Butternut Squash Soup
This soup is a flavorful winter soup made without milk. Easy and quick to make, it’s also colorful and rich without being heavy. Consisting of only vegetables and spices it is truly a healthy “comfort food”. Both the ginger and the coriander in the soup improve digestion and absorption as well as [...]
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Thinking and Thoughts “Disconnecting from the Drama”
Thoughts and thinking are such an intrinsic and dominating aspect of our experience, we seldom stop to consider their influence in our lives. We’re thinking nearly all the time reliving or recasting what has happened in the past; planning or projecting out into the future; or [...]
I would first like to start this article by defining a simple difference between Bulimia and Anorexia in addition to explaining some of the side affects of these two devastating eating disorders.
Anorexia, strictly defined, is the restriction of food, bringing one’s weight to at least 15 percent below what is considered “normal” [...]
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Is Meditation the Push-Up for the Brain? Study Shows Practice May Have Potential to Change Brain’s Physical Structure
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2011) — Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control [...]
Continue Reading →Physiological Benefits of Yoga
▪ Respiratory rate decreases
▪ Pulse rate decreases
▪ Stable autonomic nervous system equilibrium
▪ Blood Pressure decreases (of special significance for hyporeactors)
▪ Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) increases:
Skin conductance, also known as galvanic skin response (GSR), electrodermal response (EDR), psychogalvanic reflex (PGR), skin [...]
This is the formula for the green drink we have been serving after some of the weekend classes here at the Shala. Please feel free to post your own variations!
2 Lemons
2 apples
2 bunches of cilantro
2 cucumbers
2 stalks of celery
2 bunches of kale… Enjoy!
Tight Muscles, Your Diet and Yoga by Dennis Dean
One of the most common questions (in regards to the body) I hear after being an educator for the last 31 years is this, “Can you help me open my hips?” The hips are one of the first places that people feel tightness or lack of [...]
Continue Reading →Yoga and Myofascial Release have taken the world by storm and for many good reasons. But first, what is Myofascial Release?
Myofascial release, often referred to as MFR, is a specialized stretching technique used to release tension and realign the body. The word myofascia is derived from the Latin word “myo,” meaning muscle, and “fascia,” [...]
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