Showing posts with label elephant journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant journal. Show all posts

It's Official - Yoga Can Help With Stress

Most yoga practitioners know that yoga makes them feel good, and it helps them deal with stress.

Science is starting to understand the mechanisms behind this, and there is a lot of research going on about how this might work.

I wrote this short piece for Elephant Journal referencing a few studies which explain some of the science behind it.

Yoga and the 10 bulls of Zen

In the 12th century, Zen master Kakuan, painted 10 pictures illustrating a boy’s search for a bull.

Zen often uses simple stories to illustrate important points—this series of pictures depicts the stages someone might pass in search of their own true nature.

Yoga is often seen as the process of becoming ourselves, or finding our own true nature.

The 10 phases lend themselves to the stages we might pass on our journey, and provide a map to show us where we are and where we may be heading.

Find out more about the 10 stages in an article I wrote for the Elephant Journal

What I learnt from the headstand

I recently conquered a mental block by teaching myself to do the headstand.

I love how in your yoga practice, the body can often be used as an analogy for the mind.

In this process, I learnt something about myself, my body, and life in general.

I wrote a little piece about it, and it was published in the Elephant Journal (one of my favourite yoga journals) here: The Wisdom of the Headstand