Yoga for Mental Health: Just how does yoga help mental health and what techniques can one use to improve their own?
October 10th is World Mental Health Day. As part of Mental Health Awareness Day, we want to promote awareness, combat stigmatization, and encourage people to seek treatment. In the United States alone, 1 in 5 people suffer from mental illness. It's time we had an honest dialogue about it without any prejudice.
A number of studies indicate that yoga can help with stress, anxiety, and depression. Yoga is a practice that involves controlled, physical movements, breath-work combined with meditation. Practicing breath exercise and regular body stretching can help relieve symptoms of depression, including insomnia, self-confidence.
Off-mat Practice: Ahimsa Workbook
Ahimsa is a practice of non-harming or non-violence. Download your Ahimsa Journal Prompts worksheet to elevate your yoga experience with us.
Intention-Setting Worksheet
Intentions are internally focused. They state how you intend to feel right now. Intentions put the power of change in your own hands and enable you to create an immediate shift. Download the YogaHub Intention Setting Worksheet and get started on your inner journey.
Journal prompt: Root Chakra
The root chakra deals in survival and is blocked by fear. Download the Root Chakra Journal Prompts to uncover your fears.
9 Ways to Celebrate International Yoga Day
On Sunday, June 21st, International Yoga Day invites us to start healing on a personal and global level.
Beyond postures that create physical wellness, yoga restores the very core of our humanity. It reminds us that we are never apart and alone, but deeply connected with each other and the world around us. It allows us to move through struggles and tap into the cosmic consciousness that spans beyond time and space.
How to start your own at-home daily yoga practice
Through daily practice, you invest in yourself every day. You might not feel anything happening, but the “interest” grows and delivers innumerable returns over time.
The answer is inside.
We spend our whole lives trying to do things, acquire things, be somebody, have somebody, or somehow shape the world around us in order to feel good.
A quick and easy practice for giving Good Vibes
This Gratitude Practice works because it stops the endless cycle of discontent.
Meditation at the Workplace
The truth is, I don’t have time to not meditate…and neither do you.