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A student recently asked me for a recommendation about protein powder. There are SO many options out there to choose from - I understand it may be hard to choose!
I have tested many of the organic options and can highly recommend two different ones - depending on which flavor you...
One of my students, Katie Probst, wrote this beautiful article years ago about the difference between yin yoga and restorative yoga. I hope you enjoy reading, and find it helpful...
What's the difference between yin yoga and restorative yoga?
-by Katie Probst
To an outside observer yin yoga and...
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On the east coast of the US, where I live, the days are getting shorter and many of us are starting to feel the effects of less daylight.
The yin yoga sequence at the end of this blog post will bolster our inner light and hold space for the difficult feelings that naturally come up...
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If you're like billions of other people, you spend most of your day thinking.
Thinking serves us human beings SO well.
But too much thinking, especially without conscious movement breaks, can cause anxiety, headaches, and digestive distress.
Through the yin yoga poses to...
I love analogies. They help me understand complex and subtle topics so that I can feel more clear about a subject.
When it comes to the human body, there's SO much going on that it can be hard to understand what the heck is happening in there?!?!
Here's an analogy I came up with...
Learning how to heal our anxiety is crucial - for our own health and wellbeing, as well as for the health and wellbeing of our children.
There is so much to be anxious about.
But thankfully, there are time-tested, holistic, and effective ways to work with anxiety.
All is not lost.
We are lucky...
What does it mean to befriend our anxiety? I think it's natural to want anxiety to go away, right?
However - the only way to heal anxiety is to feel it. To feel something, or relate to something, you have to have a friendly attitude toward it.
No more calling it "bad" or...
You've probably heard that *other* proverb that comes from Plato (around 380 B.C.) that says "necessity is the mother of invention."
But I disagree. I think SILENCE is the mother of invention.
I've seen over and over again that if I meditate or do yin yoga in a way where I...
There are so many wonderful, unique ways of working with anxiety in a holistic way.
Yin yoga is my personal favorite because of how it activates the right brain and can increase the flow of lymph around the entire brain.
In the sequence below you'll see a list of 6 yin yoga postures that...
Most people start my classes with 2 yoga blocks that they buy from Target or Marshalls, a thick, warm blanket that they already have at home, and a tennis ball. Those things will work fabulously for about 80% of the postures I'll teach you. However, there are some postures that require different,...
Kitchari is a warm, easy-to-digest Ayurvedic staple food made with rice and lentils. It's the perfect food to eat when the weather starts to get cold and you want something comforting but not too heavy.
You could think of kitchari like the Indian equivalent of rice and beans, but made with spices...
