Tag: niyamas

The Big 6 Yoga Poses – a gift of vitality

When we move past a place of “just enough” into excess, our energy and vitality is replaced with lethargy.  Brahmacharya is the practice of using our energy wisely rather than over-indulging.  Whether we are eating, working, sleeping or exercising, there…

Helen Maupin

The Big 6 Yoga Poses — gifts of non-violence and truth

Last week, I encouraged you to take on a weekly practice of restoring and loving yourself through yoga.  To support you in your experience, I commit to designing a 10-week practice series utilizing the Big 6 Poses in their many…

Helen Maupin

Easing into Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II Pose)

The Yoga Sutras outline a plan for living that flows from actionto knowledge to liberation. Rolf Gates & Katrina Kenison The Yoga Sutras are spiritual aphorisms threaded together as guides for yogis committed to practising the experiential science and philosophy…

Helen Maupin

Shapeshifting with Yoga

On August 17, I teach my annual five-day yoga retreat. This whole-being intensive is meant to build capacity and release tension by tapping into every bodily system or sheath — physical, energetic, mental-emotional, spiritual including our bliss or joy. This…

Helen Maupin

Alone and Lonely? Three “Tried & True” Cures for Both

In order to discover what his constituents’ health concerns were, Vivek Murthy, former US Surgeon General, went on a “listening tour” to many of his American communities.  The stories he heard, in answer to his question “How can I be of help?”, uncovered what Murthy coined as a loneliness epidemic.

Helen Maupin

Talent + Discipline = Self-Mastery

When we develop our self-awareness, we are strengthening our ability to make healthy choices and evolve self-mastery.  In other words, our awareness of our inner experience, in the present moment, overrides our addictive dependencies or co-dependencies on another person.  As…