Have you ever said "I just seem to have an addictive personality"? Many of us have although that does not lead us to search out the nearest rehab - indeed most of us notice our addictive cycles around many things other than, or along with drugs and alcohol. If you can’t stop checking your phone, [...]
Contraction vs Expansion Contraction is a state of resistance, tension, a need to control or protect. Expansion is a belief or faith that regardless the circumstance, all is well, and it is safe to be open. Contraction is rigid and impermeable. Expansion is soft and fluid. Contraction feels like the weight of a bull [...]
“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’s a part of every living thing that wants to become itself; the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality ~ Ellen Bass Do you feel it? Are you noticing life situations arise NOT allowing you to stay in your comfort zone? [...]
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 [...]
Reiki is a healing modality that was developed in 1922 by the Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. Translating Japanese into English is more of an art than exact science. The Japanese language has many layers of meaning. Context is very important. As an example, “Rei” is commonly translated as “ghost” and “Ki” as vapor. This [...]
Cat/Cow These two postures help to keep the spine, and shoulders, mobile and strong. Start on your hands and knees, in a neutral table top position. Hands are shoulder-distance apart and knees are hip-distance apart. Shoulder heads are over wrists and hips are over knees. Slowly inhale, settle your belly toward the ground as [...]
The first limb, or the yamas, consists of five characteristics observed and codified by wise people since the beginning of time as being central to any life lived in freedom. They are mostly concerned with how you use your energy in relationship to others and in a subtler sense, your relationship with yourself. The sages recognized that [...]
While there are many branches to the tree of yoga, Patanjali’s Sutras, clearly defines an eight-limbed path that forms the structural framework for yoga study and practice. The Yoga Sutras consist of four books produced sometime in the third century before Christ. Patanjali’s Sutras consolidate the entirety of yoga philosophy into a series of [...]
