How to Listen to Your Body
Fitness instructors often say, “Listen to your body,” but what does that actually mean? How can you listen to your body as you’re recovering from an injury? What signs are most important if you’re [...]
The Benefits of Moving Your Body in All Planes of Motion
We live in a flexion dominant state – think sitting, standing, walking, hunching over our laptops, texting and looking down at our phones (with our shoulders scrunched up to our ears!) There are three [...]
The Benefits of a Chair Yoga Practice
While getting all the traditional benefits that yoga can offer for mindfulness, stress relief, and mental clarity, chair yoga offers additional benefits! Benefits These benefits include (but are not limited to!): 1. Accessibility – [...]
Benefits of a 20-minute Yoga Session
When a stressor is introduced in the body, the mind sends out a signal that there is danger. The adrenal glands, which are located right above the kidneys, start to secrete catecholamine hormones, high [...]
How Do You Want to Feel in 2023?
More conversations in 2023 about New Year’s resolutions encourage people to focus not just on the goal itself, but the feeling around the goal as well. We often make resolutions that are specific for [...]
Chair Yoga Myths
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “Isn’t that for old people?!” when I told them about chair yoga. I talk about chair yoga with so much enthusiasm that I [...]
Tips for Hosting a Virtual Yoga Session
Virtual corporate yoga and wellness sessions can be a great way to bring your team together and offer a mindful break during meetings. Onboarding training, all-hands meetings, annual leadership conferences, and employee retreats are all [...]
Raise Your Consciousness
Take a deep breath. In through your nose and hug your shoulders up to your ears as you exhale, then relax them back down. Unclench your jaw by separating your teeth. Unstick your tongue [...]
Morning Mindfulness
How many articles have you read about how the most successful people have an established morning mindfulness routine that includes: Running 5 miles Drinking a green smoothie 30 minutes of meditation Writing in their [...]