Happy New Year – 2013 is the Year of the Water Snake While I’m not an expert with Chinese Astrology, I am fascinated at how the Universe brings things to my attention. Today, February 10th at 3:20pm we begin the Year of the Water Snake. What I didn’t realize until...
Meditation
The Magical Health Benefits of Daily Meditation
Taking time daily to practice meditation is a great way to improve your health. Daily meditation can help reduce stress, release tension, relax, re-energize, and renew your mind, body, and Spirit. Challenged to find time to mediate? It can be something as short as...
Meditation
Meditation for health enhancement is a mind-body practice that has been used for thousands of years in Eastern religious and spiritual traditions. Generally speaking, meditation is a way of clearing the mind of distracting thoughts and emotions to increase physical...
6 Tips for Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
Do you ever have trouble falling asleep? Once you finally do get to sleep, does the smallest little noise wake you right back up? Like me, do you seem to finally be drifting off and in a really deep sleep about the time your alarm clock goes off in the morning? Are...
Moving Meditation: Pilates and Other Great Mind-Body Exercise Methods
I read an article the other day and it said, “Pilates isn’t a mind-body exercise in the meditative way that Yoga, Tai Chi, or Qi Gong are, but it does use your mind to influence and improve your body.” It seems evident to me that this author has probably never...
Through the Eyes of a Yogi: Connect and Discover Mind-Body, and Spirit
A good friend recommended the book Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda to me a while ago, and I’ve been slowly working my way through it! It is an excellent read for anyone interested in a life story filled with exceptional information about the...
Soham Mantra for Meditation
I recently started taking a Yoga meditation class to deepen my connection to center! While Pilates exercises are excellent as a form of moving meditation to focus on feeling and activating the energy flow throughout the body, it’s also important to find that still,...