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Neuroplasticity: How to Rewire Your Resilience Our brains have the capacity to grow along with us. Here’s how to utilize neuroplasticity to change and learn new habits.

Remember to have your own back!

Glute Amnesia: Yoga for Your Forgotten Rear Forgetting how to use the biggest muscles in your body can lead to all kinds of problems. Here are my top 5 yoga poses to jog your glutes.

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The Story of Selfless Service: Telling Tales from Indian Myth by Dr. Raj Balkaran - Give Back Yoga Foundation The Story of Selfless Service: Telling Tales from Indian Myth by Dr. Raj BalkaranAbout Dr. Raj BalkaranDr. Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts and the author of The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth (Routledge 2018), The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth (Routledge 2020), and se...

Plantar fasciitis? Try this short practice after massaging your calves first…

Yoga for Plantar Fasciitis: Turn Ow to Aaaah - YogaUOnline In this article, yoga teacher Kathryn Boland shares several yoga for plantar fasciitis practices to help soothe your achy feet.

Lower back pain? You will want to read this…

Are Women More Vulnerable to SI Joint Pain? How Yoga Can Help - YogaUOnline Lower back pain is a common reason people start a yoga practice. The problem may not be entirely in the low back. Here’s why.

Happy Lunar New Year!

You Probably Need Rest, But What Kind? | YogaUOnline “What kind of tired are you?” asks Saundra Dalton-Smith in her book Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity (1). This seems like a confusing question; how many ways are there to be tired? It turns out there are several, seven to be exact. Since we are multidimensio...

Happy holidays everyone! Remember to take care of yourself 💖

The Practice of Giving: Mindful Holiday Self-Care Tips The holidays are a time for practicing giving—giving gifts, and giving our time and energy to plan and attend festive events. But sometimes, amongst all the giving, there’s a pressure to show our best merry smile and exude that holiday cheer—even if we’d rather just stay home and say, “Bah...

This describes a great short practice you can use on its own or before your asana practice!

Yoga for Myofascial Release: How to Find Calm and Refine Your Body Awareness | YogaUOnline Struggle to get to your yoga mat sometimes? Try this yummy yoga practice for myofascial release designed by yoga teacher and author Ellen Saltonstall using her Bodymind Ballwork approach. You will find this practice helpful to induce greater calm and relaxation. And as a side benefit, use the practi...

Wishing you a happy Sunday and healthy knees 🙂

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Yoga Anatomy: How Strong Thighs Can Help Knee Osteoarthritis | YogaUOnline A series of articles from opinion leaders in the academic medical community have demonstrated the benefits of quadriceps strength for persons with arthritis of the knee joint. One of these studies, which used MRI to assess knee cartilage directly, is particularly important because it sheds new light...

Have neck pain? Try yoga to increase mobility and reduce pain

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Yoga Offers More Effective Neck Pain Relief than Exercise Research Finds | YogaUOnline Chronic neck pain and neck pain-related disability are a major public health problem. Particularly for people spending long hours working at their desk, neck pain can be a nagging, lingering issue. Can yoga help? Indeed, several research reviews show that yoga can offer effective relief for neck pai...

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!

Try this 30-second move for a tight neck and shoulders!

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Release Neck & Shoulder Tension in 30 seconds: NO STRETCHING| Feldenkrais Style In this short video, I will show you a super simple exercise to release your neck and shoulder tension in just 30 seconds. And this does not involve stretch...

How to live to 120!?!

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Healthy Aging: Why Not Plan to Live to 120? | YogaUOnline We have the power to age well. It just takes a little insight, effort, and of course, the right mindset. So the first step is identifying where we want to be at “X” age. Since I plan to live to be 120, and I plan to do it well, I have a routine in place to help me maintain my strength and mobili...

Curious about trying yoga but don’t know where to start? Try these basic poses…

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7 Yoga Poses for Beginners | YogaUOnline Many people would like to start yoga but they have no idea where to start. Yoga can feel like an intimidating field to navigate when you’re first starting out. It’s vast and overwhelming and there are so many different styles and types to try. But luckily, there is yoga for beginners that is str...

Happy Sunday ☀️

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3 Yoga Practices to Support Pelvic Floor Health | YogaUOnline The pelvic floor muscles support the bladder and bowels. In females, they also support the uterus, and in males, they also support the prostate. They’re a collective group of muscles that create a sling of structure and scaffolding at the base of the pelvis. For many, the pelvic floor muscles are ...

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Thich Nhat Hanh | Plum Village I am a continuation, like the rain is a continuation of the cloud. Thich Nhat Hanh We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing…

Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.

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How Healthy Breathing Patterns Enhance Vagus Nerve Functioning | YogaUOnline Breathing seems simple—you breathe in and you breathe out. But there are patterns to our breathing that are of our own creation. These patterns are often artificial strategies for dealing with events in our lives. Unfortunately, unhealthy breathing patterns affect us adversely in numerous ways. In...

When it doesn’t work to just breathe…

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When It Doesn’t Work to Just Breathe | YogaUOnline It’s a simple mantra: Just breathe. And it can help get you through plenty of stressful situations by calming you down. But it’s not always the best advice. Don’t get us wrong, we are all about using breath as medicine. Sometimes, though, it’s not the right medicine at that time. It all depe...

Should we be interested in hip protection instead of hip opening?

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“Hip Openers” in Yoga? Please, Let's Stop The Madness | YogaUOnline Our knowledge of how to address, preserve, and otherwise attend to the hip joint has exploded during the past decade. Prior to this new age of research, the hip was relegated to a joint worthy of no more than a tendonitis, bursitis, or osteoarthritis diagnosis. A person was simply a hip replacement....

Congratulations Amy!! Your new studio looks absolutely amazing 🤩

What is advanced yoga?

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Yoga Props and "Advanced Yoga" | YogaUOnline Most of my students have been attending my classes for many years—some for decades. When a new student joins a class, they often remark that their fellow students, the long-timers, are so mellow and uncompetitive. Everyone’s just doing her own practice at her own pace and using lots of yoga prop...

Enjoy these breathing exercises to strengthen your lungs. Happy Thursday!

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Yogic Breathing for Better Lung Capacity | YogaUOnline Breathing exercises are a very effective way to keep the lungs healthy and improve our breathing capacity. While regularly practicing deep breathing is great for our overall physical and mental health, it has become especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus primarily a...

Lower back pain? Try this simple technique...

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Ease Low Back Pain: A Simple Traction Technique with a Yoga Strap | YogaUOnline Over my 30 years of teaching yoga to all kinds of people with lower back pain, I’ve become familiar with how someone’s discomfort can run the gamut from a backache at the end of the day, or muscle spasms from poor body mechanics to a bulging disc or joint misalignment that consistently presses o...