Listening to Your Soul Voice
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Over the past 15 years I have acquired a strong sense of listening to the voice of my soul, others may call it listening to your heart or your gut.
Creating a New Yoga Sanctuary: Online Yoga
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When I was first asked to write a Blog for YCTY it was long before our world had changed, before our world had become virtual, isolating and uncertain. Back then, I was planning to write about how I found yoga, what inspired me to become a yoga instructor and my personal growth that followed. I am happy to save that story for another day.
More Tips for Optimizing Your Home Practice
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Teaching yoga through Zoom has allowed me the opportunity to share the love of the practice during the pandemic and to help yogis slow down and find their breath. Providing a class of moving through asanas, mindfulness, and savasana. I never imagined I would be sharing my practice online but here I am. And believe it or not – it is still wonderful. But let’s not kid ourselves, there is nothing better than a hands-on adjustment or assist during a practice. For this reason, I make it a priority to help those in class really feel the pose through cues or closing our eyes and noticing the feeling of the physical body during the practice.
Tips for Optimizing Your Home Practice
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Here are 7 ways to beat stress and ease your mood. These simple tips, shared by Anjana Rathmore, have helped great many people and are her secret to staying fit with every breath.
Common Yoga Props
Maybe you considered trying yoga at home but think you are not flexible enough? Or maybe you have already tried and you’re just not sure what you need to make the class more accessible to your one-of-a-kind needs? This article introduces the two most common yoga props, blocks and blankets.
Lessons in Resilience
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My intention as I began the Gentle Yoga for Resilience series for You Call This Yoga was to bring mental and physical skills to participants in order to develop resilience during this pandemic. Over the past several weeks, I have been observing my own development of resilience. It has been a part of my practice of “svadyaya” or self-study. Never before in my yoga teaching career has there been such a large cultural experience impacting my students as well as myself. As I am teaching about resilience, I am also working to strengthen my own resiliency.
How Online Yoga Classes Can Help
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The current situation in the world has led most of us who love yoga to seek out classes online. A quick google search just showed there are lots of choices now and over 75,000 people may be in one class alone–not mine, but some yoga teachers are getting a lot of participants. It doesn’t matter now how many people are in an online class as you won’t be bumping elbows with anyone, worried about props, or any of the other things that might come up if you were to enter a crowded yoga class in a public space.
Is Healing Yoga for You?
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I connected with You Call This Yoga for YogaFest 2018 when I heard one of my yoga teachers talking about it. I was having wrist issues that needed surgery at the time, so I signed up for classes that were not my norm including two different meditation courses, some restorative sessions, and a sound bath. I went into the day feeling bummed I couldn’t do my usual stuff and left YogaFest feeling like meditation and space to slow down might actually be more for up my alley than I thought.
Desk Yoga
Is Your Work-From-Home Routine Making Your Back Pain Worse? What if a few small, simple changes in your daily habits could improve your back pain? Maybe you have tried pain medication, chiropractic, massage, and group yoga classes but the pain keeps coming back. If...
Fostering Equanimity through Yoga for Those Touched by Cancer
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As an oncology nurse for over three decades, I have had the immense privilege of caring for individuals and families affected by cancer. Several years ago I was overcome with a strong desire to become a yoga teacher so I could share the benefits of yoga with cancer...