote: Gratitude in Your Heart
Corpse Pose (Savasana)
The corpse pose, referred to as the Savasana in the Sanskrit language, is one of the best-known poses in yoga. Yes, it has a weird English name but its benefits are amazing. For example, it relaxes your muscles. It also improves your blood circulation and…
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Yoga for Your Booty
When I first heard about BUTI yoga (pronounced, as you might have guessed, “booty yoga”), I immediately had terrible thoughts of Miley Cyrus twerking. (Note to self: need to work on pre-judgements.) But after taking a class in the bright pink studio at Lotus Kitty, with the encouraging…
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Meditation Techniques for Stress
In today’s progressive world it is easy to get stressed-out with the multiple demands that are required of us each day. The hyper-speed of modern reality is excellent at making us feel exhausted and often end up damaging our nerves and destroying our sense of…
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Breathing Presence Into Your Practice
We all know that breathing is important as we can perish within minutes without oxygen. But according to Dr. Andrew Weil, breathing is special in several respects: it is the only function you can perform consciously as well as unconsciously, and it can be a…
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Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)
Yoga is great for people. It is a kind of exercise which people of all age group can practice. Cobra pose is a very common posture of Hatha yoga which in Sanskrit language is known as Bhujangasana. This is a basic yoga pose and it…
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Just Breathe: A Pranayama Primer
Yoga without breathing is like a sundae without ice cream: it is impossible. Without the breath, yoga becomes simply stretching or exercise. Yogis refer to the breath as pranayama, a sanskrit word that means “extension of the breath.” The breath is the life force; the…
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What to Wear to Hot Yoga
Hot yoga can be a daunting activity to those who are new to yoga or have never tried yoga in a heated environment. With temperatures usually ranging from 90 to 105 degrees, the fear that the heat will be too much is understandable. However, with…
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Ayurvedic Stocking Stuffers
Give the Gift of a Healthy Morning to Someone You Love Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences that developed together and have repeatedly influenced each other throughout history. One of the powerful tools of healing and change in Ayurveda is dinacharya (a healthy morning routine)….
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Yoga Techniques Offer Natural Relief for Migraines
A migraine is a form of headache, throbbing, recurring headache usually on one side of the head often accompanied by nausea. It occurs when a person in under severe stress or has gotten over that state. Even people like Freud and Caesar suffered from it….
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Finding Lightness in Aerial Silks
For all of you that have ever watched the Cirque du Soleil performers as they gracefully transition from pose to pose in the long silk hammocks and thought to yourself — “I’d like to do that” — I have good news for you: Now you…
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