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Category: yoga for your body

  • 3
    • 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 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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  • 6
    • 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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    4
    • 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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  • 7
    • 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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    4
    • 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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  • 11
    • 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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    1
    • 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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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 26 Aug, 2020

    The mechanics of exhalation and the preferred way to exhale in yoga

    The normal unconscious exhalation is a passive process, as one simply relaxes the muscles that were engaged on the inhale. However, in our yoga practice we purposefully augment the natural[…]

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    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 19 Aug, 2020

    What is your optimal breathing rate and why it matters

    Many of your body’s physiological processes have a rhythmic nature: your heartbeat, blood pressure, digestive peristalsis, breathing rate and many others proceed in pulsating (or wave-like) fashion. Each system has[…]

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  • 10
    • in yoga for your body
    • — 12 Aug, 2020

    Gas exchange within the body: Don’t rush to get rid of carbon dioxide

    Two years ago, my family and I went to the beautiful San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands are an archipelago of about 170 islands in the Pacific Northwest between[…]

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

    The mechanics of inhalation and the proper way to inhale in yoga

    In college I majored in Russian literature, and I remember being fascinated by the sheer number of heroines in the Russian classics who would faint at the slightest sign of[…]

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  • 5
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 22 Jul, 2020

    Dual roles of your diaphragm and why they are essential in your yoga practice

    A diaphragm is the primary muscle of inhalation; it is responsible for about 75% of the air movement in normal breathing at rest (external intercostal muscles are responsible for the[…]

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    12
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 15 Jul, 2020

    Your vital lung capacity: Why is it important and how can you improve it with yoga?

    The last time I went to visit my mom, she asked me to show her some yoga moves because she wasn’t feeling too well. Once we got down to the[…]

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    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 17 Jun, 2020

    What do your students need in their yoga right now?

    Yesterday morning I was trying to do my pranayama practice, as my 9-year old was bouncing on furniture around me, my puppy was chasing his tail knocking over everything in[…]

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    9
    • in yoga for your body
    • — 18 Mar, 2020

    Ten things to do to benefit your well-being when you are home-bound

    Today I was supposed to fly to Hawaii for a part-work, part-vacation trip. I’ve been planning this trip for months, but now everything is cancelled. A lot has changed in[…]

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  • 0
    • in yoga for your body
    • — 6 Nov, 2019

    How to relieve tension in your neck and upper back

    Last week we explored three main reasons that produce neck tension. The main question is – how do we deal with different kinds of neck and upper back tension and achieve long-lasting[…]

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    2
    • in yoga for your body
    • — 30 Oct, 2019

    What could possibly be going on with your neck? Three main reasons for neck tension

    What do you do when you are startled, or if you hear, see, smell or sense something unusual? You immediately turn your heard toward it to see what’s going on.[…]

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    • in yoga for your body
    • — 23 Oct, 2019

    What causes neck stiffness and tension headaches and how we can deal with them

    Do you ever get tension headaches? This feeling of a tight band wrapped around your head? Or maybe a localized throbbing at the very base of your skull that you[…]

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    10
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy
    • — 16 Oct, 2019

    How to deal with your daily ups and downs: The four R’s of restoring connection

    Couple of months ago my husband and I went to see a play. It ran long, we hit traffic on the way back home, and instead of being away for[…]

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