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5 Tips for Beginning a Yoga Practice
I often tell my yoga classes, if you have ever read a '10 things you need to know before stating yoga' list its all subjective to the person writing it. One day I will write an article called, '10 things you need to know about reading an article entitled 10 things you...
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Part 1: Living with Anxiety
Panic attacks happened, but regular anxiety? That was later. It wasn’t overnight that the fidgety restlessness would set it, it was a long honeymoon between being fine and camping out in my apartment for days at a time.
read moreGuest Post: Alyse Heads to OhmFit for Spring Fashions
By: Alyse Marin, MSY Spring Intern Do you need some new clothes to motivate you to get out and exercise or even maybe try something new, (like yoga)? OhmFit Activewear has you covered, literally! Located in Uptown Normal, OhmFit offers a variety of brands, including...
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Working with Energy: 3 Common Scenarios and how to navigate through them
Physics teaches us about the presence and effect of energy. We know energy is real because we have electricity and conduction of heat or cold. We can see the energy and how the absence of energy affects us. But what about the energy we don’t see? What about the type of energy that is transferred energetically, daily?
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Removing the Filters on Our Gaze: Finding Samadhi in Practice
The best definition of samadhi I’ve ever received is this: samadhi is achieved when all of our filters are removed. By that, I mean, everything that has shaped you; your education, gender, upbringing, whether you live in a rural area or urban, the color of your skin, your family relationship, if you have allergies, if you work with physical or health considerations, whether you have been sexually assaulted…and on and on
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Loving Yourself: the power of considering contentment
As the internet brings the world closer together, people doubt many of their decisions: Did I buy the best vacuum? Did I pick the best thing on the menu at the Cheesecake Factory? What to watch on Netflix? Am I with the right person?
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I didn’t get into yoga to lose weight: an essay on finding True North
Im not in the ‘get skinny’ business. Nor did I start practicing yoga to lose weight, if I had, I’d be a size 2. I began my practice at first, because I felt as though I had gotten lost. My moral compass and energy felt chaotic and I was beginning to spiral out of...
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Update Your Mantra: Say yes to you!
I was recently talking to a friend of mine about what pulls people away from making regular healthy choices and decisions that can ultimately change their life for the better. She had been telling me about a conversation she had with a client who came into their...
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Building Trust in Yourself: Creating Inner Dialogue to Support the Self
And a few weeks ago I was reading Deborah Adele’s The Yamas & Niyamas and in her chapter on satya (truth), she describes how we tell ourselves lies all the time. We lie to ourselves about how much time we have, what our capacity for helping can be, what we are going to do for ourselves (go to yoga, meditate, eat better, etc.), and then she asks, ‘Can you trust yourself?’
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Pounding Yourself into Submission: Yoga and Pain
Let me lay out a generic setting for you. Something that has played out many times in my few years of teaching. I’m out with my husband and we come across some people he knows from [pick a place]. I have never met these people before and after the formal...
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5 Yoga Postures to Recharge the Body and Mind
Moving through the day has its share of ebb and flow. Within that time frame, you can encounter a lot of people, work and energy that needs moved around in the body. Simply sitting still can cause stiffness and a need for movement. Even as a yoga studio owner, get...
read moreThinking of becoming a Yoga Teacher? Read this first.
Sitting with two fellow yoga teachers (both of which have multiple 500hr certifications) having lunch, the conversation turned to one of a qualifying nature. By qualifying, I mean, ‘who the hell are we to tell people what yoga is?’ This conversation can at times...
read more5 things I say to my yoga class that I wish everyone knew
By: Carmen Champion In my corporate Power Yoga class one day, a student asked me a question. This particular class is very playful and have been practicing together, to some capacity, for years. They joke, tease me and have even had bystanders make comments about how...
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I lost my Yoga at the Hardware Store: how our practice is a constant work in progress
When they finish, mom politely thanks him and she gets in the truck. With the windows down on the drive home I explain what had happened and she is supportive like Mom always is, saying something along the lines of, ‘yeah, that’s why I told you to go get the truck. I knew you were about to lose it.
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Yoga as a Mental Practice or ‘I lost my keys, now what?’
As I moved through this morning’s experience, I kept thinking about how this is my practice in action. All the sun salutations, focusing on breath, the meditation work, they are all lining myself and others up so we may begin to activate these tools during as we encounter sudden shifts in environment. And even as the solution resolved itself and the end was near, even now as I tell the story, I’m still practicing my yoga.
read moreTeacher Talk: Shoulders and Upper Back
Welcome to Teacher Talk! This week we asked our MSY teachers about their go-to postures and advice for targeting the shoulders and the upper back. Carmen: I enjoy a variation of child's pose where instead of placing the arms on the mat or by your sides, you will...
read moreTeacher Talk: the Lower Back
The muscles of the Lower Back can often become a problem area. This week, we asked our Teacher's about their "Go-To" postures and tips for loosening and softening the Lower Back: Jenny: When I have a stiff lower back I do a few pelvic rolls and it usually helps. Lay...
read moreTeacher Talk: Baddha Konasana, Bound Angle
This week's pose: Baddha Konasana or Bound Angle Here is what our teachers have to say about this great inner thigh, hip, groin, and ankle stretching pose... Olivia: This pose is oh so tricky! If your knees don't touch the floor and you feel like your muscles are...
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