All posts by Jessie Wren
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25-Minute Bedtime Yoga Sequence for Better Sleep (Photo Tutorial)
Follow this simple bedtime yoga sequence to slow down the body, the mind, and help you get a better night’s sleep. Tomorrow morning, you'll be glad you did!
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What Is Yin Yoga and What Are the Most Common Benefits?
What is Yin Yoga? Yin targets the deep connective tissues, bones, joints, and fascia in the body to offer countless Yin Yoga benefits.
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Try This Spooky Yoga Flow to Get In the Halloween Spirit
Halloween is all about costumes, candy, and spooky fun. Get into the holiday spirit with this creative and spooky Halloween Yoga Flow!
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Avoid Back Pain! Practice These 5 Yoga Poses For a Strong and Healthy Spine
A healthy spine helps prevent injury and back pain. Learn which yoga poses you can practice for a strong and healthy spine.
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Practice These 5 Yoga Poses to Avoid Knee Pain and Prevent Injury
There are ligaments within the knee that can tear with too much rotation, and cause knee pain. These 5 yoga poses will help protect your knee joints.
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Owls, Hawks and Butterflies – Oh My! Here Are 8 Common Spirit Animals and Their Symbolism
Spirit animals are guides that can help you on your journey. Learn about common spirit animals, their meaning, and what they symbolize when you see them.
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The Psoas Defined, Explained, and Explored in 6 Yoga Poses
The slightly mystical psoas major muscle is often overlooked or even unknown when we talk about our muscular anatomy.
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So Trump is President . . . Now What?!
This election is nothing but a conclusion of America’s projected consciousness. Half of America is enraged, sad, hopeless and...
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A Yogic View of This Year’s Election
As yogis and spiritual beings, this is no time to sit on the side lines. Now more than...
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8 Reasons Every Yoga Teacher Should Get Their 500-Hour Certification
Whether you want to deepen your knowledge as a teacher, or simply find growth in a painful time, yoga teacher trainings are not just for you as a teacher; they are for you as a student and as a person too.
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Summer Reading List for the Yoga Soul
We love those classic yoga reads, but sometimes we just want to mix it up and find new, enticing authors and books we haven’t gotten a chance to discover...
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OM: The Meaning Behind the Sacred Chant + 6 Surprising Benefits
Om is said to be the totality of all planes macro and micro, and is the oldest mantra or sound in existence.
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You May Be Hurting Your Neck in Shoulderstand (Here’s How to Fix It)
Practicing shoulderstand calms the nervous system, decreases varicose veins, stimulates the throat chakra (aiding in clear communication), reduces wrinkles and aids in restful sleep.
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Learn Yoga Anatomy: 5 Yoga Poses to Prep For Inversions
For those of you who want to advance your inversion and backbend practice, knowing how the shoulder girdle works is pivotal (pun intended).
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If You Want to Be Happy, Science Says You Should Start Here
When you focus enough attention, motivation and words on a particular goal, you are actively working to make your dream a reality.
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6 Yoga Poses To Help You Learn Arm Balances
Below are 6 yoga poses you can practice to build your body up to Bakasana (the sixth pose of this article) and play around with shoulder engagement and transferring your weight forward.
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7 Ways You Can Bring More Self-Love Into Your Life for Peace, Contentment and Joy
What is self-love, really? And how can we practice more of it in our daily lives? Here are 7 self-love practices for more compassion & joy.
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How to Remove “Quit” From Your Vocabulary & Your Life
Quitting is a defeating experience that leaves you feeling like the world is against you. Surrendering is relinquishing the false notion of the ego’s power and trusting the true power of the Universe. Sometimes it takes greater strength to let go. Accept the answer you get from the Universe and just breathe.
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When You Judge Others, You’re Actually Judging Yourself
Judging others to make ourselves feel better about our current state or current situation, when really those judgements are insecurities in ourselves.
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6 Common Questions Yoga Students Have but Are Too Afraid to Ask
Here are six answers to common questions yoga students are secretly wondering - humbly offered from a yoga instructor.
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Let Go of the Mouse – How to Handle Negative Self-Chatter
This negative self-chatter is like thousands of little creatures that snake their ways into our brains: the fear-based thoughts that arise, the self-defeating stories that we tell ourselves and attach to. When we search for something new - a job, place to live, a significant other - and it doesn’t work out, we feel like Scott did in his kitchen staring at an empty mousetrap with no cheese.
