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HeartMath Attitude Breathing® tool
A HeartMath Tip: Take five minutes several times a day, whether or not you’re feeling especially stressed, to try these simple steps adapted from the HeartMath Attitude Breathing® tool. • Focus on your heart as you breathe in. • Concentrate on a positive feeling or...
Chakra: Heart Chakra (Sanskrit term: Anahata Chakra)
If you are familiar with chakras, then you can tell from my logo that I love chakras. The rainbow-colored spheres within my logo are representative of the chakra system within the body. If you are unfamiliar, here’s a quick lesson: There are seven energy centers...
Kubera Mudra for Confidence, Achieving Goals, Finding Objects, and More
Mudra means “seal” in Sanskrit. It’s a symbolic or ritual gesture using primarily the hands. Each position is believed to have a specific effect. Specific positions can lead to specific states of consciousness symbolized by the hand positions. For example, if a...
Listen to Music for a Better Brain and Body
HEALTHY NEWS Listen to Music for a Better Brain and Body Research suggests that listening to music bestows mind-body benefits in the following ways: Music improves your brain. Music -- of any kind -- fires neurons in the brain that in turn boost memory and mental...
Pasta Fagiolo
One of my dearest friends cooks, bakes, and grills like a professional chef. She loves to chop vegetables, says things like “ramekins” and has her own tablecloth named after her—The Christine—for purchase at The Palate in Stockholm, WI: http://www.thepalate.net/. ...
Into The Light by Billy McLaughlin
FEATURED YOGA MUSIC When I started to write my humble review of this CD, I started to cry. I have such deep, sincere respect and admiration for Billy McLaughlin—our local, internationally known musician. I felt the weight of the world to do justice introducing him to...
“All my life’s a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around..” ~ Harry Chapin
Each month, “My Better Day” newsletter contains tips for your yoga practice, yoga quotes to bring yoga off the mat and into your life, affirmations to brighten your day and motivate, and more! It is my wish for your well-being that I send this newsletter to help make...
Wheel (Sanskrit term: Urdva Mukha Dhanurasana or the more advanced Chakrasana)
I chose this pose for obvious reasons—the focus on this issue is the circle! Full disclosure—I don’t cue wheel in my classes; and in my personal practice, I typically use a fitness ball as a prop for my first wheel and then progress to not using a prop. It is not a...
Using Mandalas as a meditative practice
In the opening section we talked about medicine wheels. “An odd variation sometimes found in medicine wheels is the presence of a passageway, or a doorway, in the circles. The outer ring of stones will be broken, and there will be a stone path leading up to the center...
The Sacral Chakra and the Circle
If you are familiar with chakras, then you can tell from my logo that I love chakras. The rainbow-colored spheres within my logo are representative of the chakra system within the body. If you are unfamiliar, here’s a quick lesson: There are seven energy...
