by Shawn Radcliffe | Jul 16, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
For many people, their smartphone is more likely to be a source of distraction than a pathway to greater mindfulness. But like all technology, the smartphone is just a tool, one that can be used for good or evil. In this case, “evil” is flitting from one app to...
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?...