Author: atleeyogacenter
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Accessible Yoga
I hear the phrase accessible yoga a lot lately. Basically I think they mean yoga that anyone can do rather than the pretzel stuff only the flexible and strong can do. I worked in a studio once and the owner gave me this advice regarding my budding yoga career, don’t let them put you in…
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Sound Healing
Sound healing is meditation to a soundscape. For me it can be transformative. Something about sound healing shifts my mental state so that I can get enough distance between myself and my problems to see them from outside my mind. Usually that is when solutions present themselves, even if the solution is simply me thinking,…
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Unexpected
My very first yoga class as a student was at a YMCA. That class was on New Year’s Day, not because I had made any kind of resolution, but because I had the day off from work. Looking back I think the teacher wanted to make it clear that yoga is not for the faint…
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Meditation skills
Meditation. Difficult. I’d rather spend an hour practicing yoga as most people know it in the West, a series of poses followed by a very short rest. I had a teacher say once that meditation is like going to the gym for your brain. The only time it isn’t a “workout” for me is in…
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