by Andrea Trank | Nov 27, 2022
To Heal Anxiety, Stop Thinking of it as a Disease! “It’s a simple fact: Nobody likes to feel anxious. Anxiety is among the most pervasive and reviled of human emotions. And since it’s unhealthy, we all agree, we should prevent and eradicate it like any other illness....
by Andrea Trank | May 29, 2022
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times in Balancing the Throat Chakra Ancient yogis believed the Throat Chakra to be so important that it had the most Lotus petals in the representation of it than any other lower Chakras (the Crown Chakra is represented with 1000 petals of...
by Andrea Trank | May 15, 2022
Did you know that May has been Mental Health Awareness Month since the late 1940s? This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Month is #ToolstoThrive. When I was originally diagnosed with anxiety 30 plus years ago, I was not thinking about thriving, I was thinking...
by Andrea Trank | Mar 20, 2022
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...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 9, 2022
My Yoga Does Not Look Like This! I remember when I was first trained as a yoga teacher 7 years ago being surprised by the fact that Yoga was originally developed for teenage boys training to be monks. Over time I really came to understand how important that fact is...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 7, 2021
What’s the Difference and Why it Matters! Thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes– I think we all confuse these terms a bit. Having studied and practiced yoga for many years, and learned about HeartMath tools and the Polyvagal theory most recently, I...
