Jillian Pransky is a Master Certified Yoga Instructor. Her Yogalicious blog is a where you can read her thoughts on yoga and life, and get her recommendations for great products, recipes and more.
Imagine opening a window, looking up at the endless blue sky, and savoring 10 deep breaths of fresh air. Then returning indoors to your activity, feeling renewed. Just like this, even a few moments of meditation is very rejuvenating.
Read MoreWe all have our own "salt". Maybe it is a relationship, an illness, a loss. It's something that consumes our attention, provokes a hardening and initiates an ongoing state of self-defense, limiting our experience of space and love. With time and practice, we make more and more space to allow these difficult experiences to get diluted or digested.
Read MoreYoga and Ayurveda teach us that well-being is the balanced and dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind, and spirit. And harmonizing ourselves with nature is essential for health.
Read MoreSpring is finally in full bloom. The extended sunlight and sprouting flowers help lift our energy and mood. However, while the season may be nudging us up, this May also comes along with a variety of growing challenges and anxiety in our communities, country, and all around the world.
Read MoreWe are four months from New Years now. And now, as we've just slide through the Spring Equinox and into the season on renewal it's a good time to revisit, realign, or re-establish our 'resolutions'... or rather - intentions.
Read MoreIt would be an amazing experiment to witness the changes this Yang energy creates every day. For instance, if you were to scoop up some soil from the ground today, and then every day until say May 1, it would be remarkable to observe the it metamorphoses from contracted, dense, dry, and brittle earth into moist, malleable, fragrant dirt; pulsating with insects and juicy vegetation of all kinds.
Read MoreThroughout my childhood and 20's I learned to endure his need for complete control. I bore his incessant irritability and shielded myself from his frequent bursts of anger. And, even while enduring him, I craved his approval and attention. I longed to feel more ease and love with him and around him, and of course within myself. In fact, it was this profound desire for peace and connection that fueled my journey deeper and deeper into the path of yoga.
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