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The pace of our modern lives can often feel uncompromising. Time reserved for yourself is either viewed as a luxury or as something stumbled upon by accident, only to be savored in small doses. Society has long demanded that we march to the beat of an eternal drum—through illness, despite heartache, against the waning energy […]
“Find your center.” We hear these words both on and off our yoga mats. But what does it mean? And how can we apply it to our lives? First, we can look to the mind. Our mind is just one of many tools we carry within ourselves, but it has a reputation of pushing us […]
I have taught yoga for 10 years now and have run into the same puzzling phenomenon time and time again. When I tell students during class, “Be selfish right now. Take up as much energetic room in this space as you can.” Their reaction is to look at one another, giggle a little bit, and […]
By: Melissa Hale Winter months are my favorite time of year, but it hasn’t always been so. As we approach the peak of darkness, the Winter Solstice on December 21, there is a natural desire to turn inwards, to become still and to sleep. This is nature’s way of taking pause after a productive spring, […]
By Natalie Russell It is so easy to be wrecked with, rarely do we extend ourselves the conviction that we are a force that can wreck. In moments when we feel intensely, we label ourselves as reckless. We start to fear ourselves. We start to fear feeling. The moment that fear begins to creep in […]
By Emily Keeling & Natalie Russell How did she ultimately survive? She knew she deserved more. Driven, she aggressively pursued the goals of her life. She possessed an understanding of the world and developed self-compassion, but what good was any of that without strength? The ability to stare down adversity and take action. The difference […]
By: Deborah Lukovich People tend to perk up when they talk about their dreams because we have an intuitive sense that there is meaning behind those crazy images. The problem is most people do not gain the powerful insights they could from their dreams because they don’t know how to decode them. This is where […]
She grew up without a mother. A deep void that led her to seek “mother” in almost anyone or anything that comforted. Further forms of loss would trigger her most familiar wound. If you didn’t know her history and all that she had been through, you couldn’t understand the way she responded to pain or […]
By: Melissa Hale To all the adults out there, who are overwhelmed and exhausted by life: Do not forget. Do not forget your true nature. Your simple laugh, your smile, your breath. Do not forget that life is meant for living, laughter, loving, heartache and mistakes. Do not forget you are a child of the […]
By: Emily Keeling & Natalie Russell She could not leisurely stroll through her childhood years. That was the luxury of her peers – of which she was acutely aware. She was a girl with real monsters under her bed. She feared what skeleton she would find if she opened up her closet door or turned […]