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Category: yoga for your mind

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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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  • 7
    • 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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    5
    • 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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  • 5
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 2 Oct, 2019

    Three main forces that regulate your homeostasis and inner balance

    When my son was a baby, he used to wake up several times per night. After putting him back to sleep, I would lie in my own bed awake for[…]

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    4
    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your mind
    • — 8 May, 2019

    Six elements that make up an inspired life of a yoga teacher

    When I was going through my yoga therapist training about eight years ago, I was expected to complete a number of assignments in between training sessions. It was a struggle.[…]

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  • 4
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 23 Jan, 2019

    How to build a habit of consistent and meaningful home yoga practice

    Last week we identified three major obstacles that get in our way of making a positive behavior change (whether it’s maintaining a consistent home yoga practice, or any other action[…]

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    5
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 16 Jan, 2019

    Why is it so hard to have a consistent, meaningful and inspiring home yoga practice?

    Two weeks ago I asked you to give me feedback on the content of my blog and answer few other questions on how yoga fits into your life. Thank you[…]

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  • 24
    • in yoga for your mind · Announcements
    • — 9 Jan, 2019

    Does your yoga practice give you joy?

    My mom was a very happy and optimistic person even as she raised three daughters during times of great hardship in Russia without much money or much help from her[…]

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    6
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 26 Dec, 2018

    Find the right practice with ease: Updated Body Map for yoga practices

    Has your regular yoga practice slipped a bit through the holidays? Celebrate the New Year by restarting your home yoga practice; you can find a practice to take care of[…]

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  • 1
    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 5 Dec, 2018

    You can do yoga anywhere: situational yoga practices

    My son is really into drawing; wherever we go, I always have a notebook and a pencil ready for him. When we visited Barcelona last summer, we went to all[…]

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    5
    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 21 Nov, 2018

    How to create a short targeted yoga practice to change your mental state

    When you want to change the way you think or feel at any given moment, the first thing you need to do is identify what exactly it is that you[…]

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  • 4
    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 14 Nov, 2018

    Two main ways to change your mental state

    I find it curious that Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras does not explicitly distinguish between thoughts and emotions. The text calls all mental processes “fluctuations” and states that the main[…]

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    1
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 12 Sep, 2018

    Sleep: what it does for you and how to troubleshoot it

    In Macbeth Shakespeare states that sleep is “the chief nourisher in life’s feast.” And modern science proves that is truly is. What other miraculous remedy helps you fight infection and[…]

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  • 1
    • in Virtual Yoga Studio · yoga for your body · yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 5 Sep, 2018

    Yoga practice for better sleep

    Two years into WWII, the US military realized that due to extraordinarily high levels of stress and lack of sleep many of the combat pilots began to freeze up in[…]

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    6
    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 11 Jul, 2018

    How dreaming helps us get over traumatic experiences (or not)

    Have you ever had this experience when you get worked up about something one day and after a night of good sleep it seems much less dramatic? This happens because[…]

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  • 4
    • in yoga for your energy · yoga for your mind
    • — 13 Jun, 2018

    The emotional roller coaster of insufficient sleep

    Any parent knows that if the child begins to get cranky at the end of the day, she is tired and needs to go to bed. Sometimes we can recognize[…]

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    4
    • in yoga for your body · yoga for your mind
    • — 6 Jun, 2018

    Does early morning yoga practice help or inhibit your muscle memory?

    My son is learning to ride a bike and he is not particularly thrilled about it – right now it’s neither easy for him, nor enjoyable. This reminds me of[…]

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  • 4
    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 30 May, 2018

    Does sleep help you to remember or to forget?

    When I was in college, my classmates often pulled “all-nighters” in preparation for the exams. Yet, it never worked for me. I found that if I didn’t get enough sleep[…]

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    9
    • in yoga for your mind
    • — 23 May, 2018

    Yoga sutras about dreaming and deep sleep

    I am a big fan of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – I believe that they are full of insights that can help us better understand our experiences on a daily basis[…]

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