Yoga and weight loss: the untold truth

Yoga and weight loss: the untold truth

Whether yoga can help with weight loss is an ubiquitous topic on social media and online articles, and it’s a question that every yoga teacher has been asked at least once by a prospective student with hope in their eyes, as they pictured the possibility that yoga might be, finally, the answer to their quest for the perfect body (in the eyes of certain beauty standards, that is).

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Mindfulness at your fingertips: 3 benefits of wearing a MeditationRing

Mindfulness at your fingertips: 3 benefits of wearing a MeditationRing

“Brew for 2 minutes”, reads the tag on my tea bag. Deep, calming breaths. How long is two minutes? About 20 deep breaths? One inhale… one exhale… two inhale… two exhale… immediately the thoughts start drifting, dispersing, scattering

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Stay Lit — enhance your yoga practice with this incense Meditation kit from Reverse Karma

Stay Lit — enhance your yoga practice with this incense Meditation kit from Reverse Karma

The sense of smell is strongly linked to memory and emotions. More so than any other sense. It strongly ties to our most primeval instincts, bringing them to the surface like foam rising above the waves. Ephemeral, short-lived, intangible, gone in the blink of an eye, and yet

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yoga accessories explained: props and beyond

Whether you’re a beginner practitioner or a long-time yogi, you may find it hard to keep up with the many and varied yoga accessories and props that continue to be released to the market on a regular basis. As I explained in the first part of this Yoga accessories EXPLAINED series, the growing popularity of yoga not

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yoga sequence to support your fast

While the body adjust to long periods of fasting, such as Ramadan, it is very common to experience a variety of symptoms that may include lethargy (from staying up during the night, or waking up in the early hours to fuel up on food and fluids before fasting again), stiff muscles and joints, cold limbs, and digestive ailments

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the practice of yoga while fasting

With Ramadan just around the corner, for many of us it’s that time of the year when we start to plan ahead in order to be able to keep up our physical yoga practice while fasting several hours a day. If you have fasted before, you have probably already experienced some of the overall health benefits that come with

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what is yoga?

Ironically enough, it’s never an easy task to answer the question “what is yoga?”. However, one thing that I can tell you is that it always rubs me the wrong way when I get questions along the lines of “do you practice other sports?” or “what's this exercise called?”. Because I don’t consider yoga a merely physical

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falling into the path of yoga

Most of us live our lives in a continuous free fall. Flapping our limbs around without control. Screaming as we precipitate into the abyss day, after day, after day... in a seemingly endless loop And then one day, we hit the ground. We make a soft landing. And, as if waking up from a nightmare, we gasp and sit up. Our breath short and shallow.

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