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Natasha teaches Hatha Yoga in Edmonton, Canada, and runs Yoga & Spa Retreats in Maui, Hawaii.
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On average, each human takes 60 million breaths in their lifetime.
Breathe slowly and make the best of your 60 million.
Reblog if you’re going to yoga class today.
7 Ways Slow Yoga Promotes Healthy Weight Management
Students frequently ask if and how slow, meditative Hatha yoga helps manage weight.
The short answer is YES, and here’s how:
1. Extended holding of specific yoga poses that gently massage the internal organs promotes improved metabolism, such as ‘spinal lift’.
2. Through relaxation and stress management, it prevents emotional overeating.
3. Learning how to be ‘present’ will show itself in the way you eat - you will chew more slowly, digest your food more easily, and you will be less likely to binge eat if you are fully aware of the way you are eating.
4. It is a longterm approach to weight loss, a way of finding balance and acceptance in your body through mastering the mind and breath.
5. It is a gentle and less dramatic way to lose weight. The effects will take longer to set in, but your ability to maintain your new healthy weight will be stable because of deeply transformed habits and ways of thinking about your body.
6. Constant, slow, deep breathing makes you less hungry. Try an experiment: Next time you have an unhealthy craving, try taking 3 deep, full belly breaths and see if you still desire it.
7. Increasing awareness of our bodies as a result of holding poses longer will encourage you to take better care of it. You truly have to take a look within before you will learn to not take your body for granted.
Slow yoga is an amazing addition to any healthy weight loss program. Consider adding a class to your routine today!
Love & Light,
Natasha
Reblog if you’re a teen who loves YOGA.
The Bedside Quote : A Simple Exercise for my Yoga Students to Inspire Blissful Thinking
What quote inspires you most?
Select a quote to place on your bedside table to read before you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning.
Jot it down on a piece of paper, or even handwrite it nicely and place it in a small frame.
Be sure to place it somewhere you will come into contact with each morning and night. For example, next to your cell phone or tied to your light switch.
When you read your quote, let it sink in. Think mini meditation. Become aware of your breathing. Repeat the words out loud or in your mind. Use them to set the tone for your next action, then do it.
If you can’t come up with a quote, try looking for inspiration on the many quotation websites available online. Search for quotes by people who inspire you. Tumblr is a great way to explore quotes and other sources of inspiration!
Stuck? Feel free to use the ones below:
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered by your own nonsense. ~ Emerson
Photo via lovelydreamms.tumblr.com ~
5 Easy Ways to Get into Yoga this Spring | Tiny Buddha
This is a contribution by Mandy Burstein “Letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.” ~Unknown As we welcomed the Spring Equinox on March 20th, with it came a sense of lightness in the air—in our bodies with healthier food options, in our minds as we flirt with the idea of summer on the horizon, and in our spirits as we are able to enjoy later sunsets with loved ones. Spring also welcomes change and renewal, creating an opportunity to cleanse ourselves of hibernating winter habits and find inspiration in nature as wildflowers bloom all around us. What better time to introduce (or reintroduce!) yourself to the ancient practice of yoga. Click here to read the rest of the article!
