Tag Archives: meditation

Find the Calm in the Storm

Applying Yoga & Meditation Skills in Real Life There’s a reason people say to “take a deep breath” when someone is feeling overwhelmed, or highly emotional. The body responds to this deep breath with relaxation – a cue that now the body is safe and can take the time it needs. As a person withContinue reading “Find the Calm in the Storm”

Yoga 101 | Yoga Off the Mat

How to insert pockets of that “yoga calm” into your day. Yoga is the perfect way to practice being present. To avoid injury in yoga, we are constantly checking in with the body and tuning our self awareness. Layering on deep breathing, and then taking the yoga instructors cues into mind – we have veryContinue reading “Yoga 101 | Yoga Off the Mat”

Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?

What if you don’t live in the mountains and tend a garden for a living – how do you fit meditating into your real life? If you can believe it, my daily meditation practice started on my city bus commute to my office job. I put my headphones in, held my bag in my lapContinue reading “Meditation 101 | Who Has Time to Meditate Anyway?”

Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing

In yoga, if you can picture the pose in your mind before your body begins to find it – the pose will flow so nicely for you. In meditation, visualization is a muscle I think we can all exercise – allowing you to tap into the creative well within you. In my humble opinion, theContinue reading “Yoga & Meditation 101 | Let’s Talk About Visualizing”

Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?

Now that you have learned some yoga poses, what do you do with them? Here are some ideas: Learn a new yoga pose each week with me & expand the yoga poses that you know! I am so pleased to bring the “visual catalogue” of yoga poses to life over on my new page: #YPBContinue reading “Yoga 101 | So I learned a few yoga poses… now what?”