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Gentle yoga poses for better sleep
17 Jan 2023

Yoga Poses for Better Sleep

Are you having trouble sleeping at night? Yoga is a great way to relax the mind and body and these four poses can be especially helpful for promoting better sleep.

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11 Jan 2023

The Dos & Don’ts of a Physical Yoga Practice

Do you ever SHOULD all over yourself in terms of your yoga practice? Thinking your body SHOULD do something, your yoga practice SHOULD be a certain way. Let’s talk about some of the dos and don’ts of your physical yoga practice and how to approach your practice with more ease, grace and acceptance of how your body is actually doing.

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Gentle Yoga International trauma informed yoga iRest yoga nidra
16 Dec 2022

Yoga Nidra for Stress & Anxiety

Yoga nidra is a powerful practice for reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep quality, and enhancing overall life satisfaction.

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24 Nov 2022

Warrior I Tutorial

Today we’re going to dive into the basics of how to do the Warrior I pose in a way that honours your needs and the alignment of your body. One of the myths of Warrior I is that we need to have our legs really far apart in a wide stance. Let’s bust that so that we understand how to move with integrity for our hips and the information we’re getting from our own body. 

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01 Nov 2022

More Success with At-Home Yoga

We know it can feel a little harder to create an at home yoga practice but with our four-part framework, you can have success building this habit and have a supportive, loving relationship with your mat at home.

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PTSD yoga
18 Oct 2022

3 ways yoga helped my PTSD

After trauma, I turned the dial WAY down on life. My survival responses were to disconnect and freeze. Yoga and iRest meditation helped me unfreeze and build a pathway back to life again after PTSD.

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Trauma sensitive yoga
14 Oct 2022

How to Find Success in Your At-Home Yoga Practice

Yoga does not restrict or expect perfectionism. Three ways to keep going with your home yoga practice!

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11 Oct 2022

Trauma Informed Yoga

Trauma informed yoga is perfectly suited, designed, and developed to be effective and powerful for trauma survivors. It is a way for trauma survivors to safely experiment with having a body again and through gentle yoga students can practice breathing, moving, feeling their body again, restoring the loss of control that they may have experienced in trauma.

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Gentle yoga
22 Sep 2022

3 Trauma-related Body Image Hurdles Yoga Helped me Overcome

Angie’s trauma fundamentally changed her relationship to her body – it severed it in fact. In this post she shares about how yoga and meditation were pivotal in her connecting to her body again and moving from wanting to disown it to accepting it as it is after injury.

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Yoga for trauma anxiety PTSD
11 Sep 2022

Dear Trauma Survivor

Feel like no matter what you do you can’t seem to move forward after trauma? Read this for inspiration.

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