Bodywork & Energy Healing
How to Raise Your Vibrations
Einstein said that everything is energy. Every person, place, or thing vibrates at a different frequency. Positive vibrational energy is energy that has superior quality and is associated with joy, good health, and serenity. Here is how to raise your vibration.
Techniques to Balance the Sacral Chakra
The sacral chakra is called Svadhisthana. It is the second primary chakra in many meditative practices. It is an emotional sphere that when blocked indicates fear issues. The following guide teaches you how to open up your chakra.
Techniques to Balance the Root Chakra
The root chakra is the foundation of many meditation practices. It is located at the base of the spine. The root chakra encourages people to connect with the ground below them and to be more present and humble. The root chakra in many meditations is the first one to be balanced.
Chakra Balancing for the Throat
Balancing your throat chakra can help you to better express yourself. The throat chakra is the center for voice, sound, and listening. It works in conjunction with your mouth, ears, thyroid gland, and brain. Meditating for this chakra can help you to lucid dream and find a deeper sense of calm.
How to Get Into a Meditative State
We can learn to build and maintain a coherent state of peaceful emotion and cultivate a quiet mind. By entraining our senses into a coherent state, we draw our nervous system and bring our brain into a meditative state.
3 Amazing Youtube Channels for Belly Dancing
Belly dancing is a great way to build confidence, express your femininity, and connect with your body!
An Original Meditation Exercise: Praying the Prayerless Prayer
Based on my practice of the yoga techniques taught by Paramahansa Yogananda, this original exercise offers a routine for quieting the body and mind, which may be engaged any time of the day that one feels stressed and in need of relaxation.
Hatha Yoga Energy: Be Receptive
Making an effort in yoga could ruin your state of receptivity. It's important to achieve a state of willingness, of deep relaxation, and of steady presence. With this approach, we do yoga poses while being mindful of the joints working and muscles moving.
Crystals for the Sign of Taurus
Information on the beneficial properties of crystals to benefit those born under the zodiac sign of Taurus.
Does Energy Healing Work? (Science and Biomechanics)
Energy healing has moved beyond the concept of an alternative and spiritual therapy. Science is continuing to showcase how bioelectromagnetics are the heart of healing through the power of energy and touch.
Yoga’s History: From Mystery to Modern Understanding
Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame. – B.K.S. Iyengar
How to Do Deep Yogic Breathing
You can inhale and exhale up to seven times as much air (oxygen and prana) during deep yogic breathing than in a superficial, chest-based breathing.
Importance of Breathing in Yoga
Breathing is a central part of doing yoga. Understanding the different kinds of breathing you do in yoga, will help you to find new and healing ways to practice yoga as well as meditate.
My Experience Completing a Yoga Therapy Training
It took me 3.5 years to complete a Yoga Therapy Foundations program that should have taken me 1 year to complete. Here is my experience and opinion of the training.
Using the Power of Sound to Heal
There are ancient and scientific remedies related to sound healing. The process integrates profound methods that can alter the emotional, physical, and mental body to a state of complete transformation.
Does Biotin Help Hair Growth?
Biotin is a B Vitamin, also known as Vitamin H, that contributes to the body’s natural process of converting food into energy. It also plays an important role in nail, skin, and hair health. Some say biotin supplementation can speed up hair growth.
Yoga Therapy: What Is It and What Can It Do for You?
Yoga therapists integrate, mindfully and by design, the limbs of yoga into their therapeutic work with students and clients. The eight limbs of Yoga can be used for healing the body and the mind in a complete and integrated therapy.
Yoga vs. Pilates or Yogilates: What Is Better for You?
Read this comparison between Yoga, Pilates and Yogilates.
Yoga vs. Yoga Therapy: What to Choose?
Doing yoga feels therapeutic but this does not mean that yoga therapy is the same as yoga. Yoga therapy focuses on designing a personalized practice using a sequence of poses.
Chakra Balancing for the Heart
Balancing out your heart chakra can help you find better relationships, learn how to release negative emotions, and find ways to finally forgive and let yourself free. The heart chakra is a space for liberation and opening your eyes. I encourage you to open yourself to this space and start new.
Role of Yoga in Stress Management
Stress has become part of most of our daily lives. It is challenging to find a person who isn't stressed these days. Even children today aren't spared from the clutches of stress.
Book Review: Structural Yoga Therapy
Intended for yoga teachers and committed yogis and yoginis, the Structural Yoga Therapy book teaches how to use yoga to bring health and balance to one’s own body or that of a student. Beginning yoga students can find useful suggestions to consider when choosing a yoga style and a yoga teacher.
Yoga Boosts Self-Awareness: Why Is This Important?
Yoga is a powerful way to influence your personal development, especially self-awareness. You are self-aware when you have a conscious knowledge of your own character, feelings, motives, and desires.
What Does Science Say About Yogi Mental Claims?
Some practitioners of yoga mental habits claim to perform some amazing physical feats. What does science have to say about that?
7 Crystals to Boost Creativity
Creative skills are not always easy to discover and work with. They may be left behind due to stressful and busy lifestyles. Crystals can be used to enhance creativity in many ways including increasing focus, boosting confidence and increasing the flow of new ideas.
Is Sound Bath Therapy a Way to Heal Mind and Body?
Want to know all about the Sound Bath Therapy? This modern day alternative healing has its roots in the ancient wisdom of eastern philosophy.
Top 5 Benefits of Aragonite
Crystal healing has been used for centuries. This article discusses the benefits of the crystal aragonite.
How to Practice Yoga Safely
Yoga is safer than many other exercise types. Here I offer tips for a safe yoga practice.
Paramahansa Yogananda's Book, "Scientific Healing Affirmations"
The practical application of yogic affirmations results in the amazing healing recovery from any malady, whether it originates from physical, mental, or spiritual sources. This book teaches the method for effective practice of these marvelous healing techniques.
6 Yoga Breathing Practices for Healthy Lungs
Vital lung capacity is essential to your health. It is crucial that you keep your lungs strong and healthy with yoga and breathing practices. This can help slow down the breathing decline associated with aging.
How to Reach Silence: Insights Into Yoga and Meditation
When we live in the "here and now," we stop making judgments. It is when we are completely silent that we can communicate with objects or with others.
The 3-Step Secret Breathing Formula to Exhale Stress and Inhale Happiness
Anyone, anywhere, anytime can practice this 3-step secret breathing formula. Incorporate this in your daily schedule to remain stress free.
Meditate in Line With Your Body Constitution
Meditation is a technique to calm the mind, but it is not a one-size-fits-all method. According to Ayurveda, the best meditation approach is the one that is in line with your body constitution.
7 Crystals to Help Ease Anxious Thoughts
Anxious thoughts can be unbearable and impact our everyday life and activities. Crystal healing can be used in easing these thoughts and is safe to use alongside psychotherapy and medication.
6 Yoga Movements to Improve Your Posture
The health of your back influences your breathing, the flow of nerve information, the health of your organs, the digestive process, and your level of energy and sense of wellness. Optimal breathing, improved mood, enhanced focus and youthful appearance are benefits of a regular yoga practice.
Are We All Beginners in Yoga? How to Let Yoga Poses Happen
All yoga practitioners, new or experienced, must follow the same laws when practising yoga asanas. The difference is in the degree of flexibility, but with no major difference. At every step, even the experienced yogis must return to the basics.
Yoga for High Blood Pressure: 3 Stress-Relief Methods
Yoga has an exceptionally positive influence on blood pressure because it reduces stress response due to an increased self-regulation.
Yoga Enhances Brain Functions
Modern research in neuroscience shows that physical activity invigorates our muscles and changes our brain chemistry. Yoga shows promising effects on mood, attention, and memory. All brains regardless of age are capable of being ‘plastic’.
Yoga for Osteoporosis – How to Adapt Your Yoga Practice
Yoga is one of the best ways to help prevent fractures. Body awareness and being humble enough to avoid doing some yoga poses and to adapt others can help improve the quality of life. It is not a one-yoga fits all style.
7 Crystals for Setting and Achieving Your Goals
Crystals can have many benefits when it comes to setting goals and working towards achieving our dreams.
Seven Varieties of Agate and Their Healing Properties
Agates are a group of common crystals that possess a wide range of healing and other beneficial properties.
Yoga Nidra: The State Where the Gods Reside
Yoga Nidra is a powerful methodical technique that can bring you a far-reaching physical, emotional, and mental relaxation. You may look asleep, but your consciousness is working at a deeper level of awareness than usual. With a regular practice, you work from within to reshape your destiny.
Seven Healing Crystals for Plants and Gardens
Many people are familiar with using crystals in personal healing but may not know that they can also greatly benefit plants and nature.
How to Use Sound Healing for Global Change
The Power of sound to heal and transform, boost well-being, enhance individual and global consciousness, and bring balance and harmony to our daily life.
How to Heal With Sound Healing and Music Therapy
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
How to Awake the Manipura Chakra?
Manipura chakra can be awakened through various methods. As per yogic texts, Manipura is in direct relation to your eyes. This means the awakening in this chakra causes the stimulation in Ajna as well.
3 Techniques to Relax in the Corpse Pose or Savasana
Yogic relaxation has many benefits but also a caution.
How to Awake the Ajna Chakra?
The practice starts with the cleansing technique (Shatkriya) known as Trataka. This is an effective aid in awakening the Ajna. It is also called ‘maintaining the fixed look at one point’.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Why It's Vital for Your Health
“This is getting on my nerves”, “I have a gut feeling”, it’s my intuition”—sound familiar? Anyone reading this can relate. These terms that all of us have uttered many times in our lives can be associated to a little-known phenomenon called the vagus nerve.