Self-Care is Priceless

When your feet touch the earth, do you feel her pulse? Do you sense your connection to all that is? In Energy Medicine Yoga®, the earth element is synonymous with self-care, which, as one teacher notes, is “the most important investment we can make in ourselves.” How can yoga help you create a unique self-care approach for enhancing your current - and future - quality of life? Cathy shares ideas and a specific, accessible practice in this inspiring post.

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What is Yoga Nidra?

Many of our students reveal that their favorite part of class is the time spent lying in shavasana, especially when it includes a yoga nidra! Even though this practice seems simple , it has a wealth of benefits and a fascinating evolution. Learn more about what yoga nidra is and what it can do for you with this 3 minute read.

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Must We Submit to a Guru?

The role of Guru has come under scrutiny of late, with a seemingly constant barrage of scandals in the yoga world. Many serious practitioners are torn between loyalty to a lineage and speaking what is in their hearts. Where can we, as modern yogis and yoginis, find answers and guidance to this quandary? In the same place we have already been finding it: the classic texts of Yoga.

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