Tag: health and wellness
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Quiet Power in Movement
There is power in movement. The movement of yoga. Its not a loud power, it does not yell out that it gives power. But it does, a quiet power in mind, body, and spirit. It does not boast to do this in 30 days, 60 days, or even 90 days. It is a lifetime practice…
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Quiet
How often are you quiet? How often do you just sit with yourself and allow yourself to think and feel? Do you find that you do something else to distract your own quiet? What would happen if you only allowed the silence to be uninterrupted? It can be scary to sit in stillness, to sit…
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Bad At Yoga
The title of this post pays homage to a yogi that I follow on Instagram whom found me because many of my hashtags would include “#badyoga or #badatyoga”. In fact, I still am bad at yoga. I tend not to follow the status quo in my practice and even how I started yoga was not…
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Thrive
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. – Maya Angelou As a yoga practitioner who practices at home, there are times when I feel that I don’t challenge myself enough. This is not just in my…
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Woman Divine
Yoga is a spiritual experience. It is a conversation between my soul and my body. The asana or posture is the third limb of yoga. On the outside, the asana can appear as a beautiful display of strength and/or flexibility such as Vrschikasana I or scorpion pose (see header image). It can also appear as…
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Thou shalt not steal joy
“A complex is stealing energy from our personality.” – Sunday Adelaja I have recently downloaded an app to monitor my app usage, mainly my use of social media apps such as Instagram and Twitter. I had come to believe that these apps, specifically Instagram, were providing me with no substance and I was wasting time,…
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Searching for Truth
As fire burns impurities and refines gold, so the fire of truth cleanses the yogi… – B. K. S. Iyengar I’ve been searching everywhere for truth. Do you know your own truth or are you still seeking it? There is a lot of conversation online and in books discussing finding one’s own truth and being…
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Going Out on a Limb
Are you giving more to life than it is giving to you? Have compassion for yourself.

