Have you ever noticed how many hand gestures you make in a day, or even just an hour? The shapes we make with our hands, whether intentional or not, is sometimes even more powerful than our words. So is it surprising that making specific shapes with your hands affect the mind and body in specific ways?
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Believe it or not it’s in your nature to be perfectly calm in all conditions. Remember how with these four keys to calm.
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Most of us struggle at least once with expressing something that feels impossible. Heart opening practices like Cobra Pose can help. And accepting that heart energy opens in surprising forms and many directions makes space to express what’s difficult without judgment.
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Link to the power of each moon phase by practicing yoga nidra, mantra, pranayama, imagery, and affirmations for each moon cycle. Start your full month of deep relaxation and higher manifestation now.
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After months of leading live Zoom Yoga classes because yoga studios were shut down, I’ve begun to ask, “Is Zoom Yoga good for us?” and “How can we make it better?”
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As yoga teachers and yoga therapists, we may be working from an archetypal perspective. But even if we are not, we likely embody one or more archetypes as we work, whether we know it or not. As students, we may be attracted to or repelled by certain yoga teachers and the archetypes they represent. Tuning in to archetypes can enhance our experience and open depths and layers of meaning for exploration.
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Whether you are curious about yoga therapy, consider yourself a yoga therapist, or hold the C-IAYT designation by virtue of grandparenting, course completion, or portfolio review and evaluation, you may wonder, what is a yoga therapist qualified to do? And it’s a good question!
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Raising archetypal awareness is a fun way to empower your personal practice. For therapists, working with archetypes can bring another dimension to how you support others. Learn how to bring archetypes into your individual practice or work with others for greater balance and deeper meaning.
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Doubt whether Ashtanga Yoga can be truly accessible to every body? Read the confessions of an Ashtanga Teacher who admits, “It is embarrassing. I didn’t see this for a long time. But slowly I started to notice the reality of who was in my classes. And I asked myself why. . . .”
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Unfettered creative play, letting go of any desire to be perfect or make something great, can lead to powerful release of blocked expression and general anxiety. See what happened when one chronic perfectionist finally let their inner artist out to play.
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Dream Yoga is exactly what is sounds like — practicing yoga in your sleep— and it’s even harder than practicing when you’re awake. But what is "Dreambody” work and how does it relate to yoga therapy?
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Do you have a problem??? Think of a chakra as a spinning energy wheel. Sometimes a spinning energy wheel is just what you need to break through a difficult problem or situation. Here we’ll explore how to make one, the Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, a practice that combines breath, mantra, and mudra for powerful results.
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What is yoga therapy? Western medicine focuses primarily on physical healing or mental health. Yoga therapy embraces the idea that these two are profoundly interconnected. True transformation acknowledges that you can’t change just one part of yourself without affecting all other parts. Learn more about yoga therapy from yoga therapist, Jess Maitri.
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There are plenty of definitions of yoga therapy. Read about one person's real experience of a yoga therapy session.
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What are moon days and why are they days of rest in Ashtanga Yoga? Learn these top 10 reasons and what they have to do with you and your practice.
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Looking for Sun Salutation variations? From the deep traditions of Surya Namaskar, learn the essence of Sun Salutations along with accessible variations, including mudras, mantras, breath and more to connect to the light within and radiate.
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Learn how Mysore style refocuses intent on the therapeutic benefits of Ashtanga Yoga.
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Are you looking for a more effective way to deal with anxiety attacks? Learn how Meghan got more relief from a few yoga therapy sessions than many talk therapy sessions and how it changed her life for good.
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See what is making more talk therapists bring body-centered and somatic-based therapy into their practice.
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