The Therapeutic Power of Movement: Hiking and Yoga for Holistic Health
This blog explores the therapeutic benefits of movement, focusing on hiking and yoga to enhance holistic health. It highlights how these activities improve physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self." -- The Bhagavad Gita
Yoga and Menstruation
Is it safe to practice yoga on your period? To answer this question we have to begin looking at the philosophy of yoga: The same Vedic texts that the modern practice of Hatha yoga (yoga of postures and breathing techniques) are derived from are quite clear in their advocacy that a woman's cycle is both powerful and fragile. This is a time when you are 'full mooning'.
Yoga Mudras - An Overview
Aspects of yoga practice are concerned with the relational patterns between different areas on the hand and fingers and parts of the brain. Like the study of reflexology on the feet, the hands have been found to be highly sensitive, potent areas of neural and energy pathways and meridians. Drawing on this wisdom, it has become custom in some yoga practices to focus ...