Why Do Yoga

The Suburban Redux owes it existence to the Lavender Haze, its spiritual sister studio from the city. As the owners of the Lavender Hazes get married and heads to the suburbs, they adapt the Lavender Haze in this new environment. This essentially means adding a New Age element to it and tossing out the cute stuff animals and Buddhas. There will still be the same lavender walls, ceilings and floors, but in place of the stuffed animals, you will find lavender crystals. The furry stuffed Buddha...Read Full Story

The Name Brand studio is the spiritual home of the Yoga Star. These are temple like environments that will have posters and sayings of the Yoga Star on the walls along with their overpriced classes. Though the size and interior style of this Yoga studio are not all that impressive or memorable, they nonetheless shine in the large and professionally designed area housing their Yoga shop. There you will find postcards, framed pictures, CDs, DVDs, books about or written by the Yoga Star. In...Read Full Story

The MeditationYoga clock does nothing but sits there and just is. With the perennial message of, "Be here now", it is designed to gentle remind you of what you are suppose to be doing during your meditation session instead of thinking how long you have been sitting there. As the MeditationYoga Clock has no moving parts, it is guaranteed for several lifetimes.Read Full Story

The MeditationYoga clock does nothing but sits there and just is. With the perennial message of, “Be here now”, it is designed to gentle remind you of what you are suppose to be doing during your meditation session instead of thinking how long you have been sitting there. As the MeditationYoga Clock has no moving parts, it is guaranteed for several lifetimes.Read Full Story

Fitness is in the air, learn the latest free fitness tips and technqiues to help you keep in shape. How you can remove stress through simple and easy workouts . Find the best fitness routines for your body type. Ways to always keep your workouts fun and motivating, plus free fitness techniques to help keep your whole family in shape. Including chidlren of all ages. To learn more fitness techniques click here.Read Full Story

Breathing Space: Twelve Lessons for the Modern Woman by Katrina Repka and Alan Finger Book Review: A Yogis, relaxation experts and Buddhists all extol the virtues of breath for stress relief and claim breath work unlocks health-compromising stress patterns. I've never been able to experience the power of breath, as they say. I take a few breaths and then do feel calmer, sometimes even more centered but to make a daily habit of breathing deeply never appealed to me. Quite frequently, I forget...Read Full Story

Some ideas for when you’re having one of those days… Instead of trying to feel 100% better, aim for just a little bit better. Sometimes setting a small, achievable goal is the best way to get motivated. It’s hard to go from 0 to 60 without any warm up, so aim for 0 to 5, to 10, to 15, etc… Before you know it, you’re where you want to be. From Everything yoga : So when you're feeling icky, bad, like dog excrement, sick, bummed, whatever, rely on a little pick-me-up yoga:    1. Ask yourself...Read Full Story

This is my first yoga mat so I can't compare them to anything, but I did find it to be a little thin even though it is one of the thicker mats out there. I do my yoga on a wood floor and with the mat it is still very hard and not that comfortable. I can deal with it though. It is nice and long so i can stretch out head to toe, but the width is sort of thin too. Not very wide, so if I lay on my side with my knees at a 90 degree angle they go off the mat. They are very sticky so that is nice...Read Full Story

Yoga has been around in one form or another for quite a while (more than 2500 years), and this comes as no surprise to me. I started yoga around two years ago, and the benefits are substantial. This website has a large list of all the benefits; to name a few that stand out to me, for your convenience: Stronger heart, lungs, body, and brain. Increased coordination, energy levels, and immunity to diseases Improved concentration, memory, and overall well-being Decreased stress, hostility, and...Read Full Story

The beauty of Yoga is in its versatility, allowing practitioners to focus on the physical, psychological or spiritual, or a combination of all three. Spiritual People often are affected by the ideologies of society. Many people of society think a spiritual person is crazy, weird, or abnormal. Spirituality, however, is a strong underlying theme to most practices. Meditation can do the same for you and more. Meditation has countless benefits for the health of your body and mind. Meditation...Read Full Story