Today I am grateful for adhomukha svanasana (downward-facing dog). This exhilarating posture is so super cool! It’s practiced in most yoga classes around the world and why not? It’s awesome! It brings us magnificent energy, calms our busy brain, slows the heart rate and stimulates our firing nerves. This is a brilliant foundational posture for elongating the spine, …
LOVE!
It’s true! All you need IS love! Let’s all fall in love just because! Paulo Coelho said, “Love makes all things precious, including you. It eliminates all constraints. Love is without limits, conditions, judgments, and hidden agendas.” When a person falls in love, the ventral area of the brain floods with dopamine (Mmm dopamine!). This …
Just go to your Happy Place!
Go to your happy place! Right now. Do it! It can be so therapeutic, sweet and cozy there! A ‘happy place’ is defined as a “place inside all of us where we are all happy and get the warm fuzzies. It’s where we’re insulated from the shitheads that make up just about everyone we encounter.” (Urban …
Mistakes are Rad.
Yay for mistakes! They teach us so much! A mistake is generally an action or decision that causes some pain, embarrassment, loss or shit storm. As bad as it may seem at the time, icky errors are great opportunities to enhance our personal evolution. Absolutely everything is a learning experience and learning is fabulous! It creates …
the Divine Spine
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine!” -Ralph Waldo Emerson. The human spine is a brilliant work of art! It houses nerves, ligaments, muscles, divine energy and all that sweet stuff! Crazy cool connections are being made up and down the spine all day. It’s a spectacular super highway for many important signals …
Electric Circuitry
“Our hair fashions might be just a trend, but if we investigate, we may find that we have been depriving ourselves of one of the most valuable sources of energy for human vitality” -Yogi Bhajan. Hair. It’s sexy. It grows faster than any other tissue in the body (besides bone marrow), esp in warm weather. …
Sealed with a Kiss
Pucker up Buttercup! Kissing is a fun and healthy way to add years to your life! People who are engaged in kissing produce endorphins that are 200 times more powerful than morphine in terms of narcotic effect! That’s why the kissing partners experience feelings of euphoric bliss. The simple anticipation of a kiss increases the flow …
Mula Bandha!
Mad respect for mula bandha! Mula means foundation, root, or source. Bandha basically means bondage or hold. It’s the lock which unlocks. As you activate the pelvic floor muscles at the perineum, you unlock the divine energy within (or rather, help wake it up). It’s located between your goods. The perineum musculature is shaped like …
Nonattachment
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” -Bertrand Russell Nonattachment (Aparigraha) is one of the ethical constraints (yamas) from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It means abstaining from greed and taking only what is necessary. Our society has an enormous problem with this! The yogi feels that …
Your Brain on Yoga
Yoga citta vritti nirodhah. “Yoga is the ending of disturbances of the mind.” There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, the same number of stars in our galaxy…maybe! As babies, we start off with about 100 billion brain cells. They don’t all last obviously. The brain weighs about three pounds and is the …