Today or this week, take time to observe the pause between your breaths, the pause between the inhale and the exhale, the exhale and the inhale. This pranayam practice is often called Kumbhaka. Retention after an inhale is antara and retention after an exhale is bahya. A teacher once told me that this natural unforced…
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Definition: The action of becoming larger or more extensive. Expansion isn’t solely how we feel in our physical body, but also our spiritual body. When I lie in a supported back bend I feel expansion in my pericardium, in my ribs, my lungs, my heart center. I feel a tightness breaking open when I am…
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It’s fall y’all. The season of pumpkin spice and everything nice. The changing of the seasons are a time for transition, transformation, and renewal. But lets be honest, the last 7 months our whole world has been in a huge transformation, whether we like it or not. We have been forced to reduce our community…
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What’s wrong with a little healthy competition and yoga? I would be certain that not a single one of us reading this has been to a yoga class where we haven’t felt our ego get a little competitive, am I right? A million times as a student, I sat on my mat and the thoughts…
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