Your body will eventually fail you.
Befriending it now is the only path to graceful aging.
Your body will eventually fail you.
Befriending it now is the only path to graceful aging.
The seasonal transition is upon us. The temperatures are fluctuating in a downward trend. Rain has started to reappear in the forecast. School is starting across the country, and I’ve seen not only my first apricot-colored turning leaves, but also the first Halloween decorations for sale in stores. (Too soon? 🎃 Not if it’s one of your favorite times of year.)
I know you just heard from me yesterday, and it’s extremely rare that I send out more than one email in a week. But today is Global Yoga Therapy Day! That’s a big deal for the roughly 5,500 of us worldwide who are certified yoga therapists – as we continue to work toward spreading the word about this beautiful work. So, I’m sharing some resources for those of you who are interested.
There are a couple of things I hear (a lot) when people talk about meditation:
“I'm not good at it.”
Or, “I think I'm doing it wrong. My thoughts are all over the place.”
Or, “Whenever I sit down to do it, my mind gets really busy.”
Here’s the thing: your thinking mind is a busy place – all the time.
Nicole Bratt is a certified yoga therapist and experienced yoga teacher, located in Seattle, WA, offering private yoga sessions, public yoga classes, special yoga events, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga retreats – both in person and virtually online.
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Make no mistake: anything done with intention can be yoga.
In the Western world, when we hear the word yoga, we often think about movements and poses performed on a mat. It makes sense that, for many of us, āsana – the physical postures – has been the entry point to the practice. Indeed, this was my own introduction to yoga once upon a time.