The Ohana Blog

The season of gratitude and joy has officially made its swift entry. As we all know very well, this is the season of giving… But how do we do that when we feel so exhausted and depleted? Our gentle yoga flow for heart-opening is a good start! It’s a phenomenon of our society that we…

Recently, Ohana announced their second 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, beginning in late January 2019. When the news broke, I couldn’t help but think back to when they announced their first YTT program. I was fresh off of a win for most classes taken during their “Love Yourself” challenge month, and so, as an active member…

For the last three weeks, we’ve been talking mindfulness. We’ve discussed the basics, an introduction to meditation, and a strategy to dig in to the practice. This week, we ask some deep questions. What is the state of mindfulness? What actually changes when we’re “being mindful” versus being our normal, daily selves? And why does mindfulness…

At this point in our mindfulness blog series, we’ve certainly acknowledged what a busy world we live in, and how mindfulness practices such as meditation can help us find balance and ease the stress we feel in our everyday lives. In this week’s post, we’ll discuss another potential method to cultivate equilibrium, slow down, and…

The Need for Meditation We are living in the busiest time that humanity has ever known. Distractions are at every turn, whether they be from people around us or electronic devices. We often don’t realize it, but our attention is constantly competed for, by everything from billboard signs to TV ads to our children. Our…

It’s funny how once a word becomes a buzzword, its definition can start to muddle. Mindfulness is absolutely one of those words. By now, we’ve heard the word so many times that it’s almost natural to start tuning it out. Not because we are opposed to mindfulness, but because it’s vagueness gets a bit exhausting.…