Yoga in Our Daily Lives: Yoga in the Real World When we first start our yoga or meditation journey, we are seeking relief. We might be drowning in stress from work. Our body may have experienced an illness or injury and we want to ease our pain. We may have suffered an emotional trauma and [...]
Increase Your Energy for Success Your current energy state is a connector to help you move forward in life. Or not. How does your energy level feel right now? Imagine you’re going to a job interview, trying to convince someone to hire you. What’s your energy like then? If you’re not enthusiastic, if you’re not [...]
Sarah Ezrin practicing yoga at home. Photo by Emilie Bers. Creating a supportive home yoga practice is essential For many of us, our home yoga practice is not just how we keep our bodies healthy or minds clear, it is our safe haven. It is where we retreat into when we need to [...]
Why has YogaToday’s Stay at Home Free Spring Yoga Challenge been the antidote for my stay-at-home torpor and quarantine quandaries? The Spring Challenge is a curated selection of 10 online classes offered free of charge on the online platform YogaToday.com. One of the things that I’ve appreciated about the opportunity to engage with these [...]
Desi Barlett and Natiya Guin share practices to increase awareness of the 5 senses. Yoga Connects us to the 5 Senses There are so many ways we can increase our awareness of the 5 senses and our sensuality throughout the day. These can include yoga practice, mindfulness, meditation, how we eat, and how [...]
Desi Barlett Photo by Natiya Guin Yoga and Sensuality: Explore the 5 Senses with Doctor Natiya Guin Life dazzles with sensuality when we connect to our five senses. Yet when we hear the word sensuality, we often associate it with sexuality, when in fact it is so much more. Learning to nourish each [...]
Savasana. Sense Withdrawal. Taking the Mind Inward. It’s one of the most important poses in a yoga class and often one of the most misunderstood. The Final Resting Pose. My teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra, includes savasana in the category of the eight essential poses in yoga. Dharma is well known throughout the world for being [...]
Did you know that over 5.8 million people in the United States are currently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia? This is projected to double in the next 20 years (per a Milken Institute report). If you know someone who’s living with this disease, you know the kind of struggle that this [...]
Sarah Ezrin and Students. Photo by Andy Blake. Yoga Teachers Can Build Community in the Studio We are in a time of great divide. How we act right now can either bring us closer together or send us further apart. It is easy to dig our heels into our respective corners and opinions, [...]
Discovering Methods of Increasing Vitality In 1977 I moved to a high desert spiritual retreat center in Joshua Tree California, called The Institute of Mentalphysics. Started by a former British journalist and geographer named John Edwin Dingle, the center flourished from the 1940s through the 1970s, teaching methods of breathing and meditation that Dingle had [...]