How to use yoga to energize or unwind
I am not a morning person. In my early days as a yoga practitioner I would will myself into x number of sun salutations or some power yoga routine in[…]
Category: yoga for your energy
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A breathing trick: how to calm down before bed
A few weeks ago, a student complained of trouble falling asleep. You know how it goes – you are lying there awake at 2am, mind still spinning. I suggested that[…]
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What makes your heart beat? A yogic view of energy and physiology
What differentiates a living breathing human body from a cadaver? After all, the hardware is still there: heart, lungs, brain – they are just not working. If you ask a[…]
Why bother with breath in yoga?
Recently a new student asked me: “Why do we care about breath in yoga anyway?” This caused me to stumble for a moment as different possible answers rushed through my[…]
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What’s more important – your hamstrings or your liver? Panchamaya (koshas) model
My yoga teacher likes to ask: what is more important – your hamstrings or your liver? The question is not meant to undermine the importance of the structural issues that[…]
10-minute home yoga practice in the morning can shape the rest of your day
My teacher often compares regular home yoga practice with flossing. He jokes that you should only floss around the teeth that you want to keep. When I first heard this[…]
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Yogic breathing: chest to belly or belly to chest; what is the proper breathing technique?
There is an ongoing discussion in the yoga community about the directionality of the breath – do you begin your inhalation in the chest and then fill the belly or[…]
Yoga for stress relief – is relaxation really the answer?
In the recent years yoga has become a go-to tool for stress management and very often it’s being presented as “Yoga for relaxation and stress management” with an assumption that[…]
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