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Love and Yoga: Three Atlanta Couples on Running a Studio Together

Feb 01, 2023 06:00AM ● By Diane Eaton

Both trained in the Prajna yoga lineage, they wanted to offer practices steeped in the wisdom of yoga and the teachings of the Buddha. They opened their doors a year later, in November 2009.

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Svadhyaya: Questions for Yogic Self-Study

Jan 01, 2023 06:00AM ● By Graham Fowler

Svadhyaya is a multilayered practice that has implications for every aspect of life, from gross to subtle to subtlest. Innocent curiosity can lead to insights and new choices about how you want to meet the world.

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Yoga as Self-Care

Dec 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

Self-care is the intentional, planned set of actions one takes to promote and enhance physical, mental and emotional well-being. It is a multidimensional approach, embracing strategies that target healthy functioning in multiple areas to promote optimal health.

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Yoga and Gratitude

Nov 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

The goal of yoga is to calm the mind, and incorporating affirmative, optimistic thoughts such as thoughts of gratitude, helps quiet undesirable mental chatter, which in turn provides greater clarity and allows us to be more present.

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Eight Spokes of the Wheel: Moving Forward on the Yoga Journey

Oct 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

If they’re asked what types of yoga there are in the world, most yoga practitioners in the West will likely mention vinyasa flow, yin, restorative, power, hot sequence, Ashtanga, and others.

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Atlanta’s Yoga Scene Bounces Back

Sep 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

The road to post-pandemic recovery has not been easy, but yoga studios are experiencing a slow but steady return to normalcy. We talked to several local yoga leaders about their journey of reemergence from the pandemic shutdown.

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Yoga Outliers: Three Yoga Studios With Unique Twists

Sep 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Diane Eaton

While it is nowhere near as well known as Hatha, Ashtanga, Kundalini and the many other types of yoga that originated in India, the roots of Kemetic yoga date back even earlier than its Indian counterparts, according to research, and it did so in Egypt, then known as “Kemet,” in Central Africa.

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YOGA IS A JOURNEY: Personal Stories of The Path

Sep 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

Whether one is a first-time participant or a veteran practitioner, yoga is a journey that often takes the student from a physical practice, through a breath-centered practiced, to a heart-centered practice eventually that becomes a way of life.

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Yoga for Emotional Competence

Aug 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

People with emotional competence can distinguish between reacting to present situations and being triggered by past events. They are aware that acknowledging and satisfying emotional needs, rather than stifling them, leads to enhanced well-being.

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Defying Gravity with Aerial Yoga

Jul 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

One of the most popular bookings on yoga class reservation apps these days is aerial yoga. This unique practice combines traditional yoga poses and philosophy with aerial arts techniques. Practitioners use fabric, hung from above, to find their way into various shapes.

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Super-Agers and Yoga

May 02, 2022 06:00AM

Magnetic-resonance imaging of this group consistently shows that super-agers exhibit slower loss of brain volume than their peers, providing them with better protection against dementia.

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Yoga Poses to Balance the Chakra System

Apr 01, 2022 06:00AM ● By Mila Burgess

The chakra system is an ancient map of energy flow in the body. In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel.”

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