I'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 MoreWrite down ANYTHING that comes to mind - from your morning coffee to your yoga practice. From your puppy to your evolving consciousness. From your partner to the teacher that changed your life. It doesn't matter how small or big - just create a daily habit of bringing to mind what you love. After you write. Pause for a few breaths and notice how you feel when you bring to mind, what you love
Read MoreTo help keep up our spirits high at this darker time of year – it is no coincidence that this season offers many opportunities to celebrate light, warmth, and communing with others. Keep in mind, as you join in celebration – to not also pack your schedule and your self with undue stress, overstimulation, and excessive heavy foods. It will create more challenge as you settle more into the deepness of winter and come out in spring with more colds, allergies, and mucus to rid your self of. How you move through winter of course, effects your blooming in spring.
Read MoreThere is plenty of scientific research substantiating how love can benefit us physically, emotionally, and mentally, as well as socially!
When we feel more loving or grateful we actually release hormones that help us to relax as well as connect more deeply with others.
However, when most of us consider love – being in it, having it, experiencing it - we think of it as something that is dependent on our relationships and conditions with others.
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 MoreThis sequence of asanas is meant to be practiced slow and with ease. It is designed to open the spine, enhance breathing and movement of diaphragm. Increase energy and lift mood. To soften and relax into the heart more. And to simply take time to love and appreciate all your body can do, today, now.
Read MoreScience confirms what many of us already know: a regular practice of meditation can actually increase your brain’s capacity to exercise patience, acceptance, compassion and forgiveness. In fact, research from in a study from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that meditation helps to positively change areas of the brain that are important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing.
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