Have you found yourself cooking from home a lot more while under quarantine? Getting tired of eating the same old things and looking for a little inspiration? I thought I’d share some of the meals my husband and I have been cooking over the past few weeks. While I’m a big fan of eating leftovers …
Wellness
6 Easy Steps To Improve Your Posture
Do you sit at a desk or work on a computer all day? Are you looking down at your phone right now to read this? Are you feeling and seeing the effects of aging in your body, ie. hunched shoulders or osteoporosis? Our posture affects everything: our lung capacity; hormone production; spine, jaw + headache …
7 Reasons Why Balance Becomes More Difficult As We Age
Updated June 2022 Some of you may have heard me mention the year-long Yoga Wellness Educator training I am in the midst of taking. Although I’ve been teaching for over 20 years, there is always so much more to learn. This training is a great source of continuing education for me, especially because most of …
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Spring Cleaning Challenge, Week 8: Samskaras
For the final week of our Spring Cleaning session here at The Yoga Room, we worked with the yogic concept of Samskaras on our yoga mats. According to Michael Singer in the book The Untethered Soul, Samskara is a Sanskrit word meaning impression, and in the yogic teachings it is considered one of the most …
Spring Cleaning, Week 3: Tapas & Agni
This post was edited on 3/21/22 to add more content. Sorry, no, I’m not talking about spanish food! The tapas I am referring to here is the discipline, effort, challenge or sometimes even hardship that we go through for the sake of change, growth or to move forward. It is a fiery resolve, pointed strength, …
The Spring Cleaning Challenge: Week 2
As we continue to work on our own personal cleanses (see previous ‘Join the Spring Cleaning Challenge’ blog post for more details!), this week our yoga practice here at The Yoga Room focused on our lymphatic system. Lymph is the clear, watery fluid that moves through the body picking up bacteria and viruses and filtering …
Join the Spring Cleaning Challenge!
We began our March-April ‘Spring Cleaning for the Body & Mind’ session here at The Yoga Room this week. Our physical practice focused on purifying in the form of building up our immune systems to help cleanse our body of germs and toxins. We emphasized backbending postures that would open up our lungs and help …