Holiday time can be a wonderful break from everyday routines. For some though, they involve travel and the distance from practice makes the heart grow fonder!! How to take your yoga practice on the road? Check out my top 5 tips.
Remember the easiest pose is savasana!
“Yoga is the Uniting of Consciousness in the Heart” ~ Nisch
ala Joy Devi
I love this image. It is a nice analogy to see thoughts as passing clouds, and the mind as the big blue sky behind them…maybe not all thoughts are of love or loving things, but let this remind us to stay uplifted, be uplifted, and look to be uplifted! Feel this as you lift your heart, relax your shoulders and allow yourself to focus on a calm breath
A balanced Yoga practice allows my mind to rest in stillness.
If you want to learn how, even just a simple seated pose, a few shoulders shrugs and some calm breathing will give you a much needed brain holiday!
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change” – Wayne Dyer Self-explanatory, right?! In terms of Yoga postures, inversions typically help us see things differently. If you practice the headstand you will definitely see whether there is any dirt under the bed! Kidding aside, gift giving season is a really tough one if you focus on what you don’t have and can’t afford. I like the image of flipping a perspective as if it were a pancake. You can do this by taking a few moments to sit still and breathe, walk outside in nature, go to a museum, donate food to a foodbox or a toy to an orphan…whatever you never do and/or enjoy. Give your regular mind a rest, and get in touch with the new perspective that is waiting to be uncovered so that you can literally ‘count your blessings’.
Really? Ladies! Seriously this is too cute not to remind us that regular practice of yoga can reverse the aging process. 
Actually this pose (halasana/plow pose) has several other benefits:
-Calms the brain
-Stimulates the abdominal organs and the thyroid gland
-Stretches the shoulders and spine
-Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
-Reduces stress and fatigue
-Therapeutic for backache, headache, infertility, insomnia, sinusitis
There are some really great ways that props can be used therapeutically to help bring the pose closer to your…flexibility level…Yes…so be fit and fab as you hit forty + ! Get your yoga on soon:-)
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“Yoga Therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practice of yoga” – International Association of Yoga Therapists (definition 2011)
“Almost all experts agree that prevention of osteoporosis is more effective than treatment” – Loren Fishman, MD, and Ellen Saltonstall , Yoga For Osteoporosis
“According to yogic texts, regular practice of Pranayama prevents and cures diseases” – B.K. S. Iyengar, Light on Pranayama
“heyam duhkhamanagatam: Future suffering should be avoided” –Patanjali, Sutra 11.16, The Essence of Yoga by Bernard Bouanchaud
STOP – take a breath, exhale completely
LOOK – inside, be aware
LISTEN – for guidance, the voice of instinct or just common sense Continue reading
Dear readers, I am happy to share with you an email and article written by David Haas.He recently contacted me and I am honored and excited to post this on his behalf. Cancer has touched my personal and professional spheres in different ways – perhaps yours too- and awareness is healing on many levels Continue reading 
“Aversion is the consequence of displeasure
duhkhanusayi dvesah” -Patanjai- Yoga Sutra 11.8
“Repulsion, or aversion, is based on past experience and the mental permeation that follows it. Whether conscious or not, it remains sealed in the memory, taking no account of the way the situation has evolved”. – Bernard Bouanchaud, The Essence of Yoga
“Consistent asana and meditation practice will improve the way your energy flows, and this will change the way you experience yourself – transforming the way you perceive and relate to the world” – Erich Schiffmann, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness Continue reading