by Shawn Radcliffe | Jul 2, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spread around the world, many countries put in place lockdown measures. While these public health measures slowed the movement of the virus, they had unintended effects on the mental health of people whose daily lives and...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 25, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Most people will be exposed to a traumatic event at some point in their lives, either directly or indirectly. In one global survey by the World Health Organization, 70 percent of people had experienced at least one such event, with an average of three per person. This...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 18, 2020 | Health, Yoga
If you practice yoga regularly, you probably already know how calm and balanced you feel after class. But for people with depression, yoga can have an even more profound impact on their mental health, suggests new research. In turn, this can help them stay physically...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 11, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Recently I wrote about common barriers to practicing mindfulness such as illness, doubt, or laziness. Many of us have experienced at least one of these when sitting down to meditate or even when deciding whether to go to a yoga class. But there are also wider social...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 4, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Mindfulness offers a number of benefits such as reduced anxiety, improved thinking ability, and best of all, helping the brain minimize distractions. But these benefits only show up after regularly practicing mindfulness, which may be the hardest part of being...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 28, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Anyone who’s taken a yoga class already knows that it can reduce stress. The same holds for mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (MBSR), whose name says it all. But what if you combined the two? Can mindfulness and yoga together provide even more stress relief?...
