Yoga Stress Busters for the Holidays

3 Quick and Easy Yoga Tips for Energy, Calm and Clarity for the Holiday Season Tis the season to get really stressed out!  We tend to compress a year’s worth of entertaining, professional networking, cooking, baking, connecting with family and friends, extra school activities for kids, family traditions, shopping, and decorating all in one month. […]

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Feel Your Best with Yoga: Cancer Treatment and Recovery

Life changes in an instant with a diagnosis of cancer. It’s like a big wave crashing through the house rearranging everything. How do you manage the big wave? The ancient science of yoga provides useful tools for coping with the diagnosis and treatments and supporting optimal health in recovery. How Yoga Helps Yoga therapy (the […]

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Why Eat Fermented Foods?

Did you grow up with grandparents or parents who made sauerkraut in the old-fashioned way where the cabbage was shredded, salted, pounded and stored in a huge crock to stink up the basement or garage for a few weeks?  It turns out that your ancestors were culturing a healthy batch of bacteria, nutrients and flavor.

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Digesting and Transforming Through Transitions

Change in our life comes in many different ways.  Sometimes we plan for the change.  A retirement, career change, moving, or getting married are examples of things that we often consciously choose.  Other changes blow in like a strong wind that destroys any sense of order and stability.

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Summer Greens and How to Dress Them

Early summer greens in the Midwest are a treat of taste, nutrients, and accomplishment!  Even if you didn’t plant the greens, you may have to get up early enough to get to the farmer’s market to get the good ones.

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How Should You Practice Yoga Postures?  

Effort and Ease Practicing yoga postures can help us cultivate the very useful skill of being at ease even when something is difficult.  We can learn to be present with opposing forces when practicing the physical postures of yoga (asana) and in daily life.

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Yoga, MS & Neurological Conditions

Yoga can be a helpful practice of self-care for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological conditions (such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, Lyme’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease). Yoga practices such as gentle postures, seated breathing practices, hand movements, guided relaxation, sound, and meditation can be adapted to help people with neurological […]

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‘Eggs’straordinary Asparagus Frittata

We’re kicking off our local food and nutrition blog at 5 Koshas Yoga & Wellness by paying homage to that versatile, portable, nutritious, spheroid packet of protein…the egg.  There is no better time than Easter to feature eggs as we all color, decorate, hide, and hopefully find them.

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Prenatal Yoga for Happy Moms and Babies

Can prenatal yoga help reduce depression during pregnancy?  A small pilot study published in Womens Health Issues (March-April 2015) demonstrated that a 10-week prenatal yoga program decreased the participants’ depression severity significantly.

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