What’s sound healing?
Did you know that you can bring greater balance and harmony to body and mind simply through listening? In Nada Yoga, sound vibrations become the vehicle to deeper states of stillness and connection with the present moment.
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What's a Body Scan?
No, I’m not talking EEG, MRI, or any other kind of medical machinery. I’m talking about a mindfulness technique that cultivates relaxation and balance within the body/mind relationship. The best…
What is Float Therapy?
We have five primary senses: sight, sound, taste, feel, and smell. Each of these senses is experienced viscerally, through the physical body. As far as most of us can remember,…
Drop Into Presence
Our minds have the ability to travel through the past, present, and future, a remarkable tool when consciously employed. When left untamed, the mind can become a chaotic distraction that…
Changing with the seasons
As the leaves fall away from the trees, so too does the fiery passion and enthusiasm of summer. The flower’s reach has come to a climax and slowly returns to…
The Art of Relaxation and Conscious Sleep
Yoga nidra, meaning yogic sleep, is a practice of systematically peeling back the various layers of consciousness in order to bring awareness and balance to the conscious, subconscious, and normally…
Pratyahara and Sensory Deprivation
In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes the 8 limbs of yoga, the steps of the yogic path. The 5th limb is pratyahara, meaning withdrawal of the senses. This is the…
