Science confirms that yoga benefits your mental health in the most delicious ways. Control your anxiety, relieve depression & breathe! This post from Core Spirit highlights the study conducted with lyengar yoga. If you are diagnosed with depression, just take a deep breath and join yoga classes to experience significant reduction in symptoms without the side effects ... Continue Reading
Mindful Breathing Practice for Healing Trauma
Breath is fundamental to life, but we can also use mindful breathing as a powerful technique for clearing trauma from our bodies. This post from UpLift showcases how to heal ourselves with a practice of active breathing. There were ten of us in a circle, heads toward each other, the scent of sage swirling in ethereal forms above my body. This is the first time. I’m in a ... Continue Reading
Neuroscience Confirms Pranayama Leads To Lasting Happiness and Health
Scientists are now telling us that giving each breath a thought might actually lead us to a place of deep and lasting happiness and health. We breathe without giving it a second thought and take this particular bodily function completely for granted. Yet, scientists are now telling us that giving each breath a thought might actually lead us to a place of deep and lasting ... Continue Reading
Yogic Breathing
Pranayama, the yogic breath, is different from the breath used for surfing the Internet or driving around town or even during sleep. It's a breath punctuated by an extended inhale where the rib cage expands, aerates the lungs and activates the parasympathetic nervous system - that part of the central nervous system that promotes our sense of well-being. Most of the time, ... Continue Reading
Kundalini Yoga – Unleashing the Spirituality Within Us
(BeWellBuzz) Among the many different types of yoga, Kungalini Yoga is one of the most recently ones which is now practiced widely across United States. Kundalini Yoga refers to spiritual energy; this kind of yoga enhances the spiritual power of a person to overcome obstacles in life. Kundalini Yoga is specially focused on "the spine". In literal terms, Kundalini means ... Continue Reading