Tag: Yoga Features | Natural Awakenings Atlanta

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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Consider the Seasons: Should Summer's Heat Affect Your Yoga Practice?

Jun 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patty Schmidt, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Finally, the change in seasonal conditions invites practitioners to lean into the diversity of yogic traditions. Lesser-known and less-commonly practiced yoga postures and breathing practices offer many strategies to meet personal needs for cooling and grounding.

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Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga

May 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Prenatal yoga teachers describe their classes in a much simpler fashion: putting the pregnant woman front and center. In practice, it includes any yoga practice that welcomes the pregnant body; the specific yogic techniques vary widely.

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Pranayama: An Addendum

Apr 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Staff

Over the last three months, this magazine has published a three-part series on pranayama, and we consider it our most important content pertaining to conscious evolution.

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