Category: Exercise & Movement
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How Yoga Made Me Believe in Myself
I write a lot about yoga as a lifestyle…so much more than a series of physical postures, yoga, when practiced consistently, will open your mind up to a belief system that is not limited by social norms and thoughts of “not enough”. At the heart of the yogic paradigm is self-realization, a process that involves…
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Yoga Has Made it Mainstream…But, What Exactly is Yoga?
In my experience as a yoga practitioner, teacher and advocate, I have noticed that, like many things, yoga can be largely misunderstood. It is no doubt that yoga has hit the mainstream, pervading popular culture in practice, commercials, TV shows, movies and conversation. I am all for this—the more people that are exposed to yoga…
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Yoga as a Lifestyle
After spending only one month studying Yoga in India, the birthplace of this ancient tradition, I came to understand it very differently than my western conditioned mind originally had. I came to see yoga not as a practice, but as a lifestyle, and upon becoming re-immersed in western culture the pervasiveness of this divergence in…