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 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?...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 21, 2020 | Health, Meditation
How often have you sat down to watch a movie only to spend the entire film scrolling through the news or social media on your phone? Or hung out with your family or friends, but never really listened to what they were saying because you were thinking about work or...