Love & Asana Blog — Yoga

Imagine being just six years old and feeling a pounding headache, your eyes squinting against the light, and your stomach churning with nausea. That was my first encounter with a migraine attack that I can remember, a condition my mother knew all too well. She swiftly turned our home into a sanctuary of darkness and silence, allowing me to rest. This became my go-to remedy, and honestly nobody ever told me that there was anything I could preventively do to support myself living with this condition. So I carried on, accepting that this was something I had to deal with but...

Does every single day feel like it starts out at a high level of stress and compounds from there? I don't want that for you, and I'm sure you don't want it for yourself either. Now is the perfect time to curate self-care techniques for noticing your stressors and managing them.  The goal is to support your innate ability to heal, adapt and be resilient - which means allowing your nervous system to flow between the sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest & digest) responses. You can encourage this flow with intentional micro-breaks of 1 minute or less throughout...

Most of my clients are spending their days hopping from meeting to meeting, which leaves them feeling at a loss for time to recharge. This is why our virtual wellness sessions always end with a call to choose one technique for micro-breaks throughout the work day. While I want everyone to feel empowered in their self-care at work, company culture is an important influence on how and if that actually plays out. I'm sharing two quick ways to support your team’s wellness within your meetings using mindfulness. Both of these can be done in 1 minute. 1. Breathe Together Kick...

We're too hard on ourselves. I said it. Crazy high expectations can make it difficult to feel accomplished, happy and fulfilled...all things that play a role in our mental wellness and how we show up in the world. So what do we do? Lower your expectations. I'll say it again. Lower your expectations. Lowering expectations (or letting go of them completely) allows us to take risks and explore without any pressure for a specific outcome. We can be more present, observing with no agenda other than to be in relation with ourselves. This is cultivating awareness. If we're aware of...

It's Q4 - the perfect time to curate yoga tools for noticing your stressors and managing them. We want to support our innate ability to heal, adapt and be resilient - which means allowing the nervous system to flow between sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest & digest) responses. Then you can really show up for your colleagues, clients and yourself from a space of clarity and calm! You can encourage this flow with intentional micro-breaks throughout the day, like my two favorites below. In less than 30 seconds you can soothe your nervous system and tone your Vagus...