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Yoga is as Simple as Taking A Seat: Chair Pose

Overcoming Discomfort: Why Fear of Discomfort Might Be Ruining Your Life

If You Read One Article About The Science of Gratitude Read this One

It did what? Proof Positive Studies on the Science of Gratitude

Saying ‘Thank You’ Makes a Difference

Indoor Air Quality, Here’s how to Improve it!

Change your mind, change your life! The benefits of learning another language

Recharging Your Mind, Body, and Soul

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Thanksgiving: Remembering History, a Ritual and a Blessing

In North America, Thanksgiving is celebrated in both Canada (the second Monday of each October) and the United States of America (the fourth Thursday each November). For some it is a day to remember to be grateful, to slow down and spend time with family. For others, it is an empty holiday where overindulgence and gluttony remain the order of the day. For others still, it may be a hurtful… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/rituals-thinking-about-thanksgiving/">Read More »</a>

Here’s Why Self-care is Essential!

Take Care of Your Mind and Body with Self-care It’s unfortunate that the word “self-care” sounds so much like selfishness since the intent is exactly the opposite. Self-care is a chance to spend some time focusing on your own needs so that you can then be recharged and reinvigorated physically and mentally to help others both at home and at work. Here are a few tips on how to help… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/heres-why-self-care-is-essential/">Read More »</a>

Don’t worry about feeling sad

It's startling that Broder's unabashed expression of sadness – and all the shitty emotions – has struck such a nerve in a world where people's social media profiles are immaculately curated to show their happiest selves. But clearly the growing rates of depression worldwide mean that we are struggling to be happy. Are we doing something wrong? Broder's popularity should compel us to cast a new look at sadness and its cousins. Perhaps we should consider realigning ourselves with the Romantics, who as a group found solace in freely expressing emotions in poetry.

Vast Open Sky, a Meditation Practice

The Practice of Vast Open Sky Vast open sky is a meditation practice, keep reading to learn how to practice it. Body like a mountain Breath like the wind Mind like the sky ~Tibetan Meditation Instruction A number of meditation traditions have practices that are a dropping of the ego into wide-open awareness. I’d like to share this kind of practice with you because it is one of the most… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/vast-open-sky-meditation-practice/">Read More »</a>

Middle Aged White Women, a poem written & performed by Robin Reynolds

This week I had the opportunity to interview Robin Reynolds on the Conversations Podcast. Robin is a Manager and Engineer who is a scientist by day and an artist and poet by night. She performed her spoken word poem Middle-Aged White Women. The message is multi-faceted, yet, at the core, we learn that ‘What you see is not what you get.’ You can listen to the poem here. Scroll down… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/middle-aged-white-women-a-poem-written-performed-by-robin-reynolds/">Read More »</a>

Hugging Bubbles and Floating with Clouds

My favorite art exhibit absolutely ever is Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds housed at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. To experience Silver Clouds is to become a child again lying in the backyard lost in a summer sky, your imagination bobbing about gently in big puffy clouds. You frolic with dogs and kite-wielding dragons or pilot a cirrocumulus pirate ship through the great sky sea. Silver Clouds doesn’t hang… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/hugging-bubbles-floating-with-clouds-moments-of-mindfulness/">Read More »</a>

Stories & Poems

Middle Aged White Women, a poem written & performed by Robin Reynolds

Hugging Bubbles and Floating with Clouds

My Beautiful Ugly Foot

A few years ago, a sloppy surgeon butchered my right foot. I went to Dr. Garrett for routine bunion surgery and left his office traumatized. He lopped off a full third of my second toe and made bending my big toe ever again impossible. I used to be a distance runner and suffered significant foot pain from my bunions whenever I ran more than ten or twelve miles, which I… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/my-beautiful-ugly-foot/">Read More »</a>

Conversations a new podcast

Conscious Life Conversations This month a new podcast, Conversations was introduced here on Conscious Life Space. Conversations connects with people, experts in various areas of life in order to share what they’ve learned with others so we can hear stories and learn together. The first episode was broadcast on the 15th of June and we’ll be publishing new episodes every other Thursday until the end of October. Season One Each… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/conversations-a-new-podcast/">Read More »</a>

Life on earth sometimes includes horror, wounds & suffering

A lot of people will tell us that the world operates under a set of universal laws and we create our own reality. Even if it were true and there is strong evidence towards this idea, I’m not arguing for or against it. I’m simply wanting to discuss the fact that there is a lot of horror in this world and with all this horror there are a lot of… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/life-on-earth-wounds-suffering/">Read More »</a>

Join me in sorting out the details to learn more about yoga!

Yoga is as Simple as Taking A Seat: Chair Pose

Utkatasana or Chair Pose There are a variety of yoga poses that you can practice that stimulate and benefit many parts of the body all at once. One of those poses is Chair Pose. In Sanskrit, the language of yoga, the pose is called Utkatasana (OOT-kah-TAH-sah-nah), but it does not translate to mean “chair pose.” It actually means “fierce pose.” Utkata means intense or powerful. We combine utkata + asana… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/yoga-is-as-simple-as-taking-a-seat-chair-pose/">Read More »</a>

Five Habits to Cultivate your Yoga Practice

We know how important it is to have a regular yoga practice. Study after study demonstrates that yoga heals. A regular practice can provide a myriad of benefits including: strengthing our immune system provides stress relief aids in weight loss regulating and lowering blood pressure counteract depression and more. Even so, it can be a challenge to stick with yoga when life has a hundred other demands clamoring to be… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/five-habits-to-cultivate-your-yoga-practice/">Read More »</a>

What to expect when you sign-up for yoga teacher training!

Yoga is a practice that I found in college and it helped me get through school and receive my diploma by being a healthy outlet for me to work out the stressors of being a student and young adult trying to figure life out. After I finished my studies at the University of Hawai’i, I wanted to see the world and dive even deeper into my yoga practice. What better… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/what-to-expect-at-yoga-teacher-training/">Read More »</a>

An insider’s guide to your first yoga class!

What to Expect from your First Yoga Class You’re taking the plunge. Maybe you were talked into it by a friend, or maybe all the research on the benefits of yoga have gotten you interested. You’re preparing to attend your first yoga class. How should you prepare and what should you expect? Getting Ready for the Class It’s always a good idea to talk with the instructor about the class.… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/an-insiders-guide-to-your-first-yoga-class/">Read More »</a>

Yoga Speak, Coming to Terms with the Language of Yoga

When watching yoga videos on line or taking a live class some instructors might use only the English language or maybe they use some Sanskrit terms or a combination of both. I made an infographic with some terms to help us have a beter understanding of some of the terms. Here is Yoga Speak One on the language of yoga. Learn with me and feel free to share your experiences… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/yoga-terms-language/">Read More »</a>

Tree Pose, Mythology and an Infographic

Tree pose aka Vriksasana or Vrksasana, it is one of the poses where I can morph into the pose’s name. it is also a pose that can test you and ground you. Tree pose as the barometer or thermometer for grounding Grounding is something that I used to have difficulty with when going through bigger life changes. Those are the times that I wanted to be detached from the earth.… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/tree-pose-mythology-infographic/">Read More »</a>

Yoga with Adriene

I’ve been meaning to write about Yoga with Adriene. Her motto is ‘find what feels good.’ She is one of my favourite yoga instructors on YouTube and is also probably the most well-known yoga instructor on YouTube with close to 3 million subscribers. She has a channel with hundreds of videos. She mentions in at least one of her videos that she had an injury in the past. I can’t… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/yoga-with-adriene/">Read More »</a>

Self-Improvement

If You Read One Article About The Science of Gratitude Read this One

Since the turn of the century, the science of gratitude has become a topic of interest amongst neuroscientists, psychologists, and social scientists. Neuroscientists have been studying how it rewires our brains, and psychologists and social scientists have been studying gratitude trying to understand its impact on our well-being. They’re putting all the data together proving that it improves well-being by reducing anxiety and stress, as well as, increases empathy, inspires… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/if-you-read-one-article-about-the-science-of-gratitude-read-this-one/">Read More »</a>

It did what? Proof Positive Studies on the Science of Gratitude

It’s all in the science, gratitude – it’s good for you. It makes your life better. Here are a few tidbits or studies on the science of gratitude, the actual benefits of practicing gratitude and why it works to enhance our lives. Tidbit One: Gratitude Increases Well-being The science says that gratitude is uniquely fundamental to our psychological well-being. It’s scientifically documented in this study this published study done in… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/studies-on-the-science-of-gratitude/">Read More »</a>

Change your mind, change your life! The benefits of learning another language

In the 1960s, in our public schools in California along the border with Mexico, Spanish language-learning was a requirement, beginning in sixth grade. I couldn’t wait to get to sixth grade to start learning Spanish. Our school was more than 50 percent Mexican-Americans, and I was keen to understand them as they switched back and forth from fluent English to fluent Spanish (or, as they called it, ‘Mexican’). As I… <a href="https://consciouslife.guru/the-benefits-of-learning-another-language/">Read More »</a>

Don’t worry about feeling sad

Vast Open Sky, a Meditation Practice

Hugging Bubbles and Floating with Clouds

My Beautiful Ugly Foot