Category: Motivational

Empowering and Disempowering Beliefs

MotivationalRhea8 Comments
The longer I train and teach others, the more I realize how greatly our personal beliefs and attitudes affect our results. “Do you know the story of the four-minute mile? For thousands of years, people held the belief that it was impossible for a human being to run the mile in less than four minutes. But in 1954, Roger Banister broke this imposing belief barrier. He got himself to achieve the ‘impossible’ not merely by physical practice by constantly rehearsing the event in his mind, breaking through the four-minute barrier so many times with so much emotional intensity that he…

Demystifying the Chakras (from a hormonal perspective)

Motivational, YogaRhea17 Comments
The practice of opening the chakras is a great mystery to many people who are curious about yoga. Most people are told that the chakras are spiraling energies or bright lights that run up the spine or the shashuma. In western medicine, we do not think of the body as a series of energy passages or meridians. We see it as a biological machine that is run by protons, electrons and energy reactions. In this article, I will attempt to explain the biological, physical and emotional significance of the chakras. I hope this will help demystify their reputation. Learning about…

Yoga and the Eight Fold Path

Motivational, YogaRhea44 Comments
This post is a very general overview of the Eight Fold Path as represented by the Yoga Sutras which were written by Pantanjali about two thousand years ago.  I plan to write more in depth posts on the deeper aspects of the Sutras in the future. Raja Yoga, the Eightfold Path, the Sutras Pt. I These are the eight limbs: 1) the Yamas 2) the Niyamas 3) Asana 4) Pranayama 5) Pratyahara 6) Dharana 7) Dhyana 8) Samadhi The first two limbs (the Yamas and the Niyamas) are broken down into subcategories. The yamas mean “restraints” The niyamas mean “observances” I have…
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