Are you sowing various seeds to encompass your diverse interests and connections? Or are you opting for a "mono-crop," focusing solely on one narrow aspect of your life?
Building a new habit requires significant effort, but the challenge is not only achievable but sometimes it’s necessary. Initiating a new habit presents a dual challenge: not only are we integrating a fresh set of behaviours, but we are also detaching from previously ingrained patterns. Essentially, this process entails rewiring our brains!
My home practice started simply. I rolled out my yoga mat and explored some of the poses and ideas that I had learned in class. I explored sitting still in meditation and pranayama. It was challenging to stay committed, but it was essential to a nourishing practice.
Japanese “forest bathing” is the science of nature to heal yourself, wherever you are.
Science and research have finally proven something that mankind has known innately for centuries, that trees and nature have healing powers.
Do you consider yourself a creative being?
Or do you believe that you don't have a creative bone in your body?
Regardless of how you answer the questions above, every one of us requires creativity to exist in our daily lives.
A morning routine is a set of actions that you curate usually before starting your day's main activity. The actions can be anything from drinking a coffee, brushing your teeth, reading your emails, or sitting for morning meditation.
As we enter into the deep winter of 2021, health has been a topic of conversation that has dominated the newsreels and our daily conversations since March 2020.
At some point, we have all received the well-meaning advice to “stay positive”. To view the glass as “half full” sometimes can feel like wishful thinking or “Pollyannaish”. And it can be difficult to find the motivation to stay positive when life becomes challenging.
As we move into October and when we traditionally join together to celebrate Thanksgiving; I have been contemplating ways to shift my idea of practicing gratitude beyond this one tradition and expand my feelings of gratitude, especially during these challenging times.
How does your practice change when you are experiencing a difficult period in your life? Does your practice disappear or do you lean in and become more intentional with when and how you practice?
Fall is in the air and with the change of season, we have the opportunity to begin again, change what we want to change and take care of our needs in a new way. Here are a few self-care ideas to add to your month ahead.
Have you ever experienced a time in your life when things were just ok? You got through your days with relative normalcy. You had times of stress, pain, fatigue, and feelings of being “down”. But yet, things were not so bad that you were restricted from doing the things you wanted to do; or worse, you needed help. Maybe this way of being was “normal” for you.
This is the time of year when we hear the endless list of resolutions or intentions that many of us choose to set as we turn the calendar page into the new year.
Many people think that meditation is difficult. They can’t even fathom sitting still for a few minutes let alone 45 minutes. Who has time for that???
This is how I see it ... 1. we only have the moment and 2. our lives are a series of moments linked together.
While working with yoga educator/author Leslie Kaminoff many things rang true, but none so much as the above quote that he picked up from his teacher T.K.V. Desikachar. This has transformed my yoga practice.
Just the idea of a road trip often stirs up feelings of nostalgia, frustration, dread, excitement, humour and adventure. The descriptions of your memories seem to change to match the era in which you grew up.
Today was grey. It was cool but humid.
The kind of day where you decide not to bring an umbrella and it decides to pour on you, or you bring your umbrella and the rain never seems to arrive.