THE BENEFITS OF PRENATAL YOGA Prenatal yoga is more than adjusting postures for the pregnant body, it’s a practice that supports the journey of becoming a mother. Pregnancy is a time of transformation on both physical and spiritual levels. Intuition, perception and sensory clarity are heightened. The skills that are developed in prenatal yoga classes […]
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Interested in offering Yin & Restorative Yoga? Scott Davis is one of our lead facilitator for our upcoming Yin & Restorative Online Yoga Teacher Training. Check for upcoming dates here… Scott Davis has been sharing his passion for health as a doctor of Integrative Medicine, movement therapist, yoga teacher and health educator for the past
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Video – Yoga Practice on Awakening the Spine Study with Scott Davis in our 100 HR Course, to receive your 300 HR certification. Check upcoming dates here. SCOTT DAVIS CHINESE MEDICINE + YOGA FACILITATOR Scott Davis has been sharing his passion for health as a doctor of Integrative Medicine, movement therapist, yoga teacher and health
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by Scott Davis Health is a by-product of the pulsation between challenge and recovery, the dynamic dance of life that is the hallmark of all living things. This alive balance is also known as pendulation. Stress in and of itself is neither positive or negative, it is simply a trigger in response to stimulus. The
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By Monica Carr, ASY Alumni At the start of this year, riding on the coattails of freshly declared resolutions, I signed up for Awakened Spirit Yoga’s online doula and prenatal yoga teacher training. My top-ranked goal for the year—to conceive—motivated me. I thought it’d be a brilliant way to communicate loudly with the Universe my
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by Leza Lowitz Mindfulness is often defined as present-moment awareness of thoughts, emotions, body sensations and surroundings through a gentle lens. The practice of mindfulness is paying attention to thoughts, feelings and physical sensations without judgement—without labelling them “right” or “wrong.” Tuning into the present moment just as it is; not rehashing the past or
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AYURVEDIC VIEW ON POST PARTUM CARE “After giving birth a new mother is fragile, energetically open, and vulnerable, just as her new born. Love, patience, and gentleness are essential for everyone’s health and harmony.” Margo Shapiro Bachman How do we accomplish a truly nourishing postpartum period? Most health care providers are focused solely on pregnancy
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By Dr Sairupa Krishnamurti, N.D and Ayurveda Practitioner The child-bearing year is a sacred season of a woman/ birthing person’s life. How do we awaken into this time with a little more tender awareness, consciousness, and love? Is it possible to consider this time of pregnancy, birth and early parenting a sādhanā (spiritual practice)? In
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By Kathrin Brunner Yoga asana classes link movement with breath and encourage a mindful approach. An asana class creates conditions to practice encountering intensity with ease and to notice deeply what is arising in the present moment. Yoga is much deeper than physical ‘exercise’, it is a way of life with a long and intricate
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The study of the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy and birth can lead the yoga teacher and practitioner to grasp the miraculous complexity of the changes that occur in the female body. The female body is intimately connected to nature and the earth (gunas), following cycles of the seasons in various stages of her life
