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 vegan meals my husband and I have been cooking over the past few weeks. While I’m a big fan of eating …
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 neck, shoulders, or back killing you? Are you feeling and seeing the effects of aging in your body, ie. hunched shoulders or osteoporosis? Our posture affects everything: our …
7 Reasons Why Balance Becomes More Difficult As We Age
Updated April 2024 If you’re over 40, you’ve probably observed that your balance just isn’t what it used to be. For me, it started with noticing how much more unsteady I felt in my Warrior 3 poses. I know some of you can relate! So why does balance become more difficult as we age? Here …
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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 March 2022 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 …
Lake Meditation
Imagine the clear smooth surface of a lake. When you look into its surface, all is reflected just as it is. The water reflects only what is there, not adding anything, not subtracting anything. Once the image is gone, there are no traces left. Then imagine your mind as clear and reflective as the water. …
Mountain Meditation
I’ve been asked to post the meditations that we’re doing at the end of class each week on my blog. Here is the Mountain Meditation from last week, which is good for anxiety and stress in particular: Visualize a mountain, how solid and stable it is, in the face of the ever-changing weather and environment. …