Balanced Body

12/20/2024

Yoga has been shown to provide both physical and functional benefits as well as ease symptoms of chronic and internal disease.​​​​​​​​​
🌟77% report being physically stronger.
🌟82% of patients surveyed with chronic inflammation reduced inflammation by nearly 50% after just 6 weeks daily yoga.
🌟47% of patients surveyed with progressive heart disease, stopped further progression completely after one year of regular yoga practice.
🌟37% of people who drank excessively and/or smoked ci******es credit yoga with encouraging them to stop.
🌟74% of arthritic adults used regular yoga practice to dramatically reduce pain and stiffness and increase mobility, according to a 2018 UK study.
12 months of regular yoga can decrease total cholesterol by 23% and 26% of the LDL “bad” cholesterol.
🌟Over 80% of yoga practitioners with prior back pain reported significant relief of symptoms.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23876562/
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06/14/2023

Despite All Of Our Accomplishments... ❤️️

► https://herbshealthhappiness.com/despite-all-of-our-accomplishments-we-owe-our-existence-to-a-six-inch-layer-topsoil/

Something to remember always! 🌧️🌲☀️

02/03/2023

Wishing Groundhog Day was massage day!

02/02/2023

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🕯Vairāgya🕯

Please let go of the idea that there is a “right way” to practice. Please let go of the belief that there are bodies who “do” yoga better than other bodies. Please let go of the notion that your practice is an outward performance. Please let go of the tendency to make of these teachings another toxic tool of consumerism. Please let go of the metric of linear progress, mastery, or the struggle to “get” somewhere. And, please let go of transmitting any of these myths to others.

Yoga is not a thing we do, but a process and state of becoming-unbecoming, wherein Every. Body. is honored. Your life, as it is, is your entry point. Let go of gripping, grasping, grabbing, forcing, and trying to get somewhere (as though you aren’t somewhere). Less struggle, more grace. I often ask students, “who are you insisting on being at the expense of who you are really?” Relinquish that which distorts or diminishes the world.
From Root:

04/10/2022

Neurologist Rebecca Saxe presented the most beautiful “photo” of the year. It's the image of a MRI captured when a mother kisses her two-month-old son. Lips placed on the toddler's head immediately cause a reaction in his brain. Dopamine is released, which gives the feeling of well-being, but also oxytocin, baptized as the love hormone, because it is responsible for the affection and attachment. Kissing causes a chemical reaction in the toddler's brain. Reduces fear and increases confidence, provokes feelings of affection and attachment, a sign that the baby understood that he is protected. Vasopresin, the "glue" that connects mothers to babies in their first months of life and serotonin, is also released, which regulates the mood.

09/25/2021

09/16/2021

movement inspired by water

06/08/2021

This Saturday 9:00am join me at the mother spring for gentle heart openers, Community building, inspiration to get your weekend started right. Feel connected.💗🧘‍♀️ 

04/16/2021

The most detailed representation of a human cell to date, obtained by radiography, nuclear magnetic resonance and cryoelectronic microscopy.
~ Valerie DeBourdeilles

03/12/2021

03/11/2021

03/11/2021

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