Do you need to practice yoga inversions while pregnant?

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For many, inversions (turning yourself upside down) are a favorite part of their yoga practice. One that has many benefits, including improving blood flow, calming the nervous system, and balancing hormones. In Prenatal Yoga classes,

Five common misalignments of the extended side angle pose

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Extended Side Angle Pose, Utthita Parsvakonasana, is a great pose for strengthening the legs, stretching the groin, and stimulating the abdominal organs. The pose also stretches the shoulders, and the different variations ensure that you

Finding Balance with Outdoor Yoga

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It is amazing to see so many lovely photos of yogis in outdoor settings holding a pose or sitting in meditation surrounded by trees, a sunset, or a big forest. Outdoor yoga really makes for

Cacao Nibs Organic: 5 Health Benefits

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Everyone, and I mean everyone, likes chocolate. However, and to my great disappointment, it’s not the magical health food cure I wish it were. It makes me very happy to know that I can have

Modifications to Yoga Poses for Sensitive Hands

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Yoga practitioners often experience wrist pain or sensitivity. If you’re one of them, you know just how it can affect your practice. It seems that when the wrists are not in the picture, all poses

Yoga Poses for Fire Element

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The yoga tradition teaches that we are inextricably linked to nature, with the five elements as the archetypal building block of all things. We feel better on every level of our being when we are

How to do King Cobra Pose

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The King Cobra is a more challenging version of the Cobra or Baby Cobra. The degree of curve or bend in the spine is what makes the difference between these three poses. Try working towards

The Mindful Path to Awakening: Signs of Your Evolution

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According to Buddhism, mindfulness is the path to awakening. What are we awakening to or from? There are many ways of defining and describing the term “awakening,” but one could say that we’re awakening by