Before when I heard about meditation I was pretty sceptical about the idea of it, and trying to understand how it works, or is it really works?, when you consider that even if have health insurance being sick is going to cost you money in one way or another and
Do you have days when you feel there’s so much frustration and anger bubbling inside you that you lash out at anything that moves—our spouse, our kids, our BFFs, the dog—for behavior that normally wouldn’t bug us. We are all human beings and with the constant stressful life around us,
Hello there! Last week, I partnered up with Sharon to conduct a restorative class for our fellow classmates as part of our practical training and I thought it might be interesting to share with you some of the tips that I have learnt. Like what the name suggests, a restorative
In the modern perception of a yoga practice, under the influence of social media, it is often misinterpreted that Yoga is a pose and the goal of yoga is to achieve the pose. However to practice yoga holistically is to go much deeper than the physical. The yoga poses also
We are trained to be a multi-tasker since working in corporate world. With our multi-tasking ‘skill’, we are busy switching from task A to task B, C, D, then back to A, end up doing more and more jobs everyday. This is well explained by the chinese character of busy
I first came across sound therapy from singing bowl, tingsha and gong with yoga when I researched around about restorative yoga for our themed class teaching. Restorative yoga includes breathing exercises, meditation, and not only from relaxing music but may also include receiving om to calm our mind. Sound healing
What is meditation (dhyana)? According to Wikipedia, meditation is defined as “a practice whether an individual operates or trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or for the mind to simply acknowledge its content without being identified with that content, or as an
I came across this concept when I was reading Ray Long’s The Key Poses of Yoga and was able to relate to it in so many levels. The Ten Ox Herding Pictures, according to Wikipedia, is a series of short poems and accompanying pictures used in the Zen tradition to
When I started yoga a couple years ago, I was all over my mat and in fact what happens on the mat doesn’t stays on the mat, it reflects exactly what’s going on with my life. I was… Moving through poses without following the ‘inhale, exhale’ cues from my yoga
If you’re like me, you’re probably at one point wondering why we are chanting OM at the beginning and at the end of a yoga practice. Maybe you’re awkwardly chanting OM because everyone else is chanting, it will be weird if you don’t chant together with them. So what’s
