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Transforming Fear to Joy

Right to Joy - Blog Author: Helen Maupin

YOGA ACTIONS for Wall Stretch

Learning to stand on both your feet and hands is a life-affirming teaching in yoga. Of course, we begin with what we already think we

A Yoga Teaching: Present Moment Awareness

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali provide threads of wisdom to guide and support those on the journey to enlightenment (to attaining spiritual knowledge or insight).

YOGA ACTIONS for Unstable Knees

Over a year ago, I tore the meniscus in my left knee and reinjured it on several occasions since. Reinjury combined with a lack of

A Yoga Teaching: No One To Be

Many years ago, a wise person told me “We are all on a spiritual journey.” When I considered these words, I could readily accept that

YOGA ACTIONS for Ardha Adho Mukha Vrksasana

When our body experiences physical, mental, or emotional stress, it releases hormones that produce cortisone and adrenaline in the bloodstream. Once circumstances return to ‘normal’,

A Yoga Teaching:  Reacting versus Responding

In asana practice, yoga postures balance our outer structure (physical body) and cleanse our inner energy channels (nadis). As our practice matures, we reveal where

YOGA ACTIONS for Adho Mukha Svansana

Arguably, the asana most commonly associated with yoga is Downward-facing Dog. It can take yogis many years to master this posture given its requirement to

A Yoga Teaching: Ego versus Intuition

In 2000, when I began my yoga journey, one of the first teachings confronting my “rationally” trained mind was this — if we seek wisdom

YOGA ACTIONS for Virabhadrasana III

Meditation can be a helpful tool to unravel complex emotions. By looking directly at the anger, you start to strip away the stories, focusing instead

Yoga in Every Day Life

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras teach us that yoga is both a practice with methods and tools as well as a state of being — more familiarly