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Yoga for Stress, Anxiety and Better Sleep: Gentle Practices That Help
Yoga for stress, anxiety and better sleep: gentle breathing, restorative poses and yoga nidra to try tonight, and when to check in with your doctor first.
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Yoga Membership vs Class Pack: Which Is Right for You?
Yoga membership vs class pack vs drop-in: how to choose based on how often you practice, what each includes, and the simple math to find your best value.
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Why Take a Private Yoga Class? Benefits, Who It's For and What to Expect
Why take a private yoga class? The real benefits of one-on-one yoga, who it helps most, what a first session looks like, and home vs studio sessions.
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What to Expect in Your First Yoga Class (and How to Feel Ready)
What to expect in your first yoga class: what to wear and bring, when to arrive, studio etiquette, and how modifications work. A friendly beginner's guide.
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What Is a Yoga Workshop, and Is It Worth Going To?
What is a yoga workshop and how is it different from a regular class? The kinds of workshops, who they're for, what to expect and how to pick your first one.
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What Is a Sound Bath and What Does It Feel Like?
What is a sound bath, and what does it feel like? What happens during one, the instruments used, how to prepare, and where to find sound baths on Long Island.
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What Is Vinyasa Yoga? A Beginner-Friendly Explanation
What is vinyasa yoga? What the word means, what a vinyasa flow class feels like, how it compares to hatha and yin, and how to know if flow is right for you.
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What Is Thai Yoga Bodywork? What to Expect From a Session
What is Thai yoga bodywork? How this clothed, floor-based practice of assisted stretching and acupressure works, what to wear, and how to book a session.
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What Is Sadhana? How to Build a Daily Spiritual Practice
What is sadhana? The meaning of this Sanskrit word, what a daily spiritual practice can look like, how to start one at home, and free texts to begin with.
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What Is Kirtan? A Beginner's Guide to Call and Response Chanting
What is kirtan? A beginner's guide to call and response chanting: where it comes from, what happens at a kirtan, what to bring, and why you needn't sing well.
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What Is Donation-Based Yoga? How Pay-What-You-Can Classes Work
What is donation-based yoga? How pay-what-you-can classes work, how much to give, who they're for, and where donations go at our Rockville Centre classes.
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What Happens in a Reiki Session? A First-Timer's Guide
What happens in a Reiki session? What Reiki is, what it feels like, how a session flows from start to finish, and how to book Reiki in Rockville Centre.
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What Happens at a Yoga Retreat? A Simple Guide for First-Timers
What happens at a yoga retreat? A typical day, what's included, whether beginners belong, what to pack, and how to choose between a day retreat and a week away.
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What Does Acupuncture Feel Like? A First-Timer's Guide
What does acupuncture feel like? How the needles feel, what happens in a first session, how to prepare, and how acupuncture can support your yoga practice.
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Restorative Yoga vs Yin Yoga: What's the Difference?
Restorative yoga vs yin yoga: both are slow and still, but they feel very different. How each one works, who it suits, and how to pick the right class.
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Is Yoga Good for Back Pain? A Gentle, Honest Guide
Is yoga good for back pain? When gentle yoga can help, when to see a doctor first, poses that often feel good, and how to practice safely with an ache.
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Is Online Yoga as Good as In-Studio Yoga? An Honest Comparison
Is online yoga as good as in-studio yoga? An honest look at the pros of each, when livestream or on demand works best, and how to get more from home practice.
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How Often Should You Do Yoga to See Results?
How often should you do yoga to see results? An honest answer from a studio owner: why consistency beats intensity, and how to build a routine you can keep.
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Gentle Yoga for Beginners: Where to Start When You're New or Stiff
Gentle yoga for beginners: what a gentle class is like, simple poses to try at home, how to start if you're stiff or out of practice, and which class to try.
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Corporate Yoga: The Benefits for Teams and How It Works
Corporate yoga benefits for teams: stress relief, focus and connection, plus how on-site and studio programs work for Long Island offices and businesses.
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Chiropractic Care and Yoga: Do They Work Well Together?
Chiropractic care and yoga: how they work together, what a chiropractic visit involves, when to see a chiropractor, and how to practice yoga between visits.
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The Sweetness of Surrender
What if surrender is not defeat but a gift? Teacher Meghan Henderson on the yogic meaning of surrender, from childhood memories to the yoga mat.
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Between the Head and the Heart: Exploring the Throat Chakra
The throat chakra, Vishuddha, sits between the head and the heart. Explore its symbolism, anatomy and a simple practice for listening and speaking truly.
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Beyond Spiritual Bypassing: The True Meaning of Compassion
Yoga does not ask us to look away from suffering. Why spiritual bypassing misses the point, and how karma yoga calls us toward compassion in action.
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Spiritual Devotion: Finding Bhakti Yoga
Teacher Mackenzie Truman came to yoga for a beach body and found bhakti, the yoga of devotion. What devotion means and how it grows from the mat outward.
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Grief, Love and 2020 Vision
Teacher Adriana Garcia on losing her dog, grieving her father and finding a reservoir of love underneath it all. A reflection on grief as a doorway to healing.
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A Powerful Mind: What Three Years of Daily Planks Taught Me About Meditation
Teacher Pamela Concannon planked every day for three years and discovered concentration, drishti and the yoga sutras' path to a calm, powerful mind.
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How's Your Karma Treating You? Understanding Karma in Yoga Philosophy
Karma is more than payback. Meredith Zelman Narissi unpacks karma as action, desire and intention, and what Patanjali's sutras say about true freedom.
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Switching the Bracelet: Sattva and the Practice of Criticizing No One
A swami switched his bracelet every time he criticized someone. Amanda DiGiovanna on sattva, rajas, tamas and filling the mind with goodness instead.
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More Tolerant Than a Tree, More Humble Than a Blade of Grass
Our culture pushes us toward extremes. Amanda DiGiovanna on tolerance, humility and the yamas and niyamas as guardrails that keep the soul on the road.
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Training for Sainthood: The Yogi Has No Enemies
The Srimad Bhagavatam teaches that the yogi holds no enmity, even toward those who hate them. Amanda DiGiovanna on emptying your enemy box for good.
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Finding Balance: Giving, Self-Care and a Silent Retreat
After a year of grief and codependency, Christina M. Rau went on a silent retreat and heard that giving is the path to joy. Here is how she found balance.
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Sankalpa: Setting an Intention That Carries You Through
Teacher Adriana Garcia on how a sankalpa, a heartfelt intention set at the end of practice, carried her through divorce and hardship toward freedom.
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Finding Gratitude in the Dark
Gratitude for sunrises is easy. SueJean Naglieri explores the harder practice: finding gratitude in pain and adversity, patiently and only when ready.
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Leave It at the Stream: What Are You Carrying?
A teacher carries a stranger across a stream and lets it go. His student stews for hours. Jodi Langevin on noticing what we carry onto the yoga mat.
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Saucha: Purity as Nourishing Embodiment
Stephanie Naham on saucha, the niyama of purity: how a clear body and environment support a clear mind, plus simple ways to practice it every day.
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10 Yoga Poses You Might Be Doing Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
Common alignment mistakes in forward fold, plank, down dog, chaturanga, chair, triangle and more, with simple fixes from teacher Allison Dash.
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Peace Is a Practice: Simple Focusing Exercises for a Busy Mind
Peace is not found, it is practiced. Danielle Ging on anxiety, the mind we carry everywhere, and simple focusing exercises to take yoga off the mat.
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For the Love of Yoga: Shiva, Shakti and Sacred Relationships
Gabriella Tripodi on the difference between loving and owning, and how Shiva and Shakti teach us to nurture sacred relationships, with others and ourselves.
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Traditions of Reconnection: An Autumn Practice of Renewal
Autumn invites completion and renewal. Melissa Boo on seasonal traditions, a personal retreat and releasing false identities to reconnect with your true nature.
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A Guide to the Seven Chakras: Qualities, Imbalances and Poses
A clear guide to the seven major chakras: element, sound, color, signs of balance and imbalance, and yoga poses to support each one, by Allison Dash.
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How Do You Divine Love? Bhakti, Radha and Krishna
From a playground wedding at age seven to the love story of Radha and Krishna, Cali Pulice explores bhakti yoga and the practice of divine love.
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Shiva and Shakti: Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energy
Lisa Braun on Shiva and Shakti, the ida and pingala nadis, and yoga poses, breathwork and community practices to balance masculine and feminine energy.
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Saucha for the Messy Among Us: Letting Go of Emotional Clutter
Bec Gathmann-Landini confesses she is an emotional hoarder. A funny, honest take on saucha, purity, as clearing out the mental mess we no longer need.
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Pranayama: Your Breath as a Tool for Anxiety
Holding your breath in a hard pose? Gabriella Tripodi explains pranayama, how shallow breathing feeds anxiety, and how a slow breath brings you back.
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Reality as a Reflection of the Heart
As she changed on the mat, Renata Langer watched her community change too. A reflection on sangha, co-creating our reality and loving each other whole.
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Finding Your One-Pointed Focus in Winter
Winter pulls us to hibernate. Allie Kornbluth shares how a season of study in the mountains taught her to fix her gaze, find balance and come home to the mat.
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Fight Your War With Utility, Not Anger
Yoga philosophy on anger: why reacting in rage backfires, how Krishna taught Arjuna to act without hatred, and how to make anger a meditation point.
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7 Ways to Ease Anxiety in the Moment
When anxiety hits, you need relief, not analysis. Michelle Valdner shares seven simple tools, from 1:2 breathing to gentle yoga, to calm body and mind.
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Heartbreak and Patience: What Falling Out of Headstand Taught Me
Teacher Adriana Garcia fell flat out of headstand in front of the class. How small heartbreaks on the mat build strength, grace and real patience.
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Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of an Imperfect Practice
Wabi sabi finds beauty in what is imperfect, unfinished and impermanent. Amanda DiGiovanna on bringing that wisdom to your yoga practice and your life.
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Humility: When the Mask Comes Off
Why our most humiliating moments can be our greatest gifts. Amanda DiGiovanna on masks, pedestals and how humility clears the path toward truth.
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Surrender Is Strength, Not Defeat
When did surrender come to mean defeat? SueJean Naglieri redefines letting go as courage: staying ambitious without clinging to outcomes, one breath at a time.
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How a True Meditation Practice Found Me
Restorative teacher Eva Houlihan spent weeks unable to move after surgery. Stillness made her sit with her thoughts, and a real meditation practice was born.
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Oops, I Dropped the Lemon Tart: The Beauty in Our Mistakes
A world-famous chef turned a dropped dessert into a signature dish. Amanda DiGiovanna on chitta, old conditioning and learning to admire the hard stuff.
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Getting Out of Our Heads: A Simple Noticing Meditation
How much of life do we miss living in our heads? Teacher Lauren Petricca shares a two-minute morning noticing meditation that starts in mountain pose.
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Comparison Is the Thief of Freedom
Keep your eyes on your own mat. Amanda DiGiovanna on comparison, drishti, doing your own karma and how presence reveals the path meant only for you.
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The Benefits of Restorative Yoga for Fall
Fall is busy, and the transition can knock us off balance. Eva Houlihan explains how restorative yoga lowers stress, aids sleep and supports immunity.
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Sensitivity: The Courage to Listen to Your Inner Wisdom
Why does yoga ask us to feel more? Amanda DiGiovanna on buddhi, the quiet inner voice, and how refining awareness pose by pose teaches us to trust ourselves.
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The Yogic Identity: You Are Not the Glove
A teacher's analogy: the body is a glove, shaped like the hand but not the hand. Amanda DiGiovanna on false identity, ahamkara and loving what lies beneath.
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Equal Vision: Seeing the Self in Everyone
The Bhagavad Gita says the wise see all beings with equal vision. Amanda DiGiovanna on separatism, racism, Ram Dass and clearing ourselves to see others truly.
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Wondrous Witnessing: Impermanence, Forgetting and Remembering
From a drafty apartment in Italy to brushing teeth in India, Amanda DiGiovanna on impermanence, maya and the witness within who never changes.
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The Lion Who Thought He Was a Sheep
Vivekananda's story of a lion raised by sheep, and what it teaches about false identity. Yoga is the lake that shows you your true reflection.
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The Acute Case of the Angry Yogi
Allie Kornbluth gets honest about anger, separation and fear, and shares the yogic tools her teachers gave her: asana, cooling foods, breath, prayer and seva.
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A Warrior of Spiritual Peace
Can there be a peaceful warrior? Bec Gathmann on ahimsa as action: noticing injustice, checking our privilege and choosing the harder road of compassion.
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Rebirth: Dying and Being Born Every Moment
Packing up old stuff, Jenya Raystes finds relics of people he no longer is. A reflection on impermanence, the Buddha's question and the I am behind change.
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Saucha and Recovery: Clearing the Debris Like the Ocean
Allie Kornbluth shares her path from addiction to recovery, surfing and the yoga mat, and how saucha, purity, became her practice of service and gratitude.
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Spring Reawakening: Rebuilding After Life Changes
When Lisa Braun lost her job, everyone needed her to be OK. A spring reflection on sadhana, standing in the rubble, and rebuilding in your own time.