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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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  • 9
    • 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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    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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  • 1
    • 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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    • 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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    • in Virtual Yoga Studio
    • — 29 Jul, 2020

    Exercise your diaphragm yoga practice

    Your diaphragm is the primary muscle of respiration; it contracts like any other muscle and can be controlled voluntarily. It is important for your diaphragm to maintain tonicity, so that[…]

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    • 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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    14
    • in yoga for your energy
    • — 8 Jul, 2020

    Nose vs mouth breathing: Which one is better for your health?

    In 2004 a documentary called Supersize me made quite a splash. In it, an independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock committed to eating at McDonalds for 30 days and documenting his experience.[…]

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  • 3
    • in Teaching tips · yoga for your energy
    • — 1 Jul, 2020

    Breath: A path to stability in uncertain times

    Over the past several months the subject of breathing had become particularly charged. We keep hearing about breathing everywhere: the phrase ‘I can’t breathe’ became a symbol of police brutality,[…]

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    2
    • in Announcements
    • — 24 Jun, 2020

    Happy Body: Yoga from Head to Toe

    Over two decades of practicing and teaching yoga, I discovered that certain movement combinations work every time to release tension in specific body areas, and simple yoga practices based on[…]

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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 Virtual Yoga Studio
    • — 10 Jun, 2020

    Lazy yoga practice

    Lately, I find myself juggling more projects and responsibilities than ever, which often means that I usually don’t have enough energy or brain power left to be creative and ambitious in[…]

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  • 5
    • in Teaching tips
    • — 3 Jun, 2020

    “Elevator pitch” for yoga teachers: How to quickly communicate to anybody what is it that you do

    For the last several weeks, my neighborhood has been having Happy Hour get-togethers on Thursday evenings to check in and make sure everybody was doing OK. We keep safe distance[…]

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    5
    • in Teaching tips
    • — 27 May, 2020

    What’s at stake for your potential yoga students?

    What is your favorite TV show right now? What is at stake for the main character of that show in every episode? What kind of tragic outcome might befall on[…]

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