Why Texting Less is Essential to the Development and Respect of our Relationships!
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Filed Under: Blogs, VLogs Tagged With: breathing, calm nerves, calming breath, health, heating breath, inner strength, meditation, mindfulness, parasympathetic nervous system, stress reduction, wellness
Learn how to activate your breath which calms nerves, creates internal heat and focuses the mind. Click here to access my YouTube Video.
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Take a few minutes to move the mind inward to the body. Create a connection to the self, which helps to relax the mind and body. Click here to watch the Youtube! Video!
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Learn how to meditate using a Mala Bead Necklace, and enter a chance to win your very own Mala beads designed by Mala Collective! Malas are a great way to train and discipline the mind to a particular mantra, concept or phrase. It’s also a great way to inspire yourself to sit quietly and focus the ‘monkey-mind’. I’ve collaborated with Mala Collective and Vie NYC to demonstrate how to use Mala Beads to enhance or begin a meditation practice.
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My colleague and I were clear at the Headstand Workshop about preventing certain tendencies that we witness commonly in class, such as aligning the hips on top of the shoulders, no hopping or kicking up into headstand and keeping the knees close to the chest in ‘egg-shape’ before attempting to straighten the legs. Clear, yes, as in crystal.
Yet, after 90 minutes of discussing, warming-up, strengthening, aligning and demonstrating, we watched fear and conditioning take over our participants and ease them back into the same ole, same ole habits of trying to go upside down. My voice picked up a few octaves and roared out the basics (after all, we were in Headstand Basics) as if the boom of my voice in their ears would break all the years of fear and conditioning Then I paused as this thought went through my mind, ‘If you want to pay me money to go right back to your same habits, go right ahead.’ Then, I heard my colleague’s voice in my ear, ‘I swear I just told him to work on the ‘tipping point’ and look, he’s back to kicking up.’ I looked, and he was indeed kicking, and smiling because he could claim, as he said, that he got upside down.
It is then, that I had to remind myself that these determined souls are here to learn new habits, not necessarily to break them. I have no control over their habits, nor does my colleague, but damned sure we wished we had. This is where my yoga philosophy took over, teaching me the grueling lessons of compassion and patience. When I want to break down one of my habits, infinitely small (such as changing where I place my toothbrush), it takes me days if not months for just the small stuff! We tell our students not to have advanced minds, but we, the teachers must heed the warnings too, and find compassion even after the 8th time repeating the same cues. It’s not only our jobs, it’s our evolution.
Overall the workshop was a great success with lots of enthusiasm and many making conscious efforts to change habits while leaving the destination or goal at bay. The faces seemed determined when they filed out of the room after the workshop, determined to break some of the old habits and build to the new. If they can do it, so can I.
Thanks to all who attended and participated! See you again on the mat to turn your world upside down!
Filed Under: Meditations Tagged With: audio, beginner's, breath, daily, guided, health, lungs, meditation, mindful breathing, mindfulness, prana, pranayama, recovering attorney, spiritual
Three-Part Breathing helps to develop the lung capacity and restore the nervous system. This on-line audio is easy to follow and designed for beginners! Share with your friends, co-workers and family-those who need to take a breather in life!