Yoga Bolsters Help Your Yoga Positions

There are Junior Yoga Bolsters and Standard Yoga Bolsters and Round Yoga Bolsters. How do you tell which of these yoga accessory is best for your yoga practice? First we need to define what the qualities and characteristics each one brings to your particular practice. Junior Bolsters are narrower in width than the standard model. [...]

See the Light Even In Darkness

I’ve never been scared of the dark. Ever since I was a kid, I seemed to associate darkness with safety and coziness. It’s not strange for me to keep the lights low in the evening or to take a nighttime swim (sans pool lights) in the summer duration or give a little jump for joy [...]

Releasing Winter and Joyfully Jumping into Spring

Despite today’s chilly temperatures here in NY, I am in a Spring state of mind. And I think it has something to do with the big closet purge that had me fulling up bags of clothes to donate until the wee hours of Sunday dawn. Ooooohhhhh, what a feeling!

My closet is far from empty, but [...]

Yoga Is Not An Aerobic Sport

Thankfully, yoga is not a discipline that pushes aerobic exercises on you, but it will give you some self esteem. Doing yoga is just not intense. There are other types of exercise that will get your cardio up like jogging or cycling and these are great compliments to yoga. Practicing yoga improves your body and [...]

Nothing Says Style Like The Lugger Bag

You have many choices of yoga bags in the marketplace, but none are quite as stylish as the Lugger Bag. Roomy enough to carry mats, blocks, towels, yoga clothing and more, this handsome model will find its way for even more use once you own it. A great bag to carry on a plane. This [...]

Getting Started with Yoga or Starting Again

After practicing yoga for a few years, I started to branch out and attend workshops and conferences to expand my knowledge of yoga in all its forms. It was fun to go to a class and feel like a beginner again. Learning new styles and experiencing new teachers was not only fun, but it deepened [...]

Get Your Head Out of Your Asana

This past weekend I enjoyed two intense days of yoga training. I’m in the thick of a training program in an ancient yoga tradition. Many of my classmates are similar to me — they have a decade of so of yoga experience and much of their studies have been in a different style of yoga [...]

Watermelon juice helps fight obesity

Argenine, an amino acid present in Watermelon juice may fight obesity, according to U.S. researchers.
The study published in the Journal of Nutrition, explains that rats who were either fed low-fat or high-fat diet supplements containing the amino acid Arginine by a 12-week period, saw more than 60% reduction in body fat.

Friday Inspiration: Being Different But Not Separate

I’ve always been a bit different from my peers. I tend to look at things differently. I’m ashamed to confess it, but there are times my ego runs wild and I start feeling superior and separate from others. Different does not equate to better. Different is simply…different. The truth is, while I am quirky ole [...]

Yoga Helps Older Adults

As we age, our bodies change.  As we grow a perfect foam block would be the Big Blue Foam Block that is the ultimate support for taller yogis. Its generous size is ideal for use in standing poses, as well as in supported poses.

Simple Yoga supplies such as blocks, rollers, bolsters and wedges add tremendous [...]