Tag: Yoga Features | Natural Awakenings Atlanta

Sankalpa: Where Intention and Purpose Meet

Jan 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

January 2025 is upon us, and it’s all about intentions and resolutions.

Hot Yoga: Is There Benefit to a Heated Room?

Dec 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patty Schmidt

Hot yoga became a “thing” in the West in the 1980s. At the time, yoga practices were enjoying an increase in popularity throughout the U.S. due to celebrity support, televised programs and the increased availability of the practice in yoga studios.

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Yoga Nidra: An Introduction to Yogic Sleep

Nov 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

As November brings cooler weather to the Southeast and, for many, an urge to retreat inside, there is no more perfect style of yoga to consider than introspective yoga nidra.

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Move, Create, Integrate: Exploring the Seven Chakras Through Aum’s Women’s Retreats

Oct 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Camille Lueder

Founder and retreat guide, Yuliya Stepanov, aims to provide participants with a deeper experience of their chakras, offering uninterrupted time for growth and healing. Thus, each retreat focuses on one of the seven chakras—from root chakra to crown chakra.

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Health Benefits of Yoga: Resolving Trauma and Other Mind-Body Challenges

Oct 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Carrie Gauthier

The first known reference to yoga is in the Upanishads Sanskrit texts, written 2,500 years ago.

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Special Section: The New Frontiers of Yoga Therapy

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Paul Chen

Baked in yoga’s “eight limbs” and referenced in its ancient texts are references to its benefits and its help in the relief from suffering. Far more recently, and especially here in the United States, yoga therapy has crystallized as a professional field. Our three-story special section explores this emergence of yoga therapy and what it offers.

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Yoga Therapy and Other Healing Arts

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

Yoga therapy often weaves together with other healing arts partly because they are often programmed alongside one another in yoga studios. They also share common roots, such as ancient texts, practices and models of transmission.

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Yoga Therapy in a Western Context

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

As yoga therapy continues to establish itself as a credible part of healthcare in the United States, it is important to examine how it interfaces with Western medical environments.

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Mysore Yoga Atlanta to Celebrate New Studio Opening in Buckhead

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Paul Chen

Mysore Yoga Atlanta (MYA) will celebrate the opening of its new studio in Buckhead on September 8. The event—which includes a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a one-hour Ashtanga class followed by tea and refreshments—is free and will take place from 10 a.m. to noon.

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Taking Yoga Beyond Asana and Meditation

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

For the thousands of years that yoga has been around, practitioners and teachers have noted its therapeutic qualities.

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Rest is Always Available: Restorative Yoga in Metro Atlanta

Aug 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

This month’s article on restorative yoga continues Natural Awakening’s review of popular yoga styles in the Atlanta metro area. Restorative yoga classes are available at almost every major studio in Atlanta.

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Exploring Sun Salutations

Jul 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patty Schmidt

Last month’s yoga article looked at ways to cool down the body during the hot summer months, including trying alternatives to the traditional sun salutations.

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