Blog: Yoga, Health + Wellness
Take a Moment to Pause: Tips on Managing Stress with Your Breath
Try and sit still, doing nothing, for the next 10 seconds… now 30 seconds… 60 seconds… How long can you be still without thinking of your endless to-do list or fidgeting around?
A Special Meditation Tool & Class to Support Your Sleep
Science and research will tell you that sleep is incredibly important. We need sleep. It’s not just something we can have once in a while. We rely on sleep to function, and not enough sleep can affect us: mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually.
3 Tips to Help Prevent a Dowager’s Hump
Always remember that your neck carries approximately ten additional pounds, regardless of your good or bad posture. Here are three tips to help bring strength and alignment to your spine.
Healing for Mental Illness: A Simple Tool to Relieve Anxiety
Anxiety, unease, negative thoughts… These are things that are becoming more and more prevalent in our society, and can no longer be ignored. Here is a simple, meditative breathing tool you can use to calm your mind and sort through what you are feeling.
What Are The Effects Of Yoga For My Unborn Babe?
Carrying life inside of you is a beautiful, terrifying adventure — I know. It can be overwhelming, especially if this is your first babe... Set aside those feelings for a moment to learn how you can care for both you and your babe with the relaxation and strengthening that yoga offers.
5 Simple Yoga Poses to Treat Scoliosis
Children and young adults that suffer from scoliosis can experience different symptoms such as frequent tight chestedness, imbalance, or back aches due to “bad posture”, and if not addressed these could worsen over the years as they age.
Back-to-Backs: The Science & Study Behind its Importance
Your back is one of the most important muscles in your body. It is for this very reason your back is also susceptible to a lot of aches and pains that can affect your mobility and eventually the rest of your body.
No Matter How Hard I Try
Have you ever been in the position that, ‘’No matter how hard you tried, you did not make it’’? It leaves us bewildered and a bit powerless with an internal monologue grumbling, ‘’I don’t understand, I was calm, I prepared myself, I was positive… I did all that I possibly could to work it out’’. It is then followed by, ‘’Why could I not make it work?” and, “What am I going to do about it?’’.
Proper Gut Health, Means You’ve Got Health
Have you ever felt a “gut-wrenching” sensation? Or experienced the flutter of “butterflies” in your stomach? These are key indicators that there is more to our digestive system than mere physical digestion. Gut health affects us mentally more than we realise.
How to support your health using traditional Chinese medical principles
According to Chinese medical principles, true health arises when we live in harmony with our environment and the seasons. Winter is a time when nature slows and quietens down, but most people don’t have the opportunity to slow down and and for many this becomes an even busier time of year. This takes its toll on our bodies energy and so we become more susceptible to the colds and flus. So, what can we do to help our bodies and mind adjust to this season?