Tag: breath awareness

Breathe Your Way Out of Depression and Anxiety

For millennia, yogis practised asanas (poses) as well as breath regulation (pranayama) for whole-being wellness.  As mind-body-spirit beings, humans are more complex entities than merely a physical body or a collection of emotions and thoughts.  Nonetheless, western medical practices still…

Helen Maupin

Practice + Non-attachment = Navigation Skills for Being Human

Both practice and non-attachment (nonreaction) are required to still the mind.  Yoga Sutra 1.12 For millennia, the yoga sutras have provided its practitioners with aphorisms or truths meant to increase understanding and provide direction with regard to the mystery of…