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What Makes You Hold Your Breath?
This morning in my detox yoga workshop, our homework assignment was: "What makes you hold your breath?" The idea is to identify stressors as they happen--the kind that literally cause us to stop...
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What Makes You Breathe Deeply?
Yesterday I wrote about noticing when stress causes you to shut down your...Read the full post here »
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Fresh Morning: Notice, Accept, Act
Last week I took a most lovely yoga workshop than ran every morning. In it, the teacher asked us again and again to notice when we got so stressed we actually stopped breathing. Like the Buddhist-ish...
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More Sex = Better Habits and More Health and Happiness?
My yoga colleague friend Sadie Nardini (of the Bon Jovi chant) has gotten a little press on a...Read the full post here »
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New Study Alert: Yoga Eases Inflammation
It looks like you can add one more health benefit to yoga's long list. This one is about reducing inflammation, a firey condition that arises from stress and other factors and makes us vulnerable to...
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Fresh Morning: Lemon Water
Many years ago a friend who was starting to do yoga (yet to be anywhere near the everywhere-you-look phenom it is today) told me about her discovery: Start every day with warm lemon water. She said it...
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Expanding with YoGA at the MoMA
I usually make an annual birthday pilgrimage to the Museum of Modern Art to check out the Waterlillies, parts of the Monet series that adorn freshman dorms and dentists' offices everywhere. I sit and...
View ArticleThe Subtext of Savasana
Just this morning as I was lying in savasana at the end of yoga class (the chill-out corpse pose that allows you to integrate the active poses), I kept catching myself thinking about coffee and work...
View ArticleBrain Break: Stuffed Animal Yoga
Found this gem on My Itchy Third Eye, a beloved blog of yoga snark that ends this week. Its author Yoga Dawg is putting his energy back into painting. We wish him oodles of blessings and luck and thank...
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Yoga for Prisoners
The "freedom" people talk about attaining through yoga is now completely literal, with a program in India that lets inmates out a little sooner if they develop a regular yoga practice. As gleaned from...
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