One of the most difficult things beginners in yoga and/or meditation face is in developing a home practice. We all face this at some point. It’s our nature to want to do what’s easy and comfortable and for most of us, that means we ignore or skip our own practice and instead rely on a [...]
Read On No CommentsFor the months of March and April 2009, Heartspring Yoga and Zafu Zafu of Barrie, Ontario, Canada are donating 10% of all sales of yoga and meditation supplies to Freeing the Human Spirit, a Toronto, Ontario-based charity that sends certified yoga & meditation teachers into prisons to teach inmates, in honour of FTHS founder Sister Elaine [...]
New INTRO TO YOGA class series in Barrie, Ontario, Canada - a series of six consecutive classes on Saturday afternoons from 1:30 - 2:30 pm.
FEATURES:
Small class size
individual attention
slower paced
focus on safety in postures
lots of detailed instruction
class notes & handouts
introduction to yoga and meditation
non-competitive
teacher is certified and registered
prepares you for our beginners’ yoga classes.
The next series [...]
This YouTube video is just too cute not to post! It’s amazing how flexible children are.
An article from the Associated Press today talks about the latest “bump in the landscape of the economic meltdown: adult acne”.
What could be more embarassing?
It’s true, as dermatologist Dr. Cheryl Karcher says, that the nervous and hormone systems of the body work together, and when the nervous system is stimulated by stress, acne can be [...]
How many yoga mats do you have? One, two, four? Have you considered recycling or upcycyling or re-using your mat? Even yoga mats go to heaven!
RECYCLING or UPCYCLING
Heartspring Yoga is now an authorized centre for Recycle Your Mat, a great new company founded by yoga practitioner Stephanie Spano in Eugene, Oregon. Her goal is to [...]
India is all set to grab the so called rights from patent parties in America and Britain who claim some of the ancient Yoga poses from its treasury of tradition and heritage as their own invention. India has geared up to put an end to the theft of its traditional knowledge by identifying the asanas [...]
Last fall, I read an excellent book by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. called ANTI-CANCER. Dr. Servan-Schreiber is a brain cancer survivor who used traditional allopathic treatments combined with exercise and diet in order to successfully treat the recurrence of his brain cancer. At the end of this article, I give a link to an [...]
A series of links to Upaya Zen Centre’s Dharma Talks on Zen and the Brain. Lecturers include Dr. James Austin, Sandra Blakeslee, Dr. Richard Davidson, and Dr. Al Kaszniak.
1. Science is just now documenting what meditators have known for millennia. Jim Austin calls meditation “artful attention” and discusses the importance of this skill in our [...]