Reason number four to do yoga is it improves digestion! Gentle yoga soothes and stretches the internal body. It can ease constipation, reduce water retention and create space in the body for comfortable digestion. If you suffer from digestion problems, it is best to start your yoga practice gently and avoid inversions in the beginning.… Continue reading Yoga Improves Digestion
Category: health
Yoga Improves Circulation
Our third reason (of fifty) to do yoga this year is to help improve your circulation. Hands and feet always cold? Feel weak and lethargic? Foggy brained? When oxygen is not reaching the extremities of the body, they become cold and sometimes even numb! When fresh oxygen is not reaching the brain, and toxins hang… Continue reading Yoga Improves Circulation
50 Reasons To Do Yoga
Although yoga is famous for it's physical benefits and fitness trends, it is also respected as an ancient (healing) art to assist one in attaining enlightenment. Below I have listed 50 reasons why you should try yoga, I'm sure you will find at least one reason worth trying it for! Improves organ function Improves breathing… Continue reading 50 Reasons To Do Yoga
Guru Heart Yoga
This summer passed without me realizing that I have been a certified yoga instructor for 10 years. In June 2004 I received my 200-hour, Yoga Alliance approved, Yoga Teacher Certification.A decade is a pretty significant amount of time to commit to anything, so it feels like an honour to share this landmark.My first year of… Continue reading Guru Heart Yoga
The Yoga Gap
Over the last few weeks I've had about 100 students pass through my teaching... and I'm seeing a common thread of feedback. What I have learned is The Gentle Way Of Hatha is a much more uncommon style of yoga then I would have guessed. The yoga market is becoming saturated anywhere you go, but… Continue reading The Yoga Gap
Embracing All Seasons
When you live in Canada you are blessed with four seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. Each of these seasons hold their own magic. Their own symbolism. Winter is symbolic of death, spring is rebirth, summer is growth and autumn is harvest. Unlike many of my friends and family, winter is my favorite season. For me… Continue reading Embracing All Seasons
Creating Space
The cycles in my life always bring me back to this need to create space. Creative space. Breathing space. Personal space. As a mother who also works with kids and runs my own yoga business, there leaves little room for me. I spend most of my time and energy thinking about others, and how best… Continue reading Creating Space
Yoga Teachers In Northumberland
Four more teachers graduated from 'The Gentle Way Of Hatha' yoga teacher training on Sunday, October 6th, 2013. If you are looking for a gentle yoga class in the Northumberland area of Ontario, Canada, watch for these names in your town: Joanne Cherry-Lauzon will be teaching classes in the Cold Springs area. Joanne brings a… Continue reading Yoga Teachers In Northumberland
Living Yoga
Once in awhile I forget I'm living yoga... I'm just so in it I forget what it even is, and what it can do, and that not everyone lives this life-style or understands it's cycles. As classes have been growing, and I'm teaching more, and I'm adding new pieces to our daily routines, I find… Continue reading Living Yoga
Chaos
Creation, preservation, destruction. These are the three gunas that represent the cycles of life, and the universe. In sanskrit they are called sattva, rajas and tamas. One thing I love about yoga, and specifically the philosophies, is the lesson of letting go. Not judging, not clinging, and having an ability to go with the flow;… Continue reading Chaos
The Gentle Way of Hatha 