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Common Yoga Mistakes
In the spirit of heart season, I want to talk about a common yoga mistake I see when it comes to heart-opening practices. Often times when I’m training other instructors or clients, they approach heart opening from the front body…
5 Minute Compassion Meditation
5 min Compassion Meditation One of the easiest ways to reduce stress at work is to lead with compassion. Investing in your people helps set them on a path to success. By supporting their growth, you help clear their path…
Unexpected Solutions For Managers to Reduce Stress in the Workplace
Unexpected Solutions For Managers to Reduce Stress in the Workplace One of the easiest ways to reduce stress at work is to lead with compassion. Investing in your people helps set them on a path to success. By supporting their…
How Corporate Yoga Sessions Benefit More than Productivity
Corporate yoga sessions benefit more than productivity. It can also boost creativity… Let’s circle back to 2016 when I was personal-training several clients in Golden Gate Park. This one day, I was working with Lorrie, who’d had a stroke on…
Yoga for Heart Health
Yoga for Heart Health It’s Heart Season! There are two things I want to share with you when it comes to heart-opening, or heart health, in Office Yoga. First is the physical benefits of heart-opening sequences, and second is the…
Calling all teachers! What is Office Yoga without an office?
Calling all teachers! What is Office Yoga without an office? This week I was on the podcast with Amanda Kingsmith, who is the Founder of Mastering the Business of Yoga! Amanda hosted me on the podcast back in the summer…
Top 5 Benefits of Corporate Yoga
One year ago, we rolled out Twitter’s Office Yoga® program nationwide, conducting live classes in New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, LA, and San Francisco. It took us 8 months to implement, and then within 2 weeks, all the…
Is Sitting at a Computer Giving You Back Pain? Here are 9 Yoga Poses to Relieve Back Pain
When it comes to enduring discomfort, I would say that my threshold is high. I swam for over nine hours in 54F water with no wetsuit. I once got lost biking, and to survive the day, I was required to…
If Buddha had a Heart Attack
Why do people meditate? Because of moments like this… “Act as if this is your last moment, and act as if you are going to live forever.” This is why people meditate. These are the words my dad spoke to…
Downdog or Updog? Most Important Yoga Poses To Do Daily
My favorite excuse of all time is “I’m too tight to do yoga.” This is like saying you’re too dirty to take a bath. Let’s drop that narrative for a moment and consider these five most important yoga poses to…
Q4 Tips for Stress Relief
Q4 Tips for Stress Relief It appears Election Day has now metastasized into Election Season! And while the “season” is almost over, you can’t deny the presence of more stress and anxiety in how people are behaving. To add to…
Why Not Now? Podcast
Is this the best or worst time for entrepreneurs to start their dream business? This is a question that many people have been asking themselves. With the economy shut down, jobs changing and the industries meeting new demands, people are…
Block Booster
Block Booster Use a yoga block to lift your screen up to eye level. This will save your neck and shoulders. See more tricks for your feet and seat in Ergo Hacks for Your Home Office.
Puppy Pose
Puppy Pose or #anahatasana This pose is GREAT for shoulders and spine. Helps to open the throat and chest, good basis for downdog.Start in table top position. Keep your hips over your knees and walk your hands forward. Bring forehead…
Power Chair
Inhale: Sit back into chair pose. Stay low and lift heels off floor. Exhale: Sweep arms back by sides and maintain balance. Inhale: Come up to stand, press heels down as you reach up. From here you can go into…