Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: Facial yoga is quite beneficial for toning and smoothing out your facial muscles to promote youthful skin. Here is a video with some facial exercises that will increase blood flow to your face, and release tension. Practice on a daily basis for best results!

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Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: The practice of Nadi Shodhana, known as Alternate Nostril Breathing has many benefits that most people aren't aware of. This yogic breathing technique awakens and balances the energies in your secondary chakras that are located in your nostrils. This video explains the benefits and instruction of Nadi Shodhana.

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by Jeff Martens

How many Bikram teachers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three.  One to preheat the new bulb, one to screw it in and one to remind the light bulb changer to “Lockyourknees Lockyourknees Lockyourknees!”...

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: Take a break from the serious and focused side of yoga to enjoy some silly yoga jokes!

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Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: There is a free, movement side of yoga that Shiva Rea delivers as an instructor. Do you love Zumba and danicng to a good beat? Yoga instructor, Shiva Rea, has researched free form movement and gives us insight on the history of our movement (and loss of movement) and more. (Feel free to dance while you watch the video!)

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by Erich Schiffmann

You imagine a spinning top. Stillness is like a perfectly centered top, spinning so fast it appears motionless. It appears this way not because it isn't moving, but because it's spinning at full speed. Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic...

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: This is a nice reminder that getting still and quiet may be difficult, but is so worth while. The author suggests the finding that calm, quiet place within (practicing pratyahara..withdrawing of the 5 senses) will help you find your own truth, the true you. And once you've found this space, it is utterly blissful.

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by Christina Sarich
Cross-posted from WakingTimes.com

Yogic saints and sages as diverse as Matsyendranatha, Svatmarama, Patanjali, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and the more contemporary Paramahansa Yogananda, as well as others have long pointed to the effects of yoga on consciousness and biology...

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: This piece gives voice to the idea that current science is catching up with ancient yogic wisdom. This is a nice reminder that while yoga may be the "new" big thing in the west, it's not new at all in the east, and need not be viewed as such.

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by Nona Jordan
Now, here is a confession. I practiced Yoga asana and pranayama for many years before I learned ANYTHING about the other limbs of Yoga. Frankly, it just didn’t speak to me. In fact, it sort of freaked me out. I began studying Buddhism, because the language appealed to me so much more than the Yogic language. THEN I found out that Budda was a Yogi before he was the Buddha...

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: We all find a different path towards yoga. Some may stop at just the physical practice of doing asana (poses). Others may feel they most resonate with pranayama (breath focus). Others may dive fully into the 8 Limbs of Yoga. The path to get to any of these areas of yoga is different for everyone, especially if you're raised in the west. This piece gives a realistic and honest description of the author's path to the 8 Limbs of Yoga. Read on yogis!

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Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: This purification meditation cleanses away any negative thought patterns, and allows you to connect and balance your crown chakra. Enjoy!

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