The holiday season is upon us again, 2016 has flown by and here we are again with all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, the shopping, the giving, the hosting and the attending making it very easy to forget about YOU!
The next few weeks are a whirlwind of office parties, commitments, family celebrations that can leave you completely wiped out.
Taking care of yourself is extremely important as this ...
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Mindfulness does not conflict with any beliefs or tradition, religious, cultural or scientific. It is simply a practical way to notice thoughts, physical sensations, sights, sounds, smells. Anything we might not normally notice. The actual skills are very simple, but because it is so different to how our minds normally behave, it takes a lot of practice.
Animals and young children are very good at being mindful, in the present moment. ...
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The word “silence” doesn’t really say much. In Sanskrit there are many words for silence. “Maun” and “nishabd” are two significant words. “Maun” means silence, meaning you don’t speak; it is an attempt to create nishabd. “Nishabd” means “that which is not sound” – beyond the body and mind. Beyond sound does not mean absence of sound, but transcending sound.
In silence we can hear and clearly see our inner dialogue ...
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Meditation is about becoming one with your mind, and learning something about yourself that you may not have known before. Your practice can be as long or as short as you would like, but try to take the time to for your meditation practice every day. It is not a part of any religion; meditation is a science, which means that the process of meditation follows a particular ...
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In yoga we hear constantly about the “proper” alignment and how an asana is supposed to look. In yoga teacher training we look at the intrinsics and breakdown each posture one by one, learning different modifications and contraindications. However, there are times when certain alignment cues apply for certain bodies in certain poses and other times when they don’t. There is no universally correct alignment—there is only correct alignment for ...
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Yoga is becoming increasingly popular in the western world today, we not only have a diversity of different styles of yoga to choose from and yoga fashion brands like Lululemon, but also many artists, such as MC Yogi, Krishna Das and Dj Drez, to mention a few.
As yoga is constantly evolving there is an ongoing debate of whether music should be played ...
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Amazing!! Six weeks have already gone by since I completed evolation’s hot yoga teacher training and left the the US. Don’t they say “time flies when your having fun?” Australia’s Sunshine Coast is beautiful country, with beautiful people, amazing light, incredible energy, and of course plenty of sunshine.
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After many years of going round and round in circles, not really knowing who I really was, what I wanted to do with my life and what was my purpose on Mother Earth….I discovered YOGA….not a day would go by without practicing, it became part of me, a deep part of me, unexplainable and all I knew was that I had to do something with this passion. So, naturally the ...
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