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  • How to infuse your yoga practice with meaning: Devata Yoga

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  • Mudra in a supporting role: How to use mudras to help manifest the intention of your practice

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  • Mudra in a leading role: How to organize an entire practice around a mudra

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  • How we can use mudras to affect our energy, psychology and spirituality

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  • Can we use hand gestures to change how we feel? Neurological impact of mudras

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  • Three types of digestive discomfort and what we can do about them in yoga

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    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 14 Apr, 2021

    How to infuse your yoga practice with meaning: Devata Yoga

    In our home yoga practice and in our work with our students, we always seek to make the yoga practice personal and relevant to the practitioner. This can only happen[…]

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    • in How to design a practice
    • — 7 Apr, 2021

    Mudra in a supporting role: How to use mudras to help manifest the intention of your practice

    Last week we discussed how you can organize an entire practice around a mudra, if you give your mudra a leading role in your yoga practice. A mudra can also[…]

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    • in Sequencing basics · How to design a practice · yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 31 Mar, 2021

    Mudra in a leading role: How to organize an entire practice around a mudra

    Since most mudras are simple hand gestures, they are pretty easy to integrate into one’s yoga practice. What we try to avoid is making a mudra an afterthought, something that[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 24 Mar, 2021

    How we can use mudras to affect our energy, psychology and spirituality

    The word “mudra” is most often used to describe a particular hand gesture, but there are also face mudras and whole-body mudras. According to the yoga tradition, mudras have multiple[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 17 Mar, 2021

    Can we use hand gestures to change how we feel? Neurological impact of mudras

    I noticed that when I start my day with news, social media or to-do lists, the whole day is marked with a tinge of urgency and mild agitation. But if[…]

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    • in yoga for your body
    • — 10 Mar, 2021

    Three types of digestive discomfort and what we can do about them in yoga

    When you plan to use your yoga practice to aid digestion, images of deep twists might begin to crowd your mind. We’ve been conditioned to believe that twists are great[…]

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    • in Virtual Yoga Studio · yoga for your energy
    • — 3 Mar, 2021

    Regulate your physiology: Standing Five Vayus practice

    There is a series of eight sequential movements in qigong called “eight pieces of brocade” or “eight silken movements” that has been around for hundreds of years. Individual movements of[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 24 Feb, 2021

    Four yoga practices for strong immunity

    Your immune system is complex and multilayered. It includes seemingly unrelated parts of your body, like skin, mucus and tears; a range of organs and tissues, like bone marrow, thymus,[…]

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    • in Announcements
    • — 17 Feb, 2021

    NEW: Sequence Wiz Student Management System for yoga teachers and yoga therapists

    When I was little, I liked to play doctor. I would examine my dolls and write down their symptoms on the mailing labels that I had snatched from the post[…]

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    • in Teaching tips
    • — 10 Feb, 2021

    SOAP Notes: A Structured Approach to Yoga Therapy Documentation

    When we work with yoga students one-on-one, it is essential to keep detailed notes of our work. Those notes help us determine students’ challenges and strengths; develop an appropriate plan[…]

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    • in Teaching tips
    • — 3 Feb, 2021

    The art of observation in yoga: Reading the student’s body story

    Our bodies reflect our personal stories and our journeys, both physical and psychological. They hold traces of our daily movement patterns, history of injuries (physical and emotional), and hints of[…]

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    • in Teaching tips
    • — 27 Jan, 2021

    What you need to know about your new student and how to get it

    Every time a new student comes to yoga, the teacher needs to develop some understanding about who this person is and what they need. It is particularly important if the[…]

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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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