Setting a morning routine– especially one that includes yoga, breathing, or mindfulness– can help stimulate your digestion, energize you for the day ahead, clear the body of toxins, and decrease overall daily stress. As you lay in bed, entranced from a fanciful dream, a loud alarm is yelling at you from across the room. You…
Author: Michelle DeLong
Yoga at Home: Reach Beyond the Physical Practice
Doing yoga at home provides many physical benefits. But when it becomes a lifestyle, your yoga practice becomes so much more. Take the time to go deeper into your practice, and yoga will provide community, alleviate stress, provide healing, and even take you to new places. When your yoga at home routine moves beyond a…
5 Yoga Poses to Heal Your Lower Back Pain
If you have occasional or chronic pain in your lower back, you’re not alone. Back pain is a prevalent complaint, especially in people who lead less active lifestyles. Having a job where you sit most of the day exacerbates the problem. Taking the time to establish a regular yoga practice can help calm the mind…
7 Ways to Incorporate Yoga Blocks Into Your Practice
Yoga blocks are useful for both beginners and people who are advanced in their yoga practice. They help beginners maintain stability and overcome the limits of their inflexibility. And for advanced users, yoga blocks act as a support to assist with deeper stretches. What are yoga blocks? The yoga block is a prop you can…
How Does Your Body Respond to Stress?
The feeling of stress is one of the most universal feelings around. From continent to continent, individuals feel and react to stress daily in their workplaces, in their home environments and-most recently-in the wake of an unknown enemy that takes shape as a virus. When does this stress become anxiety? What are the physical signs…
3 Mindful Breathing Exercises to Do Anytime, Anywhere
Learn breathing exercises that will help you combat everyday stress, fatigue, and lack of focus. Best of all, these breathing exercises can be practiced wherever you are! Many of us have experienced feelings of being overwhelmed by our thoughts, emotions, and the uncertainty around us, searching for useful ways to keep us calm and grounded….
How To Use Essential Oils in Your Yoga Practice
Learn from the aromatherapy gurus at doTERRA how using essential oils in your yoga routine can help connect you to the blissful, relaxing benefits of the practice! Aromatherapy and yoga benefit the body, mind, and spirit in countless ways. While some prefer applying essential oils to their body at the beginning of their practice to…
Building Habits: Create the Life You Want!
Explore how building habits can support your personal wellness goals and yoga practice. Your life is the becoming of your habits. Our habits find pockets of space in our daily routines and those same routines we sink into, become our lives. Habits will look different for everyone and can be something picked up from within…
6 Yoga Poses for Summer Athletes
Though yoga is a practice associated with peace, calm, and pretzel-like poses, these yoga poses for summer athletes can also be used as a tool to bolster specialized strength and flexibility needs, and for injury prevention. Simply put, summer sports like hiking, cycling and trail running can be hard on your body. Period. Many outdoor…
The Surprising Benefits of Head Stand and Shoulder Stand
Inversions like head stand and shoulder stand can appear intimidating. Humans are much more used to standing firmly on their two feet, as opposed to balancing on their heads and shoulders. The word “inversion,” which refers to anytime the head is below the heart, provokes emotions that range from fear to excitement to doubt. New…