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  • Why do students come to yoga? Surface vs under-the-surface needs

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    • in Teaching tips
    • — 20 Jan, 2021

    Why do students come to yoga? Surface vs under-the-surface needs

    When students arrive in our yoga classes and private yoga sessions, they usually have a particular obvious reason for seeking our services. It often involves pain or limited mobility in[…]

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    • in Teaching tips
    • — 13 Jan, 2021

    Self-Care: Because Healing Begins with the Health of Your Self

    Several months ago I was asked to write an article for Yoga Therapy Today exploring self-care options for yoga therapists. I was thrilled to do it. I used this opportunity[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 6 Jan, 2021

    Zoom in Within: Explore the inner workings of your physiology

    The beginning of a new year always gives us an opportunity to organize our thoughts about what we plan to focus on in the upcoming year. What is most important[…]

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    • in Announcements
    • — 23 Dec, 2020

    Happy Holidays!

      2020 has been a year like no other. It pulled us out of our routines and made us reevaluate our priorities. Hopefully, along the way, we learned a lot about ourselves[…]

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    • in Announcements
    • — 16 Dec, 2020

    New resource to expand your teaching repertoire

    A great big thank you to all of you who completed our Reader Survey! I take your feedback to heart and will use it to guide my publishing choices next[…]

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    • in Announcements
    • — 9 Dec, 2020

    Happy Holidays! Win a free yoga course

    Thank you for reading our articles! We hope that you have a bright and safe holiday season. As we look ahead to 2021, please help us understand what you are[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 2 Dec, 2020

    Goodbye 2020, hello 2021!

    This year certainly turned out to be like no other. At times it felt like it was dragging on, yet it’s somehow surprising that it is almost over. Faced with[…]

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    • in Virtual Yoga Studio
    • — 25 Nov, 2020

    Learn to listen within: Body appreciation practice

    Many years ago, I took an anatomy and physiology course in college. I went in hoping to learn more about the muscularskeletal system and came out fascinated by this infinitely[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 18 Nov, 2020

    The three-pronged approach to healing: Befriending the sensations in our bodies

    I used to have a student who would quickly bounce his knee up and down when seated. The first time he caught me looking at his knee, he said: “I[…]

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    • in yoga for your energy
    • — 11 Nov, 2020

    Breath control options in yoga

    There are many ways to control breath in our yoga practice. I put them into a comprehensive chart to remind you of all the options you have and to help[…]

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    • in yoga for your energy
    • — 4 Nov, 2020

    Fundamentals of working with breath

    If you want to learn to play Mozart on a piano, you need to learn the musical notes first. The same applies to your breath. Before you can begin experimenting[…]

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    • in Announcements
    • — 28 Oct, 2020

    Breathe to Live: Yoga for Energy and Vitality

    There are two feelings that I keep coming back to throughout this pandemic. The first one is the feeling that my world had shrunk a lot. Previously my life felt[…]

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    • in yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 21 Oct, 2020

    The magic powers of Kapalbhati: Are they real?

    Kapalbhati (Skull shining) is one of those interesting techniques that can either help you or harm you, depending on how you do it. Many articles on Kapalbhati tout its perceived[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 14 Oct, 2020

    Purify your body: Six yogic cleansing practices (shat kriyas)

    I did my first 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training course at Mt Madonna Center in Santa Cruz, California twenty years ago. Mt Madonna center is a residential community that was established[…]

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    • in yoga for your energy
    • — 7 Oct, 2020

    Three yoga models that describe different aspects of prana flow

    The Western medical tradition has adopted a “zoom in” approach to our health and wellness. It divides the body into organ systems that have specific missions and perform coordinated activity.[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 30 Sep, 2020

    What is prana and why we need to harness it

    In yoga, breathing is closely linked with the concept of prana, or life force. Prana is said to be the force that animates all living things. Prana is a manifestation[…]

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    • in Virtual Yoga Studio
    • — 23 Sep, 2020

    Yoga practice with humming: Feel your inner resonance

    At the beginning of a class, I often ask my students to close their eyes and sense the quality of their energy. Then I ask them to show me their[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 16 Sep, 2020

    Hum your way to health: How to naturally increase nitric oxide in your body

    With COVID-19 still wreaking havoc around the world, the race for the treatment is on. Different organizations use different strategies to combat the virus. Just last week a biotechnology startup[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 9 Sep, 2020

    To hold or not to hold? Is breath holding detrimental or beneficial to your body?

    Do you hold your breath while typing, emailing or texting? Apparently, this is such a common occurrence, that Linda Stone, a writer and speaker, had coined a phrase “screen apnea”,[…]

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    • in yoga for your body
    • — 2 Sep, 2020

    How to combine breath and movement in your yoga practice

    Time and time again I see new yoga students being confused about whether to do a certain movement on the inhale or the exhale. “How does it go?” – they[…]

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