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Yin Yoga – Butterfly Pose
Butterfly pose can be done a couple of ways depending on your intention. The first way is to stretch the tissues of the back (like in a forward bend) and the second way is to target the muscles of the...
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Yoga Music- New Earth Records Review
One of the questions I get asked a lot by my Yoga students is where do I get my Yoga Music from. It would be impossible to do a blog post about ALL my Yoga music (cause I have a shit ton of it). But I...
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Let Life Affect You – By Marie-Ève Bonneau
We have a tendency to avoid our own tender spots and to walk around the potholes of our vulnerability. We’re afraid of getting upset, apprehensive of being hurt, terrified by the prospect of feeling...
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Yin Yoga – Caterpillar Pose
Caterpillar Pose is a great pose to open up the tight muscles and fascia of the whole back of your body including the legs and back. So depending on your intended area, you can use props to change up...
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How To Practice Walking Meditation – By Lyndsey Burton
How To Practice Walking Meditation A Walking Meditation combines present moment awareness with movement, and is a great way to help you become more mindful while rocking the Yoga mat! The awesome thing...
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Yin Yoga – Shoelace Pose
Shoelace pose is a great way to get into the muscles and fascia in hips, butt and IT band, which can feel cursed in our culture because of all of the sitting in chairs we do. Because the muscles and...
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Insomnia & Stress Yoga To The Rescue
Whether you’re naturally a night owl like me or just going through a period of insomnia or high stress, having a wind-down routine will help you get a good nights’ sleep. If you’re suffering from...
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What Is Yoga Nidra – By Allison Goundry
Yoga Nidra is a guided relaxation/meditation practice where the practitioner is led through a creative exploration of the 5 Koshas (layers of being): physical, energetic, mental/emotional, intuitive...
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Yoga For Your Neck
If you’re like me and suffer from neck stiffness then you’re going to want to add this stretch to your daily routine. You can even do it at work at your desk. Because of the nature of our western...
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Tight Shoulders? Best Shoulder Stretch Ever!
I have some crazy tight shoulders. Before I was a Yogini I was a body builder and a hairstylist and both of those activities led to some really tight shoulders. Those tight shoulder muscles in my case...
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From Skeptic to Believer: A Yoga Journey- By Liana Bakker
It was 2005 and I was in the middle of training to become a Registered Massage Therapist. One of our courses was “Therapeutic Exercise.” Not only did we learn about specific rehab exercises, but we...
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Foot Pain? Yoga To The Rescue!
Plantar fasciitis, foot pain, fallen arches, flat feet and bunions oh my! These are just a few foot problems that affect so many people. I’ve got some pretty strong opinions on why this is and what we...
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Neck Pain? Get Relief!
I have a few neck pain poses in my Yoga tool belt and they are all helpful, but this one is the granddaddy of all neck stretches. For some of you, it may even stretch out some little hidden muscles you...
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Yin Yoga – Swan Pose
Swan pose is great as a back bend on its own, and a great pose to lead into Sleeping Swan Pose (more on that in a future post). Of the Yin Yoga poses Swan is a bit more on the Yang side so the hold...
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Yin Yoga – Sleeping Swan Pose
Sleeping swan pose is a variation of swan pose only folded over the front leg. Folding over the front leg will increase the sensation in the hip, butt, IT band area and is a pretty sweet hip opener. If...
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Vedic Astrology and Yoga
The following is a guest post by my Vedic Astrologer Lorae Marsten. I was highly skeptical about Vedic Astrology at first since I tend to have one foot in the woo woo and one firmly planted in...
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To Round Or Not To Round – That Is The Question
This post could stir the pot a little and maybe even cause a wee Yoga uproar. Believe it or not, Yogis just like everyone else can be pretty attached to ‘their way’ of practicing being the ‘right way’....
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The Magic of Mantras – By Saraswati
There are as many mantras as there are stars in the sky. Even if you may not know it, you are affected by the power of words each day in both positive and negative ways. Each of us has a running...
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Back Pain? Get Off Your Ass.
I recently read an article entitled ‘sitting is the new smoking‘. Yikes! At first glance that sounded pretty extreme, but is it really? It’s actually not an exaggeration. Sadly chairs are indeed...
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Yoga Words – What is a Kula
If you travel in Yoga circles long enough you are likely to stumble across words that may sound kinda funny or even intimidating. In some upcoming posts I’ll go into the meaning of these words for...
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