Anxiety can potentially cause racing, uncontrollable thoughts as well as physical agitation. People who experience several types of anxiety may avoid yoga or meditation classes because their experience of anxiety feels magnified while they are in the company of people who are seemingly able to sit or lie still with their eyes closed and [...]
A large part of being a successful yoga professional is knowing how to cue in a way that clear, concise and meaningful. It was easier (although not simple) when people were in the room with us. Now that so many of our students may be on Zoom with their cameras off our job is [...]
Almost every student that comes to my class lately tells me how stressed out they are! Indeed many people are feeling more stress and less balance in body, mind and spirit than they were in 2019. They are putting a lot of faith in their yoga teachers to help them feel better. Student’s come [...]
By Manvi Singh, RYT-500 September 2016 Most of us have experienced a time when no one showed up for us. Whether it was a party that started at 7PM and by 8PM, still no one was there, a friend said, "I'll call you right back," and didn't call, or if no one comes to [...]
“I was being worked up for kidney transplant when the doctors told me that I needed new lungs because I wasn’t passing my pulmonary function tests. After a slight panic, I started pondering what to do to heal myself. One thing led to another and I found myself in a yoga class. The only [...]
There are some things that you just can’t put on hold because of back pain like the night of your daughter’s school play, a big presentation at work, the day of your son’s wedding, Thanksgiving dinner preparation, and so on. Even if you can’t get to your chiropractor, massage therapist, or acupuncturist in that moment [...]
Digestive imbalance is almost at epidemic levels these days. Constipation, IBS, acid reflux, GERD, etc. plague a whopping 70 million people every day. The omnipresence of processed food, GMO’s and increased use of medication is largely blamed for for the loss of our ability to properly digest our food. This is highly concerning because [...]
Yoga Therapy is a 4,000 year old complementary healing modality that uses gentle body movement, breathing techniques and progressive relaxation practices to bring all the body systems into a synchronistic bio-rhythm that has been proven to engender healing. Science has recently taken a good hard look at the healing properties of yoga in regard [...]
I am the Director of Advanced Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapy Training at Soul of Yoga. Over the years I have learned countless wonderful things from my students. These students are already yoga teachers and are enrolled in training in order to deepen their skill sets and/or become certified Yoga Therapists. Some have been [...]
The Yogic sages offer us many practices to support our journey towards Self-Realization. If you’re like me you found asana first and it changed your life. In fact that may be why you became a yoga teacher! Yogis suggest asana may be necessary to settle and balance the body in preparation for meditation. For [...]
