In a Yoga Journal article I read not too long ago, the author outlined ideas on stress and the body, including how it affects our energy levels. Most experts agree that the adrenals play a pivotal role in maintaining everyday energy levels. Cortisol is your main stress hormone. In healthy individuals, cortisol runs on a...
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging. —JON KABAT-ZINN For this session, when we’re in the moment and do our best, we know that the future will take care of itself. During the meditation, we will experience sounds and...
All during August, National Wellness Month focuses on self-care, managing stress and promoting healthy routines. Create wholesome habits in your lifestyle all month long and see how much better you feel! Research has shown self-care helps manage stress and promotes happiness. Whether you challenge yourself to a new yoga pose or try a different spa...
Sound Healing Meditation from July 24, 2022 Watch the latest Sound Healing Meditation. Our session today invites us to breathe, and to foster kindness by using phrases similar to loving-kindness. During the meditation, we will experience sounds and vibrations of the singing bowls and instruments. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard...
In an article in Yoga Journal, Judith Hanson Lasater shares how you can take a refuge from the busyness and stress. As she says, “(refuge) is not about running away, but rather it is about deciding what you want to move toward. Refuge is not dependent upon a location at all. Rather, it is actually...
I know for me, even with a mindfulness meditation practice since 1980, I can still at times be swayed by habitual actions, chores, and activities without granting too much attention to them. It’s an auto-pilot that we probably all know so well. We become caught up in the “doing” of activities or even in our...
Sound Healing Meditation from July 10, 2022 Watch the latest Sound Healing Meditation. Our session today invites us in meditation to find a quality we would like to embody so that we may facilitate change within to share without. During the meditation, we will experience sounds and vibrations of the singing bowls and instruments. We...
Guided Rest Improves Sleep, Reduces Pain & PTSD and Decreases Stress & Anxiety As we watch in horror about a recent news event and global human suffering manifesting in various forms it seems to continually bombard us and we can feel the effects. In fact, we are exhausted, perhaps more anxious than usual, and our...
Day to day, we are bombarded and easily influenced by social media, advertisements, and the voices in the back our mind from long ago. Those voices that denigrate, criticize, belittle us as well as compare us to others. Those voices keep us searching for what is outside of us that might make us happy as...
In our Mindful Book Group online yesterday, I shared a mindful body scan and RAIN practice to help us with any emotions we may have been feeling with the Supreme Court’s decision. We took about 35 minutes to do so and then opened to a sharing in the support of our sangha. It’s important that...
I LOVE Restorative yoga! This type of resting yoga is what assisted me in my journey several years ago when I became extremely ill with mold-associated illness and its resulting challenges of fibromyalgia, fatigue, lack of concentration, IBS, and respiratory response, increased chronic migraine (which I had since age 13) to name a few. By...
No matter how enlightened we may get, there will always be people who rub you the wrong way, are troublesome or difficult. There is no reason to become a doormat when this occurs. These “difficult” people can show us where we can develop and grow as human beings. Yes, sometimes it feels like we are...
