Are You Engaging in Spiritual Bypassing or “Toxic Positive Thinking”? Positive Thinking sometimes gets a bad rap especially when things are not going well for you in life. In fact, some people have labeled too much emphasis on positive thinking as toxic...
What is a Mudra and Why You Should Care? Has your yoga teacher ever asked you to put your thumb tip against your index finger and rest that on the lap either facing up or down? He or she may have even told you that you were practicing Gyana or Chin Mudra, also known...
Peeling the Layers of an Onion! I started my healing journey thirty-plus years ago when I walked into Cynthia’s yoga class. I had been on medical leave from my teaching job diagnosed with gastroparesis, a very scary-sounding diagnosis – aka stomach paralysis. I was...
Lessons from Centenarians Teach Us How to Age More Gracefully! For years whenever someone complimented me, I would smile and redirect the conversation. I did not realize I was doing it. I had adopted this approach because I believed it was what I was supposed to do....
How much time each day do you need to manage your stress and feel your best? I used to think I needed to spend 30 minutes in the morning meditating, 1 hour or so doing exercise daily, and another 30 minutes at night back to meditating. However, after many years of...
Did you know that it is Random Acts of Kindness Week? Kindness is a way we can all get into a heart/brain coherent state more easily. HeartMath defines physiological coherence as a state when your cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and nervous systems within your...
2022 is just one month old and one intention has been realized! One month into 2022, how are your New Year’s Intentions or Resolutions going? I fulfilled one of mine already. I declared 2022 the year I was going to get to know my darling granddaughter Isabela, who...
My Yoga Does Not Look Like This! I remember when I was first trained as a yoga teacher in 2014 how surprised I was to learn that Yoga was originally developed for teenage boys training to be monks. Over time I really came to understand how important that fact is for...
Why is it so difficult to communicate kindly and clearly with your loved ones? Holidays are great right? Not always! Communication issues can be very draining during the Holidays. People are complicated and they draw different conclusions from the same event after...
What is Toning and How Can It Improve Your Health? Toning is nothing new. Many ancient healers understood that sound has healing properties. When retired corporate executive, then-68-year-old Eric Knouse discovered it, he was experimenting on himself using the...
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