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Is Yoga for Stress Relief Better With Mindfulness?

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?...

Four Reasons Why You Should Be Mindful During Yoga

by Shawn Radcliffe | May 7, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga

When I first started doing yoga, I would sometimes practice at home while watching TV or listening to the news. This seemed like a good way to keep from getting bored while I moved from pose to pose. It wasn’t until I started going regularly to group yoga classes that...

Using Yoga to Navigate Difficult Times

by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 22, 2020 | Meditation, Yoga

Many people are drawn to yoga because they enjoy the movement and stretching. They may even keep coming back to class because yoga opens up tight muscles or relieves pain from an old injury. What they may not realize is that a regular yoga practice can also have a...

What is Mindfulness Yoga?

by Shawn Radcliffe | Nov 15, 2019 | Meditation, Yoga

Even though I’ve only been teaching Mindfulness Yoga for a few years, I’ve actually been teaching mindfulness yoga for much longer than that. What? I know. This sounds a bit like a logic problem: If a yoga teacher leaves on a train headed due east at 50 km/hour, and...

4 Yoga Poses to Help You Embrace Spring

by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 31, 2019 | Yoga

It’s hard to believe that Spring is already here. With snow falling over much of the weekend, it looked more like winter solstice than spring equinox. I took full advantage of this Winter reboot (pun intended) — I went cross-country skiing on both Saturday and...