Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: Most people seem to complain about being stressed these days. The build up of stress over time can weak your immune system and lead to many health issues. Eating healthy, exercise and the practice of yoga to calm your mind are essential for reducing stress, and how you react to stressful situations in your life. Here are 10 yoga postures that you can practice at home to relax and refresh your mind and body.

 

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Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: In this short video, surfer and yoga teacher Eoin Finn, gives a beautiful metaphor about surfing the waves as being similar to going through life. He tells how living this way ultimately guided him to where he is now (a yoga teacher and more).

 

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by Tobye Hillier

Yoga is about balance; mind, body and spirit being yoked together. Although the postures are great for fitness and finding physical balance as well as mental and emotional well-being, there are other ways to find balance in our lives that will help us to become happier. Balance between our work and play is very important...

 

 

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Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: Attention all yoga enthusiasts, teachers and students. Check out this awesome yoga girls of the world music video. Written, Performed, and Produced by: Jocelyn Kay Levy & Jacquelyn Richey.

 

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Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: This is a short interview with a famous yoga instructor, Tiffany Cruikshank. The inteveiwer asks Tiffany her feelings about teaching to a huge group of strangers at something like the Hanuman Yoga  Festival. Watch to find out what Tiffany says!

 

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by Jenny Park

There are certainly no guarantees in life for perfect health, but practicing the yoga lifestyle can truly make a difference. When it comes to cancer prevention, there are preferred foods, meditation, breathing techniques (pranayama), and postures (asanas) that do wonderful things inside us that support and strengthen the immune system and major organs...

 

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: Yoga’s restorative benefits and injury prevention have long been studied and documented. It’s meditative effects on stress and calming of the mind have been praised by both wellness advocates and doctors alike. This yoga instructor discusses the revitalizing benefits that yoga has on it's practioners.

 

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Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: You've heard about the Lululemon yoga pants debacle? The Jimmy Kimmel show created a funny video about the yoga pants shortage. This will make you chuckle. Enjoy!

 

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by Brooke Nisbet, MA, RYT,
ATH Co-Editor of Yoga

When wild elephants are domesticated as babies, they are chained to a huge tree or to a thick iron stake driven deep into the ground.  This stake/tree is physically able to hold the young elephant, despite the elephant’s repeated attempts to pull free and escape...

 

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: Yoga is a full-time life. Yoga happens beyond the yoga mat. It happens as you close your eyes at night, while you're driving, when you're interacting with others, when you're silently sitting with yourself. One of the ideas in yoga is to practice non-attachment. Not being stuck to a fear,anger, sadness, joy, excitement, expectation and so on. That takes you away from living in the present moment. Being tied down to your past fears and memories can also become debilitating and depressing. Don't allow yourself to be tied down to old beliefs like an elephant tied to a simple stake in the ground. He has the strength to easily pull free at any moment, but his mind keeps him bound. How about you? What's tying you down?

 

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by Faith Hunter

Yoga is as old as civilization. It is said to stem from the oral traditions of Yogis, where knowledge of Yoga was handed down from Guru (spiritual teacher) to Sisya (spiritual student), all the way back to the originators of Yoga called "the Rishis," who first began investigation into the nature of reality and man's inner world...

 
Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: You may keep hearing that yoga goes beyond asana (poses) and beyond the yoga mat. Faith Hunger, RYT, gives us a brief overview of the true meaning of "yoga". She breaks it down into the 8 Limbs of Yoga and the 7 Paths of Yoga. This will give you a better idea of "yoga"...in a nutshell.

 

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Editor's Note from Lexi Yoga: Ever wonder what yogis think when their practicing yoga? It is ideal to only focus on your breath and movement, but it's quite a challenge to completely erase all thoughts through the whole yoga practice.Here is a funny video from The Kloons about yoga thoughts during practice.

 

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by Dr. Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500

Can Yoga make miracles happen? Can we make miracles happen? How often do you hear people hope or wish for a miracle?...

 

Editor's Note from Brooke Nisbet: The author encourages self reflection at one's own yoga practice. When you look beyond the asanas (poses) and at how you really conduct your life, you have the option to notice the good you're doing. The positivity that's all around you and the deeper awareness of joy is brought about by regular yoga practice as well. The author suggests that yoga is a system, which allows one to train the mind for those times, when we are challenged by life’s struggles. Read on to learn more!

 

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