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How To Make the Yamas and Niyamas Work for You in the Modern World
By Sejal Shah I Updated: July 30, 2020 Practicing yoga is much more than the postures. Learning to integrate the full “on and off the mat” practice including observing the five Yamas and Niyamas —yoga’s guide on social and personal ethics— in your daily ... -
Beyond The Body: Can Yoga Be Used To Heal Nations?
In decades past, yoga in America conjured images of a granola-crunching, Birkenstock-wearing folks who shopped organic before the rest of us. In 2016, at 36.7 million Americans practicing yoga, today’s yogis run the gamut from hippies to hipsters, from ... -
Recover from Travel Fatigue with this Rejuvenating Yoga Routine
When we travel, no matter how excited we are about our trip, when we finally arrive at our destination or return back home we can feel tired and exhausted. Travelling comes with its own share of ups and its downs. There are thrilling adventures, exciting ... -
8 Ways Yoga Helps you Travel with Ease
By Sejal Shah | Posted: December 8, 2017 Traveling is good for your soul, improve your outlook towards life, and helps you experience greater levels of happiness. But when we travel, we are away from our comfort zones and we constantly put our body, mind ... -
The Yoga of Beer? 10 Reasons Why ‘Beer Yoga’ Is A Spiritual And Health Hazard
What happens when you put mud in your milk or when you add pebbles in your food? Adding beer or alcohol into a practice as sincere and sacrosanct as Yoga is an equally absurd combination, and unhealthy to say the least. Beer Yoga is where the line is cros ... -
Live Like a Yogi for an Hour, a Day or a Lifetime
The key to peace and happiness is knowing how to “yoke” the wavering mind — this is where yoga comes in. The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root, “yug,” which means to yoke. The art and science of yoga was brought forth 5,000 years ago by Maharish ... -
5 Secrets from the Yoga Sutras to Make Your Asana Practice More Subtle and Powerful
Why should you seek the subtle, or sukshma, in your yoga practice? Have you noticed that most memorable or meaningful moments in life are not usually measurable, material, or even physical? They are always delicate and elusive — that’s what makes them pre ... -
Gratitude Yoga- 8 Yoga Poses That Kindle Gratitude on Thanksgiving
By Sejal Shah | Updated: November 23, 2020 Being thankful is for more than just Thanksgiving. Here’s how to express gratitude on the mat, so that you can start or end every day feeling blessed. “When we see that in our life, we have received far more th ... -
How to Bring Out Your Inner Beauty With Beauty Secrets From Yoga
Have you ever wished there was a secret to a beautiful you? Many scientific studies have proven that there is a strong connection between beauty, the way we breathe, the state of our mind, and our lifestyle. Our skin often reveals our unspoken emotions to ... -
Should You Always do the Asanas on the Right Side First?
You May Have Developed Some Wrong Habits Your body likes to move in the direction of the least resistance, or the way it becomes accustomed to. You walk, sit, stand, bend, and carry things in a habitual way, which may be the wrong way, such as, using one ...
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