Yoga & Depression
There’s always some study or other about the benefits of yoga and how it can improve mindset, reduce stress and depression, and help you to live a more joyful life. This post is NOT a study or collection of citations, this is my personal experience of the yoga practice and how it has changed my life for the better…
Yoga for Beginners - Part 2: How can yoga help to cultivate a healthy mindset?
The practice of yoga brings us back into our PNS, rest and digest, stay and play mode. On a physical level, our heart rate slows, our breath deepens and blood flow can more easily reach our reproductive organs. On a mental and psychological level, we feel at ease. It is from this place of restful awareness that we notice our behaviours, our thoughts, our instinctive reactions.