Each week we scour the interwebs to bring you amazing yoga articles, insights and stories that we hope will illuminate the power of yoga, the ways in which it can heal and soothe and the ways in which it can make us laugh, smile and learn much more about ourselves than we ever expected. This week’s links we think you’ll love are all about how Yoga can help you come to certain realizations. Whether it’s realizing when to say enough is enough or if it’s realizing that, hey, maybe I don’t need that aspirin for my headache, hitting the mat might work instead or if it’s realizing that we’ve only got one life to live and instead of focusing on what we don’t have, we need to focus more on what we do have.
Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Mat - ”This is my one life and boy is it a beautiful one. I may not have the renovated kitchen, the gaggle of children, the Pulitzer Prize winning book, the most fashionable shoe collection, or even the perfect handstand, but what I do have—my family, my work, my practice, my health, my home, my dreams, my personal history (even the hard stuff)— makes me the human being I am; the yogi I am; the writer I am; the mother I have become.”
We Are All One: When In Doubt Connect with Your Mat - ‎”Sure, those sneaky human feelings get in the way sometimes – anger, fear, inadequacy, jealousy – but, more and more, the knowingness gently nudges them away to be replaced with letting go and letting things flow. This, of course, is immensely helped by my yoga practice on the mat.
Yoga For Runners - ”What I was surprised to find was how integral yoga was to these runners’ routines. They told me that running alone was a linear activity and that by adding yoga warm-ups and warm-downs my exercise would become circular…”
Fear and Safety -Â Towards the end of the practice, they directed everyone to come into a rather advanced pose. About 95% of the class struggled (some did it effortlessly) to get into and maintain the pose. I remained in Child’s Pose on my mat. My inner yoga showoff exclaimed — “You can do this pose, so why the heck aren’t you? Don’t just sit there in wimpy ole Child’s Pose — do what everyone else is doing!” I’m happy to say that I didn’t listen.
Yoga for Headaches: Easing the Pain Naturally -Â Mild, occasional tension headaches are all-too-common among most of us; rather than reach for the ibuprofen or aspirin, it might be worthwhile to try yoga as an alternative.
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