Is Your Mind Full? Mindfulness Tips for Hyperactive People
Are your body and mind resistant to meditating in stillness? These mindfulness tips for hyperactive people focus and calm the mind even during motion.
Meditation
Just because you struggle with sitting still doesn’t mean you can’t meditate. Here you can explore various meditation styles and techniques that allow you to meditate with movement, mantras, mindfulness, and more.
Tap into your inner stillness with our calming videos and programs of guided meditation for every intention you desire. Discover how even just 10 minutes can give you the profound benefits of meditation to find calm, clarity, and purpose in daily life.
A Shiny Yoga How-To Guide: 5 Reclined Bound Angle Pose Variations
Reclined Bound Angle Pose gently opens the heart and stretches the spine and hips. Here are five Reclined Bound Angle Pose variations for you to practice.
Becoming The Mountain: Why We Need To Redefine Success
Do you have a ‘conquest’ approach to life—focusing on goals & achievements as a way to define success? Here’s why we need to stop seeing life as a conquest.
The Biggest Myth About Meditation
Is meditation really about quieting the mind and stopping the flow of your thoughts? Let’s look at meditation’s biggest myth and why it’s not 100% true.
3 Suggestions for Quieting Your Inner Critic
Do you have a habit of self-criticism and always focusing on what’s “wrong” and imperfect? Try these 3 tips to silence your inner critic and find self-love.
Finding Your Balance Between Effort and Surrender
I was walking down a beach recently, when I turned my attention towards the sand beneath my feet. Usually, in a moment as this, I’m transfixed by the horizon—the wave
How Yoga Builds Empowerment and Self-Reliance
Why do you do yoga? There are many different answers, but they all share a similar trait: SELF-EMPOWERMENT. We do yoga to help ourselves heal, to empower ourselves to feel better,
How to Meditate on Your Fear
During a recent yoga class, a yoga instructor gave me a firm adjustment in Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (Bridge Pose). Upon feeling my body fight back in response, she announced, “Oh.
Muse Headband Helps Users Meditate
A new piece of wearable technology is helping users find their focus using their own brainpower—and a little help from a headband. The Muse, touted as a “brain-sensing headband” by
Moving Mountains: A Meditation on Tadasana
Tadasana roots your awareness into the now. When you achieve presence in the moment, you grasp onto nothing, releasing attachment and the anxieties of the future, as well as the
Non-Attachment…NOT Un-Attachment
There are many yogic principles, both modern and ancient, that we as practicing yogis try our best to uphold. It’s one of the defining marks of the yogic lifestyle and
Off The Mat Yoga: Make Each Day a Prayer
First—let’s define what a prayer is. If you’re like me, when you hear the word “prayer,” you conjure images of a kneeling devotee, palms clasped tightly, mumbling an outdated form
5 Reasons To Practice ‘Advanced’ Asana
Advanced asana is everywhere nowadays. You can’t scroll through your Instagram without seeing a bikini-clad handstand pop into your feed. Now, fashion choice aside, I’m beginning to think these yogis
A Simple, Quick-Start Guide to Meditation
By this point, we have all heard about the countless benefits of meditation—peace of mind, increased focus, clarity, and relaxation, and even decreased blood pressure, just to name a few.
15 Not-So-Usual Places Where You Can Sit And Meditate
Park benches, by a fountain, or under your desk… all unusual places where you can meditate! Meditation isn’t just for the mat. Try them out!
Why Your Heart Connects You To The Universe
Every morning, I try to do this thing. I lie in bed with my hand over my heart and I listen. I tell myself I am safe and I move
How To Turn Your Yoga Practice Into A Gratitude Meditation
As gratitude continues its rage (or rather spread of the looove) across the Internet, sometimes it can seem more of a duty than a joy to find things to appreciate
Why ‘Hamsa’ Is The Most Versatile Meditation Mantra
So, we all have heard that meditation is a good thing. A meditation practice can help us de-stress, gain focus, enhance clarity, and in general has a positive effect on
The Inclusive Practice Of Yoga: Accepting Any And ALL Applicants
I was fortunate enough to grow up with an active lifestyle as a kid. I rode horses all throughout childhood, swam and ran in high school, and took up rock
Yoga in the West: Is it Making a Difference?
Yoga in the West is a complex phenomenon. Whereas at its roots, it is traditionally a life path—a journey through the self, leading one to true awareness of that self—in