Supporting Heart Health Through Gentle, Therapeutic Practice I’ve watched students come to yoga after heart attacks, bypass surgeries, and life-altering diagnoses. What surprises most of them? How much better they begin to feel after just a few weeks of gentle, intentional movement and breath. Heart disease affects millions worldwide, often shifting the rhythm of [...]
For many people in the yoga community, the medical system can feel both necessary and incomplete. It can be lifesaving in crisis, brilliant at diagnostics, and essential for certain conditions—yet it often isn’t built to address the lived experience of stress, meaning, embodiment, and spiritual resilience. Integrative healing begins when we stop treating these [...]
There is a kind of yoga that does not ask you to be flexible, strong, or experienced. It simply asks you to show up and breathe. Gentle Hatha Yoga is for everyone and every body. It is especially for people who think, “Yoga is not for me,” or “I can’t do that.” In this [...]
The famed and realized teacher who guides others toward liberation, named Sadhguru, calls it “the most dangerous form of yoga.” Others swear it transformed their entire lives. You have heard both sides, and now there is a tension inside you because you don’t know who to believe. Here is what twenty years of teaching [...]
Here you are, thinking about a yoga teacher training. You might feel called to teach or you might simply want a deeper practice, people feel called to do trainings for a variety of reasons. You have probably looked up the costs and found everything from $99 all the way to $11,000. The cost part [...]
Mastery of any teaching requires a level of expertise that can only be forged in steady dedication, practice, and time. Becoming a Reiki Master is no different. The system of Reiki is taught in three levels. Each level builds upon itself in order to support proper integration of the techniques. Upon completion of the [...]
There comes a moment when the surface is not enough. You want a deeper bond with your breath, mind and body. You may feel called to share yoga. Is yoga teacher training worth it? Training is not poses and a badge it is a season of lineage and philosophy, practice with feedback, anatomy for [...]
By Alexandra D. Crosswell, PhD Every student of yoga has felt it: you walk into a class where the energy feels calm and grounded, and your own body softens before you even roll out your mat. On the other hand, imagine if you were to step into a room where the teacher was running [...]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time that reminds us to take our health seriously and prioritize regular screenings, whether that means a mammogram or other early detection tests. As the granddaughter of a breast cancer survivor, I can still see the image of my grandmother riding away in the car, my mother [...]
(And should I practice Yin Yoga?) What Yin Yoga Actually Is Yin looks simple. You take mostly floor-based shapes, stay for time, and shift attention from movement to sensation. The practice invites a moderate, sustainable stress in deeper connective tissues such as fascia, ligaments, and joint capsules while the mind practices receptivity. This is [...]
