September is National Yoga Awareness Month! A month to promote the health benefits of yoga and teach people about the long history rooted in teaching individuals the tools and foundation to empower themselves. Yoga is not only for people who want to touch their toes or meditate; it is for everyone! Some types of yoga […]
Breathing for Overall Health and Pain Control
Breathing is the basis for everything we do. It is a natural and an involuntary process. Normally a person takes 10-14 breaths per minute, so up to 30,000 + breaths per day! So how then, can breathing affect us on a deeper level? Breathing plays a role in regulating mental and emotional states, helps modulate the autonomic […]
The Benefits of Yoga
What are the origins of yoga? There are many theories as to when yoga began, however, it most likely developed around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE in ancient India. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is muddy at best, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of […]