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…
On and Off the Mat: Yoga + Social Justice
When we start to approach the world through the lens of yoga, social justice and activism become a natural extension of our practice. There is great significance (and discipline) in maintaining your yoga practice in the midst of mayhem. While meditation, breathwork, and asanas (physical postures) can be used to relieve stress or for self-care,…
Love Your Brain: An Interview with Adi Amar
We snagged a moment with Adi Amar to peek into her recent affiliation with Love Your Brain. If you’re familiar with YogaToday, you recognize Adi Amar, one of the original yoga teachers who offers endless insight into the yoga practice, streamed online to you, anytime anywhere. LoveYourBrain‘s mission is essentially improving the quality of life…
Power Up Your Practice
Taking on a more rigorous power yoga practice can be both exciting and scary. One will begin to challenge both the mind and body in new ways. It is likely that one will feel this in their body mentally, emotionally and physically. There are many different ways to support a more rigorous yoga practice including…