Yoga Therapy Los Angeles

02/29/2020

it's okay to have a good cry once in a while! the 8th benefit listed is improved vision - who knew? I resonate with the "release" benefit.

Crying is a natural and often uncontrollable reaction we have to sadness, grief, joy, and pain. Is crying good for your health? Find out.

02/28/2020

02/18/2020

breathing is what it’s all about. brings you closer to prana -your own life force.

Pranayama techniques and breathing ratios should be done while nurturing smooth and comfortable breathing with awareness.

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01/23/2020

Antar Mouna is a very powerful form of meditation. It is fascinating. Like a deep dive into the mind. This article is saying you need to be taught by a teacher, but I believe the regular meditator can do this. There is a guided Antar Mouna meditation on YouTube.

by Krishna Prakash Antar Mouna is a clear set of six stages to allow us to enter deep meditation and beyond. It was brought out by the wonderful living tradition of the Bihar School of Yoga. This a…

01/15/2020

“i just care how real you are...”

"I don’t care how spiritual you are. How long you can melt in the sweat lodge. How many pe**te journeys that have blown your mind, or how well you can hold crow pose. Honestly. I don’t. I don’t care what planets fall in what houses on your birth chart, how many crystals you have or how vegan your diet is.

I want to know how human you are. Can you sit at the feet of the dying despite the discomfort? Can you be with your grief, or mine, without trying to advise, fix or maintain it? I want to know that you can show up at the table no matter how shiny, chakra- aligned or complete you are- or not. Can you hold loving space for your beloved in the depths of your own healing without trying to be big?

It doesn’t flatter me how many online healing trainings you have, that you live in the desert or in a log cabin, or that you’ve mastered the art of ta**ra.

What turns me on is busy hands. Planting roots. That despite how tired you are, you make that phone call, you board that plane, you love your children, you feed your family.

I have no interest in how well you can ascend to 5D, astral travel or have out of body s*x. I want to see how beautifully you integrate into ordinary reality with your unique magic, how you find beauty and gratitude in what’s surrounding you, and how present you can be in your relationships.

I want to know that you can show up and do the hard and holy things on this gorgeously messy Earth. I want to see that you can be sincere, grounded and compassionate as equally as you are empowered, fiery and magnetic. I want to know that even during your achievements, you can step back and be humble enough to still be a student.

What’s beautiful and s*xy and authentic is how well you can continue to celebrate others no matter how advanced you’ve become. What’s truly flattering is how much you can give despite how full you’ve made yourself. What’s honestly valuable is how fu***ng better of a human you can be, in a world that is high off of spiritual materialism and jumping the next escape goat for “freedom.”

At the end of the day I don’t care how brave you are. How productive, how popular, how enlightened you are. At the end of the day, I want to know that you were kind. That you were real. I want to know that you can step down from the pedestal from time to time to kiss the earth and let your hair get dirty and your feet get muddy, and join the dance with us all."

-A modern day call to shifting from spiritual consumerism to returning to human kind... heart inspired by Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s, The Invitation."

by Taylor Rose Godfrey

01/13/2020

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees,” William Blake. Painting: Rebecca Hey

10/30/2019

Breathing deeply,” Katie Brindle writes in her new book Yang Sheng: The Art of Chinese Self-Healing, “immediately relaxes the body because it stimulates the vagus nerve, which runs from the neck to the abdomen and is in charge of turning off the ‘fight or flight’ reflex.”

“Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why?

07/28/2019

Here are the top five regrets of the dying, according to Bronnie Ware:

• I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me
• I wish I hadn't worked so hard
• I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings
• I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
• I wish that I had let myself be happier, feel more joy

"All of our regrets come from a lack of courage."

05/12/2019

We have ordinary mind, but we have another part of our consciousness that is beyond this. By chanting, we are invoking this place within us.

04/05/2019

Hyper mobile people are often attracted to yoga because they are already flexible and it’s “easy” for them. Be aware of when your joints are in overextension and bring them
back within range - this is often not “easy” at all for hyper mobile folks.

Plus, five smart ways to stabilize your muscles so you stay safe