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Guided Sleep Meditation: Slow Down the Mind by Tuning into the Body [Video]

Need help falling asleep? Try this guided sleep meditation that will help you slow down your mind and tune into your body.

Bring Self-Compassion into Mindfulness [Video]

Bring Self-Compassion into Mindfulness [Transcript] In this blog, I will be discussing how safety, connection, and self-compassion can deeply support mindfulness practices. Common challenges during mindfulness practices Practitioners of mindfulness often report wandering minds, feelings of anxiety, boredom, or fatigue. Minds often wander to the past, regrets, potential problems, or hopes and plans for the… Continue reading Bring Self-Compassion into Mindfulness [Video]

The Everyday Benefits of Mindfulness

Everyday Benefits of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a form of meditation, which has increased in popularity in the U.S. in recent decades. While it’s not a miracle cure, it’s a great tool for cultivating wellness, awareness, and acceptance in one’s own life. The basic lessons of mindfulness are the most powerful when applied to the frustrations and stressors of everyday… Continue reading The Everyday Benefits of Mindfulness

Be Your Own Best Friend: 3 Tips

When times are tough, it can be hard to treat ourselves with the generosity and kindness of a best friend. Instead, we can find ourselves flooded with negative thoughts and feelings that won’t go away. Similar to the idea of self-love, treating yourself as a friend is an active form of mental and emotional resistance… Continue reading Be Your Own Best Friend: 3 Tips

The Difference Between Mindfulness and Meditation [Video]

The difference between Mindfulness and Meditation can be confusing. Both practices focus on cultivating “presence” and on enhancing our attention and awareness, but there are some differences. The practice of meditation usually involves formalized techniques which focus on the person’s “felt sense” of what is going on in the body and mind. In meditation, we… Continue reading The Difference Between Mindfulness and Meditation [Video]

Five Building Blocks of Mind-Body Wellness [Video]

Five Building Blocks of Mind-Body Wellness [Transcript] Here are five building blocks of mind-body wellness: Exercise Exercise releases feel-good chemicals in our brains. It also boosts memory and overall brain function. People who lead an active lifestyle are even at lower risk of cognitive decline as they age. Your exercise goal is 30 minutes of… Continue reading Five Building Blocks of Mind-Body Wellness [Video]

How to Relieve Stress by Deep Breathing

One of these simplest ways to calm yourself down when you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or scared is to focus on your breathing. It sounds so simple, yet we tend to forget to do it in the heat of the moment. Can breathing actually affect our mood and make us feel calmer? When people are under… Continue reading How to Relieve Stress by Deep Breathing

Meditation: My Mind Won’t Stop!

In meditation classes, newer practitioners often ask the question, “How do I quiet my mind?” Following a practice, new students often comment, “My mind won’t stop!” Meditation is a practice of calming the body and mind using breath awareness. Meditation isn’t about stopping the mind, rather settling into the flow of what comes up. Meditation is… Continue reading Meditation: My Mind Won’t Stop!

5 Easeful Steps to Start Your Own Meditation Practice

As a yoga teacher, one of the most common questions I receive is how to start a meditation practice.  So many people have heard about the incredible benefits of meditation and the choice to meditate seems easy, but beginning a practice at home is daunting.  The process I recommend below is based on one of… Continue reading 5 Easeful Steps to Start Your Own Meditation Practice

How to Find Some Stillness in a Life of Constant Movement

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So we know that everything is movement, right? Everything.  Even what we perceive to be a solid object sitting in stillness is made-up of movement.  If we were to look under a microscope at anything, your hand, a table, the screen you’re reading this on, we’d see a buzz of activity – protons and electrons… Continue reading How to Find Some Stillness in a Life of Constant Movement

Hush the Rush in 1-2-3

How often do you catch yourself running like a crazy person? Desperately trying to finish whatever you’re doing so that you can quickly dash to the subway, race into the yoga studio, quickly change and barely make it into the classroom before the door closes…which then takes at least the first fifteen minutes of class… Continue reading Hush the Rush in 1-2-3