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[dt_button link="https://yogahealthcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/yoga-nidra.mp3" target_blank="false" button_alignment="default" animation="fadeIn" size="medium" style="default" bg_color_style="default" bg_hover_color_style="default" text_color_style="default" text_hover_color_style="default" icon="fa fa-chevron-circle-right" icon_align="left"]Download audio[/dt_button] Tamsin Astor-Jack has a BS/BSc in Psychology and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, where she studied the relationship between intention and reactivity in the brain. Yoga Nidra is yogic sleep or sleep awareness.  It is a practice that allows for total and systematic relaxation.  The goal is to leave the waking state, go through the dream state and into the deep sleep...

Yoga Nidra is yogic sleep or sleep awareness. It is a practice that allows for total and systematic relaxation. The goal is to leave the waking state, go through the dream state and into the deep sleep state, while remaining awake. This lofty goal is tough for most of us! It is very difficult to let go completely. We live in an overstimulated world where are our attention is split between many things which makes it...

Let me ask you a question… Do you ever think the accomplished yogis and vaidyas of yore (insert your favorite accomplished yogi(ini)) ever woke up and didn’t want to hit the mat? Do you think this ever went through his/her mind? “God, I’m over it. I keep saluting the sun, the moon, the sky, the Earth. Shiva, I’m bored of chanting your name over and over and over. Vishnu, I’ve had enough of sitting on this freaking cushion....

Dear You, So, you've been reading my blog for a while now, right? Keeping an eye on the conversation? Having an occasional revelation or chuckle? Well, I'm glad, but let me ask you… What has changed in your day-to-day life? Do you do things different? Do you feel better? Are you more awake and interconnected? Do you live more at-ease than overwhelmed? Let me guess… You've been overextended. It’s hard to implement the simplest of the health evolution strategies when you ’re overextended. You encountered conflicting tactics? You're...

The Gershwin Brothers were ahead of their time when they wrote their iconic song. They may or may not have been hip to the rhythm of nature, but they were certainly hip to the rhythm of music. They’re not dissimilar. The mountains of Bavaria are stunning and provide a perfect backdrop against which to write my inaugural blog on rhythm. Where better to feel the cycles of nature than wrapped in the arms of Mother Nature’s sattva?...

aire jordan fendi belt I was 26 years old… raised on the S.A.D. diet. I was a first year student on the way to becoming an Ayurvedic Practitioner. I had horrible seasonal allergies and recurrent migraines. I elected to do Pancha Karma training as part of my Ayurvedic training. (Pancha Karma the vedic system of detox and disease extraction). In the PK training, I ended up on a massage table snorting multiple doses of herbal oil up my nostrils....