Can Yoga and Meditation Help Pain?

Can Yoga and Meditation Help Pain?

As I have discussed in previous posts, meditation has many positive effects and no negative side effects. It’s amazing that most of us aren’t taught from an early how to meditate or at least to be mindful. Of course, I look at my own children and know...
Energy: How to Expand and Reduce

Energy: How to Expand and Reduce

Energy is the ability to do work. Most of us talk about our energy level–we’re jazzed, tired, fired up, lethargic. What we eat, what we do, how we sleep and think affect our energy level and our ability to do work.In a yoga practice, we look at the result...

Tapas: Heat Generated by Discipline

Continuing our discussion with the 2nd limb of Patanjali’s ashtanga yoga, the 3rd niyama, tapas, which literally translates to discipline from the sanskrit root tap or heat, is the niyama most of my college students connect with. When they first read...

Santosha: Contentment

Today, let’s explore the 2nd niyama from Patanjali’s 2nd limb of ashtanga yoga, santosha or contentment.Happiest with some sweet treat in each hand as a child, I wonder how much I’ve changed in my search for joy and fulfillment. What...