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    Begin (Ritual Yin Journey)

    Although I don’t believe the new year is a time to brazingly wish for yourselves to change, I do think it’s a great time to take stock, reflect and dream of the year ahead. Last year I made a commitment to live more from the heart, less from the logical brain, basing my decisions of “what feels better, more right” rather than what is simply the most logical “smart” next move in life. And wow, the difference that small commitment to “listen to my heart more” has brought, life has flowed more than it ever did ❤️ So this year as I sat and listened to what the next year…

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    What happens when we breathe deep?

    Breathing is something that happens automatically, all day every day. It’s an automatic process driven by the brainstem, an area of the brain which controls life-sustaining functions like heartbeat, hormone release, and sleeping patterns. We can move through life without giving it much thought. However, we know it changes as we move through various emotions. When we’re stressed, it can become very slow and shallow, when we’re anxious it can be fast and relentless. On the contrary when were calm & focused it becomes deep and elongated. Amazingly humans are the only species who also have conscious control over this automatic system, we can change our breathing pattern just by…

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    The Neuroscience of Yoga

    I started doing yoga daily whilst amidst intense study, an MSc Neuroscience followed by a Ph.D., I was stressed and needed something to counteract it. Yoga was my savior, my destress tool. I could feel the positive effects but being me I wanted to know what was going on inside at a biological level. What I began learning fascinated me, so much so that I left my Ph.D. and became a yoga teacher. Here is a snippet of what I’ve been learning recently, hopefully, it will interest you too…. As far back as Krishna (3228 BC), India’s greatest prophet, there are writings referring to electricity in the body, the spine…