♠ Strengthen, support, and stretch out your hips. ⇓ Every time I ask for requests in my yoga classes, someone mentions hip openers. Lots of people go to yoga simply because their hips brought them there! Our hips are designed to move in a lot of different directions,...
Read More♠ Utilize one (or all!) of these tips to become healthier day by day. It's no secret that leading a healthy lifestyle is important. Eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep are all essential components of a healthy life. However, you can do many small things that...
Read More♠ A healing crisis is any event in which you feel worse on your way to feeling better. Seeing your healing crisis as a nonlinear journey will help you arrive at the destination of improved health. Your body knows how to heal itself, but healing is not a linear process....
Read More♠ Ever feel overheated, despite cool weather? Your Pitta dosha may have been aggravated. Have you ever felt heat in your body despite cold weather outside? Have you felt annoyed and agitated for seemingly no reason? Has your skin’s texture or quality changed after eating certain kinds...
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the best way to improve your running is to run more. The rule of training specificity still applies—you practice what you’re looking to improve. There’s no way around that. But that doesn’t mean other workout plans don’t have a place in your training program....
Read MoreNutrition may slow Alzheimer’s and has a role in preventing it. Discover practical advice for maximizing your brain health now. Nutrition changed my life. Food influenced my fertility, my acne breakouts, my focus, and my energy levels, all for the better. These shifts were so powerful...
Read More♠ The sacrum is all about balance and symmetry. Protect your sacrum with practical advice. The sacrum is a large, triangular-shaped bone at the bottom of the spine that connects the spine to the pelvis. The sacrum houses the sacral plexus, a major cluster of nerves that...
Read MoreWith their abundant nutritional and medicinal properties, mushrooms are now considered a superfood—and there’s no reason you shouldn’t add a variety of these nutritional superheroes to your plate. In the scientific world, fungi have their own kingdom. Welcome to it. Mushrooms are not a plant, and not...
Read MoreEvery choice we make, everything we do, is either inflammatory or anti-inflammatory. Try Ayurveda for inflammation. ◊ Inflammation is the word on everyone’s wellness radar. It’s the mystery symptom associated with a host of health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, asthma, dermatitis, and arthritis. Multiple studies have...
Read MoreA more intense yoga practice can give you a little more sweat, more strengthening, and a sense of empowerment. ◊ One of the pieces of feedback I often hear from my yoga students is that the class was “exactly what they needed.” I am reasonably sure that’s...
Read MoreAging and chronic inflammation turn out to be so interconnected, the research world has a new term: “inflammaging.” It doesn’t feel fair, does it? Just as we’re getting wise to the world, the world is taking its toll on our bodies. Wouldn’t it be great if...
Read MoreUjjayi Pranayam means Breath of the Warrior. When we do this breath, it can make us feel like that—calm, focused, fierce warriors on our mats. It’s often taught as a whispering sound at the back of the throat, so it can also sound like Darth...
Read MoreBreast cancer is a merciless disease that knows no bounds. It afflicts mothers, daughters, sisters, and best friends. In fact, breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among women worldwide. In the U.S. alone, it’s estimated that 1 in every 8...
Read MoreIn addition to diet and medicine, yoga can help treat the overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is when good bacteria, which is supposed to be in one part of the intestines, migrates up to the wrong place (the small...
Read MoreIf you’re stressed out, and feel like you’re in a pickle, well… good. Because consuming fermented foods like pickles, yogurt, and kombucha may make you feel less anxious. A new study at William and Mary found that people who ate more fermented foods had fewer symptoms of social...
Read More↓ A workout can change the brain for up to 48 hours. On those super busy days, when a workout just isn’t happening, we might feel a bit guilty. And then those busy days can stretch into weeks or months…. On those rare moment when there is...
Read MoreCheck out this simple, restorative yoga practice you can do under the covers with two or three pillows when sweet unconsciousness eludes you. It’s 3 a.m. You look at your blinking clock and think, “I have to get up in four hours. I need to get...
Read MoreHave a holiday hangover? Try these yoga poses to help detox and rebalance your body. The New Year is a popular time to think about detox—to cleanse all that holiday indulgence and start the new calendar year out fresh. The big secret about detoxification, though, is...
Read MoreChildbirth necessitates changes to your body, as does caring for your baby after. Whether you had a vaginal delivery or a c-section, giving birth is no joke. Some people seem to snap right back into shape, but for most of us, having a baby is an experience that...
Read MoreTo understand the spiritual meaning of lower back pain, head to the source: the sacrum, or “sacred bone.” Lower back pain might be the most common of the daily aches and pains suffered by your average industrialized person—up to 70 percent of us experience it from...
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When there is pain in the neck or restriction in the throat chakra, it’s worth asking: What emotions are caught in our throat, unable to be spoken? Neck and shoulder pain are very common, partly because they can come up when we are sitting in front...
Read MorePucker up, because it turns out this simple beverage packs a health punch. Health-conscious celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow and Gisele Bündchen are always going on and on about they drink lemon water every day, first thing in the morning. Why all the fuss over lemons? Is...
Read MoreGetty/Boyloso From improved sleep and circulation to reduced anxiety and more, regular exercise boosts immunity and strengthens the body’s defense against illness. How Exercise Strengthens the Immune System As we confront the difficult, enduring nature of COVID-19, finding long-term habits of immunity is becoming more important than ever....
Read More♠ That chronic back pain is a message from your body. Are you listening? These 5 questions will help you gain insight. When back pain is occasional and acute, it generally has a really important message like: “Take me to the doctor! I’m injured—which is very helpful....
Read More♠ It’s not so much what you eat, but what you don’t eat ↓ When I was writing for the opinion section of The New York Times, I had a number of close advisers. On nutrition matters, I came to rely more and more heavily on David Katz....
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