Alicia Cuglietta Yoga

08/21/2025

08/09/2025

Pursue yourself.

08/02/2025

Yoga Therapy is a Powerful Path to Wellbeing and Therapeutic Care ❤️

Attitudes are changing: a new global report reveals that yoga is a powerful path to wellbeing and therapeutic care not just exercise. This is something that we at the Minded Institute have witnessed for years: a major global shift in how yoga is understood - and used.

Yoga is no longer seen as just a series of postures. It’s increasingly recognised as a comprehensive wellbeing practice, one that includes breathing techniques, meditation, and lifestyle integration, with tangible benefits for both mental and physical health.

People are turning to yoga not for performance, but for support:
🧠 to manage anxiety and burnout
🫁 to regulate the nervous system
💓 to prevent and ease conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and chronic stress
🧘‍♀ and to cultivate clarity, presence, and emotional resilience.

📈 The EMR report projects sustained global growth through 2034, fuelled by rising demand for preventative, integrative approaches to health.

With growing recognition of yoga’s full therapeutic scope, this is a pivotal moment for yoga therapy—unleashing long-awaited momentum.

This is a landmark moment for yoga therapy, a field The Minded Institute has helped shape by combining traditional yogic knowledge with scientific rigour to support mental health, chronic conditions, and whole-person care.

Yoga is no longer being treated as something supplementary.
It’s being recognised for what it truly is: essential.

07/31/2025

We can all joke about our anxiety levels because let’s face it, a little levity helps us through the hard stuff.

Anxiety is an ever-growing problem for many, including those with pelvic floor issues. In fact, having pelvic floor issues can cause anxiety, and anxiety can cause pelvic floor issues. The good news is that anxiety is a condition that can be overcome.

Anxiety is the result of an amped up nervous system, and the longer we experience the symptoms, the deeper they dig in. Practices to remind the nervous system that there is another response are critical to overcoming anxiety. How we breathe directly affects our nervous system.

A good place to start is with a particular exhale, which is out through pursed lips as if you were blowing through a straw. The yoga/pranayama name for it is Kaki (bird’s beak breath), and here in the west it’s often called straw breath. Taking an inhale through the nose, exhale through pursed lips -long, soft and slow, lengthening out the exhale. It should be done, slowly, gently, patiently, and with a barely audible sound. This lengthening of the exhale initiates the relaxation response. Anytime you find yourself feeling anxious or tense or agitated or even just in a hurry, use this exhalation to help remind your nervous system that there is another response.

07/28/2025

A wonderful Restorative Flow today. Still one of my favorite classes to teach after all these years.

07/17/2025

Self care.

07/04/2025

06/21/2025

Undercarriage is hands-down my favorite name for the nether region. Or is it nether region? 🤔

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02/28/2025

Legs up the wall variations are some of my favorite poses for those experiencing overactive pelvic floor symptoms. However, this wide angled variation as an inner thigh stretch can be too much for a lot of people with overactive pelvic floor because the nervous system basically jumps in and shuts it down. Instead of a nice stretch, it becomes a struggle and can cause more tension instead of less. This yoga strap variation offers my client the support of giving her feet something to relax into so that her inner thigh muscles don’t start gripping against the sensation of the stretch. (The yoga strap is 10’, but 8’ straps work, too.)