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Dharma Mala -Transform Your Life
The Dharma Mala brings you self love, guards against negativity, and wakes your characteristics while grounding you to find your Dharma Path. Taken from the Tiny Devotions BohoDaily Blog: During the creation stages of this mala we had many interviews with David to find out about his own dharma path and have him share his experiences with the community. How did you find yoga? I found yoga as a 21 year old, over weight kid, who had no self esteem. Like many people a good…
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How to Make a Home Meditation Alter
Starting a meditation practice can be the hardest thing you do and the most rewarding as well. Having a special place to sit is important to make your sits have a bit of ritual to them. A home alter can make you excited to sit in front of and making one is the best part. Find something to house your alter/shrine. For me I chose a great old grate I found on a walk down Queen Street West at an antique shop. …
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30 Day Smoothie May 1st to 30th
A letter from Health is Happiness. Hello Smoothie Lovers! I am super excited to share this with everybody. Health is Happiness’s first 30 Day Smoothie Challenge. A smoothie a day for 30 days is the name of the game! The challenge starts May 1st and ends May 30th. Smoothies, particularly green smoothies, were a huge part of my transition to a healthier lifestyle. Believe it or not, when I was younger I didn’t like greens or even most vegetables. Knowing how far I have come…
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Choice, Relationship and Excuses
Sometimes you read something and you have to repost it, share it with everyone you know. Enjoy. Choice, Relationship, and Excuses From The Everything Yoga Blog “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals, it dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” –Anais Nin Relationships make up and fill our lives. We have relationships with friends. We have a relationship to our…
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Ask us anything #fromthegurus
We all have questions to ask our yoga teachers, cross fit trainer, run coaches, barre and pilates instructors…now’s the chance to do it. Ask away! An awesome collaboration with Nicole Breanne Hudson and Lululemon Briar Hill.
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5 Reasons to do a Spring Cleanse
1. You will fit in your jeans a whole lot better. When you go on a cleanse you lose that bloat that we all get so used to. This bloating and gas is caused by food intolerances that we might not even know we have. We just get used to the bloating until it is gone. You start to discover that your clothing fits a whole lot better and you might even stop farting so much. Who doesn’t want that? 2. You will realize…
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5 Ways Yoga Will Help Your Stressed Out Life
A feeling of ease. Shoulders, Neck, Hips and Lower backs oh my. Yoga releases stress in these major store houses by lengthening the muscles and creating gaps between joints and bones. Digest- It stimulates the Parasympathetic nervous system. You sympathetic nervous system is your flight and fight trigger. The Para lets you find some ease by lower blood pressure, helping with digestion and boosts your immune system. Move it or lose it. A little hard sweaty work can get your body concentrating on something other than…
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Feeling overwhelmed use these five yogic attributes to stand tall baby.
Faith- Its the one thing that will get rid of fear and doubt. Energy- Show up no matter what. Gather the warrior strength inside of yourself and face the world. Remembrance- When you cultivate an attitude of mindfulness we are true to our deepest intentions and all the crap falls away. We remember our true self. It helps us come back again and again. Absorption- Practice, practice, practice. It takes time for wisdom, steadiness and commitment to develop, know you are in it for the…
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Great Moments
A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her…
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Power of Movement- Canada’s Largest Yoga Fundraiser
The Arthritis Research Foundation is one of the four foundations at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, with offices at Toronto General Hospital. The foundation raises, manages and invests funds for Arthritis and related Autoimmune Disease research. The event is two fold, it raise money but also bring awareness to this large family of diseases, which affects over 4.6 million Canadians. It all started in 2005 when Dorna Chee, a yoga teacher, placed a call to the foundation to share how she used yoga to help her get through…
You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga, you just have to be willing to shake the dust off and see what happens.
xoDavid Good
