Posts by Caroline E
Yoga For Athletes: How Increasing Your Awareness Can Unlock Your Athletic Potential
As a former college athlete, my physical body has long been one of my most useful tools; a tool for improving athletic performance, increasing productivity. And a tool for pushing through when I felt like I couldn’t keep doing anymore. Throughout my college years, I felt like I was in a perpetual state of pushing.…
Read MoreEnergy that Moves You: How to Consciously Increase the Flow of Prana in Your Body & Life
Everything is energy. The air we breathe, the thoughts we think, the feelings we emote – while we can’t see it, all of these things possess potent energies that have a huge impact on our health and wellbeing. Whether we are aware of it or not, our bodies are major conduits of energy. Just as…
Read MorePrana & the Power of the Energy Body: Increasing Life-Force Energy For A More Balanced Life
I don’t know about you, but this month tends to be the time of year I like the least. It’s cold, dreary, and there are no upcoming holidays to fuel some level of excitement. It’s usually the seasonal period where we begin feeling a sense of stagnation. The days are shorter and everything feels dense…
Read MoreMy Postpartum Weight Loss Journey: What I Gained From Losing Sixty-Five Pounds Last Year
When I checked into the hospital the weekend my daughter was born, I weighed 212 pounds. I had put on a whopping sixty-two pounds during my 37 weeks of pregnancy. Sure, some of it would come off naturally as my postpartum body slowly started to heal itself, but the rest? I was stuck with it.…
Read More20-Minute Morning Yoga Routine for Self-Care and Stability
We’re all feeling it – there’s a heaviness in the air all around us, one that has seemed to linger for far too long this year. The weight of it all is intense. There is so much unknown, so many things shifting on what seems like a daily basis. It feels impossible to keep up,…
Read MorePostpartum Stretches to Support Your Post-Baby Body & Mind
A New Normal Postpartum. It’s a word I had a vague idea about before having my first baby. I knew I’d be tired, sore, maybe even a little delirious in the following weeks. But what I didn’t know was how woefully unprepared I was when it came to understanding my body’s new chemistry. The intense…
Read MoreYoga For Runners: Preparing the Body For an Active Life
For many of us, yoga is how we care for and nurture our spirit; it is how we find peace, calm, and clarity amidst the winds of change and uncertainty swirling all around us. Asana – the physical limb of yoga we are most familiar with – is also a profound way of caring for…
Read MoreLess Stress, More Meditation – How Doing Less Can Inspire More
This last year has been quite a year – a year of reckoning, a year of novelty, and a year of unrelenting change. But above all, it has been a year of uncertainty – particularly for those operating in the business world, this year has seemed like one continuous fire drill of constant pivots and…
Read MoreChakras 101: Everything You Need to Know to Harness the Power of the Seven Chakras
From our yoga practice, we are all intimately familiar with our physical bodies and how they function and perform on a daily basis. In modern society, it has almost become an obsession. We have become so narrowly focused on the physicality of our bodies – how we eat, how we move, how we sleep –…
Read MoreThe Subtle Benefits of Yoga: Reaching Beyond the Physical Practice to Find Bliss
Yoga: a word that for some invokes images of affluent Westerners hurrying off to chic studios after a long day of work. For others, perhaps it conjures ideas of spiritual gurus bowing in ritualistic gratitude to the sun every morning. While these conceptions of yoga aren’t necessarily wrong, they are at best incomplete. Yoga is…
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