Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) seem futile if you have a foot or ankle injury. Enter: Chair Sun Salutations! Traditional Sun Salutations with a Standing Forward Fold (Uttanasana), step back or jump back to Chaturanga, and rolling over the toes to Upward Facing Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana), can irritate or further damage
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Gratitude has many benefits from improving overall outlook on life to increasing confidence and helping us sleep better. Starting a gratitude practice with your kids is a great way to bond over something powerful and positive. This Is Your Brain on Gratitude: 9 Benefits of Practicing Gratitude Not sure how to get
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Finding some self-care time for an activity like postpartum yoga after giving birth isn’t always easy. More accurately, it’s often near impossible. Between caring for a newborn, sleeping when you can, and tending to any household duties, work, or other children, there often isn’t much time to breathe deeply, stretch, and
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You have the yoga mat and even a few favorite online yoga videos. You’re ready to take it a little further and want to deepen your home yoga practice but aren’t exactly sure how. If that’s you, keep reading! These ten tips will help you commit to your practice, deepen your
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Ah, the Vinyasa practitioner’s best frenemy: Chaturanga Dandasana (or Low Plank). So many of us have yet to master this elusive strength-based pose without hurting ourselves. From low back pain to shoulder impingement, “low plank” or “yoga pushup” is full of dangerous pitfalls when done incorrectly. But there are ways that
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How does a Headstand or any inversion relate to our ability to manage emotions and remain calm under pressure? One of the biggest benefits of Headstand is that it has a direct connection to being able to trigger a shift in perspective. Have you ever thought about energized calmness? Sounds like
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Have you ever found yourself in a cycle of negative self-talk? It can be hard to break and challenging to transform into something positive. But practicing Ahimsa toward yourself can be a powerful way to tend to your mental health and cultivate a more positive inner voice. How Would Your Highest
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Have you ever tried to meditate in a loud or sonically unpredictable space? Sound healing meditation is a way to tune out the external chaos and drop into the internal world. I’ve found myself meditating – or at least making my best attempt to meditate – in places like airplanes, crowded
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As the world begins to reopen, we can recall that busy, FOMO-ruled existence where making time for daily self-care practices were only aspirational and for others were essentially non-existent. For those who traditionally prioritized their me time, it looked more like dining out with friends, travelling and regular massages, facials and
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Does the idea of practicing family yoga together sound like a dream come true? Or perhaps it sounds more like a nightmare – your children protesting when you announce it’s yoga time, complaining as you roll out the mats, whining about the other things they would like to do, wondering where
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