Add these cleansing foods to support your immune system, up your detoxing capabilities, and prepare for next month's seasonal shift. Oh, and they're known to shift your mood, too!
Read MoreAnxiety separates you—it makes your neighbor seem like the other. It makes you build walls instead of bridges. But when we meet ourselves with care, warmth, and presence, we can change our neurology. We release oxytocin, the hormone of love and connection. Our anxiety is not a personality trait. Neither is our connectivity. Yet the more we practice the latter, the better we get that feeling of love and connection.
Read MoreAccording to yoga and Ayurveda, like qualities increase like. We want to ensure that winter’s contracting elements do not weigh down our body and mind. We may wish to equalize by creating warmth, lightness, and openness. Our yoga practice, spiritual practice, and lifestyle should also keep things bright, fluid, and moving inside.
Read MoreTension has a psycho-neurological component. We need to realize that our bodies respond to everything we hear and experience around us, as well as to what we think and experience on the inside. Every time we don’t feel okay about something, we tense up in our body and it doesn’t release until we feel grounded, slow down, take a deep breath, and soften our body. Our tension can be from an hour ago or a decade ago. What makes a difference is how we meet our tension.
Read MoreJoin me for a Free Winter Solstice Practice Online December 19th, to prepare for the darkest moment of the year. December 21 marks the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night, when nature pauses inwardly before expanding back towards longer cycles of light.
Read MoreI've used variations of this practice for years and it is very effective for helping to create a tactile experience, a somatic experience, of what it feels like to sit with a soft, unguarded heart center. It brings us back and forth between physically posturing ourselves so our chest oscillates between over closing and over opening.
Read MoreResearch has shown that Metta Meditation Increases Positive Emotions & Decreases Negative Emotions.
In a landmark study, Barbara Frederickson and her colleagues (Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek, & Finkel, 2008) found that practicing seven weeks of lovingkindness meditation increased love, joy, contentment, gratitude, pride, hope, interest, amusement, and awe.
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