Mindbodywheel

06/08/2020

The game of TOEGA. Yoga for the toes....yes, yoga begins with the feet. Helping with concentration , balance and fine motor skills....its yogi play! Place soft pom pom balls (equal amount distributed) on a flat surface (yoga mat, wooden floor etc) and carry with toes in any way possible with the feet, aiming to place on a flat area ( a piece of felt, another yoga mat, tapped down piece of paper etc. Kids love it!

For older children try marbles and perhaps make it a race to distribute each and every one with a the object being to have the most amount of marbles at the end goal to win. Namaste!

04/13/2020

Bird of Paradise. SVARGA DVIJASANA. A beautiful yoga posture that mimics the hatching of a bird. The pose (asana) represents renewal and strength. Surely there is no better time to maintain our strength. 2020 - a year of twists and turns, binds and imbalance.
I will be "playing yogi" on my website, mindbodywheel.com, or my instagram page -mindbodywheel -all things yoga, meditation and reiki- for all ages and abilities.
Suggest a pose, work within the "gesture of" the posture and most of all have fun...its just yoga! A practice never a perfection

04/01/2020

How does distant Reiki work? Reiki is natural healing energy that works on every level, not just the physical level and this is where we have trouble understanding how a Reiki distance session works.

02/18/2020

A beautiful meditation with LOVE is our intention

In this meditation, yoga teacher Alex Artymiak invites us to wiggle out tension from the body in order to deepen the breath and cultivate loving energy. Following this simple solo exercise, Artymiak explains how you can extend this practice to a friend or a partner by connecting to the rhythm of eac...

12/23/2019

This is the first controlled study that shows chair yoga to be more effective at arthritic pain relief than health education programs or pharmacology.

05/05/2019

Stop being so busy, and just do nothing. Trust us.

05/01/2019

In the middle of a prescription painkiller overdose crisis in the United States, a San Diego VA study finds that veterans with chronic pain would be well-served to put down the pills and pick up a yoga mat.

04/22/2019

Much to the country, there is no "advanced" meditators. There are people who practice and their are people who do not. Each time we take a seat, we experience ourselves, we "go home"/ The experience of being receptive or being reactive to our emotions is within each moment. Meditation is a practice that is never "perfected".