#are finals over yet #yoga #motivation #inspiration #neil degrasse tyson
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Lululemon expects worldwide ‘shortage’ after recall of see-through yoga pants ›
Well…the content of this article is probably not that surprising. Neither are the sexist, misogynistic, and racist comments left by readers.
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#mary oliver #wild geese #poetry #poem #yoga
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver (via havisham)
a poem our lovely yoga instructor used to read us in Ithaca.
—y
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#inspiration #meditation #soul
Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul.
How often do you get to say Alan Watts via Anton Newcombe?
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What to Eat After a Workout
or anytime really!!
yummmm my favorite is steel-cut oats for breakfast but it’s starting to get too warm for that…so I just learned how to make yogurt :P
—y
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#savasana #yoga #yoga poses #teenytinyom #fitness #mindfulness
A little savasana love :)
#yoga #chelsea jackson #dianne bondy #yoga practice #diversity
Dianne Bondy and Chelsea Jackson talk about bringing diversity into the yoga community, a conversation much overdue.
These two women run amazing yoga blogs (chelsealovesyoga.com; diannebondyyoga.com) and it is so inspiring to hear them speak openly about the lack of colored bodies in yoga studios, communities, publications, and conferences.
—y
#hot yoga #bikram #power yoga #yoga #exercise #fitness #health #kreg weiss
Cautions with Hot Yoga ›
WHY PEOPLE SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND INFORMED WHEN DOING HOT YOGA:
*ELASTIC EDGE– our muscles and connective have a finite elastic edge where, once you pass that edge, the tissues simply break (ie tears) … we have sensory mechanisms that help us feel when we are reaching this elastic edge to prevent injury … in hot yoga, the excessive heat can readily dampen these sensory mechanisms allowing us to pass our elastic edge and fall into acute injuries
*DETOXIFICATION– the claims that sweating detoxifies the body is an exaggeration … the liver, lymphatic system and kidneys are our dominant detoxifying mechanisms … the skin accounts for a very MINOR amount of potential detoxification … by dehydrating the body in hot yoga, we actually diminish the function of the major detoxification mechanisms leading to the next point
*DEHYDRATION– rapid dehydration (especially without correct preloading) depletes cells of intracellular water … all (I repeat, ALL) chemical reactions in the body function in a water state … dehydration via hot yoga can lead to reduced energy, constipation, adverse effects on metabolism, and other unwanted physiology effects like increased heart rate (next point)
*SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS REACTION– when we exercise (yoga), our body requires an increase in oxygen which is delivered via our heart and blood vessels … our CARDIAC OUTPUT (volume of blood x beats/min) increases to meet oxygen demands … however, by rapidly dehydrating the body (sweating), we pull water from the blood … blood volume goes down, so in order to maintain cardiac output, the heart has no choice but to increase beats/min … for me, the primary benefit of yoga is to tap into the parasympathetic nervous system as much as possible to heal, purge stress, and to restore … an increase in heart beat is brought forward by the sympathetic nervous system (our ‘fight or flight’ system) … given that people are already chronically stressed and sitting in constant states of sympathetic activity, this seems counterproductive […]
(more at link)
I did hot yoga over the summer while I was at home, and while I prefer being too hot to being too cold in yoga, these are really important points to keep in mind. In our practice, we should cultivate care for our bodies first and foremost.
—y
#yoga #namaste #savasana #fuck yeah #mantra #self-care #self-love
YEA YEA YEA
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