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How Pranayama can benefit you
Pranayama sadhana changed my life...and in unexpected ways. Pranayama is an ancient yoga practice codified in India that focuses on expanding (or controlling) Prana and is one limb of the eight limb path of Ashtanga yoga.1 In this post, we define Pranayama, describe...
Infuse Joy Into Your Writing Routine: Small Practices for Big Results
Do you struggle with writing? Would you like to infuse joy into your writing process? If you said "Yes!," you're in the right place. Today, I choose to embrace my experience as a scientific writer, recognize it as an asset rather than a hindrance in my pursuit of...
How yoga therapy changed my life with diabetes
Setting the stage I was in my mid-30s at a yoga ashram outside Austin, Texas for a yoga therapy training. We were there learning how to support others on their healing journey and here I was in a 911 situation of my own. On a stormy June afternoon in the downstairs...
How Essential Oils Support Mindfulness
Have you ever been snapped out of the moment back to a memory of a place and time with your sense of smell? That’s the power of aroma and the limbic system. Essential oils are effective aromatic anchors that can also do the opposite. Essential oils can help you shift...
Shed to Create in 2022 with the January New Moon in Capricorn
Happy New Year! There's so much to say and yet, style and silence are gold. Economy of words is something I aspire to. My awareness of this concept has been elevated recently after watching “The Center Will Not Hold” - a moving documentary that captured Joan Didion's...
Why reducing stress is your best top priority
In my tender and troubled 23rd year, I blacked out behind the wheel of my BMW 318i with the hand-crank sunroof open. Heading home on Highway 90 in Gulfport, MS, I rolled right over the sea wall onto the sandy beach that balmy summer night. I don’t recall the moments...