When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. […] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what concealed it. So too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work…
For the past five weeks, I offered mini inversion sequences as a means of alleviating depression and anxiety through overcoming fear. The result in the body and mind is a greater sense of calm. Believe it or not, when practised…
When we drop our head below our heart, as in yoga inversions, we flip our perspective through a physical act. Turning ourselves upside down teaches us that our predictable reactions to the outside world are not the only way. In…
Peace is all around us – in the world and in nature – and within us – in our bodies and in our spirits. Once we learn to touch this peace, we will be healed and transformed. It is not…
A growing body of research continues to illustrate the benefits of yoga postures that turn us upside down. These inversions affect the central nervous systems in such a way that not only is our mood elevated but the muscle tone…
Prior to our current COVID circumstances, I wrote of research proving that yoga poses incorporated with regulated breath work (pranayama) drastically reduced depressive symptoms. Interestingly, there is a known correlation between depression and anxiety, which realizes that reducing one reduces…
Are you struggling with a sense of insecurity and powerlessness? The increased level of uncertainty given the many unknown factors related to COVID 19 can heighten one’s feelings of stress and uneasiness. Healing traditions such as reflexology link middle back…
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