Chakras: The Seven Windows to the Soul
“The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.” ~Anodea Judith By Anodea Judith, Ph.D. Travelers, both ancient and modern, need a good map to guide...
View Article7 Tiny Habits That Can Steal Your Happiness
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” –Norman...
View ArticleYou Can Do It All: How To Manage Stress And To Do Lists
How many times do we tell ourselves we simply don’t have enough time? Just not enough hours in the day, days in the week, months in the year, etc.; you know the drill. I know this is how many of us...
View ArticleMindful Snacking
Eating mindfully isn’t about resistance or restriction. It’s about enjoying more. Here’s a mindful-eating technique to use when you want a snack. By Jean L. Kristeller We all eat mindlessly at times—...
View ArticleMindfulness for mental wellbeing
It can be easy to rush through life without stopping to notice much. Paying more attention to the present moment – to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you – can improve your...
View Article6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
In this busy world of ours, the mind gets pulled from one place to the next, scattering thoughts everywhere and leaving us stressed, highly-strung and often anxious. Most of us don’t have five minutes...
View ArticleThe Mindful Revolution : TIME
©2014 TIME Finding peace in a stressed-out, digitally dependent culture may just be a matter of thinking differently The raisins sitting in my sweaty palm are getting stickier by the minute. They don’t...
View ArticlePowerful Video Explains Why People’s Opinions of You Aren’t Real
I’ve only recently discovered Kyle Cease but what he has to say is from the heart and true to me. Contained in this video is a beautiful reminder that our real jobs are to be ourselves and to get back...
View ArticleBody and Mind Integration
Yoga practice and meditation work extremely well together, say Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern. They show us how. Sitting on our veranda at Strawberry Hill, a mountaintop retreat in Jamaica where we are...
View Article10 Ways to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work Day
Tools – give me tools. That’s what most of the people we meet in the workplace want – tools. Tools to be more efficient, productive, effective and less stressed. Often what they want are solutions to...
View ArticleBring More Mindfulness Onto the Mat
You’re standing in Virabhadrasana I (Warrior Pose I). You actively reach through your back foot and allow your tailbone to descend away from your lower back as your arms reach up toward the ceiling. As...
View ArticleMove Your Body, Free Your Mind: A Little Yoga Makes a Big Difference
I come home on a Tuesday night. I’ve seen patients all day and gone shopping afterwards, so I’m tired. But not tired enough to account for the way I feel: disoriented, headachy (though with no real...
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