5 Reasons You Should Slow Down Your Asana Practice
It’s so easy to totally sidestep all the amazing, transformative powers of asana practice. So here are my top 5 reasons why slowing down will benefit you.
Ali Washington
5 Reasons You Should Practice Dolphin Pose
Dolphin pose is one of the most highly effective and underused strength and stability-building poses in yoga. Here are five reasons to practice this pose.
5 Health Benefits of Legs Up the Wall Posture
Viparita Karani or Legs Up the Wall improves circulation, stimulates digestion, and calms the mind. Here are five benefits of Legs Up the Wall Posture.
5 Reasons Vinyasas Rule
For me, going a day without doing a few vinyasas is like going a day without drinking water. Here are five reasons you should practice vinyasas every day.
Why Gratitude Can (and Will!) Break Your Cycle of Stress
Now you may have heard this sentence said in a way that was meant to make you feel badly about complaining. You may have been lectured on how much we have, how rich we really are, how there are people out there starving and dying and we get upset about our iPhone breaking or not being able to get a clear internet connection. Read on to find out why gratitude will break the stress cycle
5 Reasons To Do Your Yoga Teacher Training
One of the greatest blessings that yoga has given me was actually through my yoga teacher training. I can honestly say that it transformed my life in more ways than
Why You Should Always Follow The Nudges
My grade 5/6 teacher Mrs. Lake was a bonafide lover of the written word. She had a book with her at all times, she made "silent reading" time a daily
Why You Shouldn’t Go On A Diet
People have various reasons for going on a “diet” or “weight loss plan” or “a new healthy eating program.” The main reason for most is that their desire to change
5 Ways To Start A Self Care Routine
I’m so much better than I used to be at taking care of me, and my life is so much better for it. Here are my top five tips for starting a self care routine.
5 Ways To Make The New Year Rock!
Happy New Year! Tis the season for tones of resolutions, big life goals, aspirations for change and plans for a better tomorrow. All of that is well and good, but
5 Yoga Fails You Can (Probably) Not Avoid
Most of us would like to think that yoga is this beautiful, graceful practice where body and breath unite and postures flow into and out of one another like a
How To Get On The Yoga Mat When You Don’t Feel Like It
There are going to be days where your yoga practice feels like flying. Where you are chomping at the bit to get on your mat all day at work, or
5 Life Lessons I Learned From Handstand
The process of learning handstand has taught me some valuable life lessons. Here are just five of them.
5 Health Benefits Of Yoga Twists
Twists are one of my very favorite groups of postures. As someone who has dealt with a lot of digestive upset in my life, learning yoga twists has been a
5 Yoga Postures To Improve Digestion
Yoga famously relieves stress, calms the mind, and eases back pain, and it also treats digestive issues. Here are five yoga postures to improve digestion.
Should You Have A Yoga Diet?
When we consider the yoga of eating, most people will turn to the Yamas as written by Pantajali in the Yoga Sutras. We read in the Sutras that we are
10 Awesome Health Benefits Of Headstand
There are lots of benefits of headstand, or Sirsasana. Here are 10 of our favorites! If you feel ready, healthy, and stable, try practicing it every day.
7 Reasons Why Inversions Rock
Inversions are not just fancy acrobatic looking postures that rock star yogis and yoginis do. In fact, I believe that most any one can benefit from including an inversion or
5 Easy Ways To Start Meditation Now
In the second of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, he states that yoga is the practice of calming the fluctuations of the mind — Stopping the to and fro oscillations of
Tune Into Your Breath Now…
In yoga asana practice we are often reminded by our steadfast instructors to draw our minds to our breaths. This is often much easier said than done. When you are