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Learn How the 5 Niyamas Can Lead to a Balanced Life

The ancient spiritual teachings of yoga hold a lot of wisdom—useful even in today’s modern world. If you’re new to yoga philosophy, the five Niyamas are a great place to start. They are personal...

How to Maintain Ayurvedic Lifestyle on Vacation

Summer brings with it beautiful weather, a change in daily activities and—for many people—a complete lifestyle makeover. Family reunions, summer camps, social activities, and vacations are in full...

8 Ways to Practice Compassion For a Healthier and Stronger Relationship

Relationships can be one of the most joyful and fulfilling aspects of our lives, and they can also challenge us beyond comprehension. We've all heard that communication is the most important thing...

Healing After Loss: Meditation For Grieving

Grief can be one of the most difficult things to overcome and can make us feel like we’ve been thrown into an emotional storm. Grief, at its core, is overwhelming sadness caused by a loss of someone...

How to Identify and Conquer What is Holding You Back

Sometimes, it can feel like everyone else is achieving his or her goals in life, while you’re left struggling to figure out who you’re meant to be or what you want to do. You just can’t seem to make...

How to Use Meditation to Visualize Your Goals

One of the most inspiring and powerful things you can do as a human being is to visualize what it is that you want to manifest, and then make it happen. The power of the mind is astonishing and,...

How to Survive Emotional Turmoil – A Meditation for Calming Your Emotions

Being on an emotional rollercoaster is never a fun place to be and it can take its toll on you in devastating ways: from fatigue and resentment to complacency and depression. Life can be difficult...

Daily Practices For Spiritual, Mental, Emotional and Physical Well Being

Overall, Americans are not in a great state of health. One of the contributing factors is that most people link health exclusively to the physical body. While the physical body is important, when we...

10 Shower Free Ways to Freshen Up Post Yoga

You really want to fit in that yoga class before heading off to work, or before meeting friends out for happy hour, but you just don't have the extra time to freshen up after. When you’re rushing...

10-Minute Meditation Breaks

When kids get too rowdy, they’re given time-outs. Regardless of why parents and teachers administer a time-out, it’s ultimately meant to help children slow down, reconnect with the present moment,...

Free Yourself From Past Challenges Through Forgiveness

Finding the gifts in past challenges is one of the most key elements to living a life of emotional freedom. In order to move toward becoming the person you aspire to be, it’s important to lighten...

10 Ways to Bring More Compassion to the Workplace

Creating a culture of compassion in the workplace is where many successful companies are placing their attention today, and rightfully so. Researchers have cited studies that point to the power of a...

How to Transform Past Challenges Into Learning Experiences

Society has taught us to look at life—and the experiences we’ve had—more through the lens of negativity, doubt, and regret than positivity and confidence. Without a conscious effort to shift your...

On Again-Off Again Meditating: Does It Do Any Good?

Meditation is on the rise—and for good reason. It’s one of the best practices we have to help us manage stress, unplug from the busyness of our lives, and re-center ourselves. The daily practice of...

One Thing at a Time: How to End the Negative Cycle of Multitasking

Tackling one task or activity at a time has become a rare practice in a world that seems to place greater value on multitasking, much to the detriment of exhausted people everywhere. Most of us are...

How to Find Your Center in 3 Easy Steps

Deadlines, to-do lists, projects, and responsibilities: they all help make our lives feel a little too hectic, unmanageable, and even out of control. One of the greatest skills you can acquire is...

Spring Cleaning: Meditation to Tidy Up the Mind

For many of us, spring cleaning typically brings to mind images of clearing out the overabundance of clutter in our garage, attic, home, or office, and perhaps even painting or rearranging our...

Start Here! 5 Meditation Style for Beginners

Beginning a meditation practice can be both exciting and intimidating. If you asked 10 different people what style of meditation they practice, you might get 10 different answers. It's common to...

Following the 5 Yamas to Lead a Fuller Life

The ancient practice of yoga is so much more than the physical practice that we've come to know in modern times. The word "yoga" means union of body, mind, and spirit. If you look closer at the...

Conscious Communication: A Key Ingredient to Your Marriage

Our intimate relationships can be the most incredible, nurturing, and fulfilling relationships we can have as human beings. When two people come together in marriage or any long-term commitment, it...

From Choas to Calm in an Instant: How to Create a Positive Anchor

Life is stressful. It’s just the way it is … There’s nothing I can do about it … I can’t take a vacation, I’m too busy … I don’t have time to work out … I can’t get sick right now, I have too much...

Effective Communication: Building Rapport in the Workplace

Building and maintaining rapport in the workplace, or anywhere for that matter, might just be your best tool for cultivating a positive environment, both in and out of the office. Rapport is best...

7 Tips to Transition From Student to Teacher

The call to step into the role of teacher can be frightening. Even after your training, you might wonder if you know enough, if you’re ready, if you really have what it takes to be a good teacher....

4 Ways to Deepen Your Meditation Practice

You’ve been meditating consistently for an extended period of time now, and you’re ready to take your practice to the next level. Perhaps you’ve now reached a plateau and you’re wondering if...

I’ve Found My Path, But Wait! Were Did Everyone Go?

Have you ever had the experience of finding yourself on a new path in life and suddenly you feel like you’re all alone? You’ve just stepped into a new version of yourself. You’re becoming more aware...

10 New Year’s Practices to Improve Your Emotional Health

As you reflect back on the past year, identify opportunities for taking your emotional health to the next level next year. It’s important to be aware that anytime you set an important goal and...

10 Ways to Deepen Your Connections With Others

Life’s biggest lessons, opportunities, and gifts are found in your connections with others. It’s easy to think you have it all together when you’re flying solo through the carnival of life....

5 Steps to Get Unstuck

Feeling stuck—whether it’s in work, love, spiritual growth, or any other aspect of life—is frustrating. Sometimes you might feel directionless for long periods of time while other times you may just...

99 Reasons to Start Meditating

There’s big buzz around meditation, and for good reason. Research points to this once fringe practice as a highly effective technique for improving your life overall. With benefits ranging from...

No Drama Holiday: 10 Tips for Avoiding Emotional Family Traps

The holidays are meant to be a happy season—a time when family and friends come together to celebrate and reflect on the year. For many people, however, the holidays can spark feelings of anxiety,...

Every Choice Matters: What Are You Choosing?

For many, the new year brings a renewed sense of excitement, hope and motivation; an opportunity to create change that will boast the newness we so crave. Whether you had marvelous 2014 or one that...

Definition of Insanity: The Karmic Hamster Wheel

The definition of insanity as we know it - and we ALL know it - is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result". How many times in the course of a lifetime do we have...

Miley Cyrus Outrage: What does this say about us?

I'm not usually one to chime in on global controversy flooding every media outlet within our current space time continuum. This week, however, I have observed myriad comments around the recent VMA...

Partnering with Archetypes: Who’s Your Super Hero?

A prominent theme in my life this month has been around archetypes and how to partner with them to unfold my highest potential. I was originally introduced to archetypes about 6 years ago when I...

Seva: Being in Service to Others

Selfless service or Seva (a Sanskrit word) is a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award for the person performing it. In the past few years I have moved closer to an...

Guiding Children Toward Mindfulness-Based Practices

This month, we explore some practical principals for teaching children the value of living a life guided by mindfulness-based principals. Aligning our lives with spiritual laws puts us in touch...