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Traveling can be both a blessing and a curse. While exploring new destinations is exciting, long periods cramped on a plane or train can leave you aching. Worse, according to medical transportation service REVA, remaining sedentary for long hours during ...

Whether you know it or not, your life is being guided by an inner philosophy or underlying belief about the nature and purpose of living. This subconscious belief structure affects how you experience life, directing the reactions of your conscious mind in every circumstance that arises. If you feel discontent in any area of your life, it may be time to examine what your subco...

Being an athlete does not mean feeling constantly sore. Whether you are training for an event or prioritizing movement most days of the week, you do not have to carry that fatigue into tomorrow. That is why Heather Blackmon from Heather Blackmon Yoga offers a pr...

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psycho-spiritual, contemplative methodology gaining tremendous ground in the healing realms for its pithy and potent transformative potential in awakening a practitioner to the full constellation of our psyche. It’s a practice that seeks to illuminate the dynamics of young, tender and sometimes traumatized parts of ourselves that have often ...

“Begin to deepen your breath.”

How many times have you heard that phrase? If you’re a regular yoga practitioner, chances are you hear it all the time, and it probably helps you feel calmer. But, why is deepening your breath so effective?

In 2019, I found myself at Earth Yoga in Boulder for a three-day workshop with Viniyoga founder Gary Kraftsow, during which ou...