[caption id="attachment_3415" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ www.monicafelix.com[/caption] People who are great thinkers struggle with being in touch with their emotional life because their issues often get processed intellectually, and they bypass what they’re actually feeling. They would rather know why they’re having an experience,...
[caption id="attachment_3402" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ www.monicafelix.com[/caption] After years of practicing yoga, I’ve found my instincts to be sharper than ever before because the most challenging component of practicing yoga is the stillness. Especially in Bikram, when it’s a hundred degree and sweat gushes...
[caption id="attachment_3397" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ www.monicafelix.com[/caption] Here’s something my yoga teacher recently asked the class during a difficult balancing pose. "If the floor disappeared right now, which muscles would you be engaging?" It’s a tough question. Because it confronts us with another one our...
[caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ www.monicafelix.com[/caption] Is yoga hard? Like many things in life, it’s as hard as we want it to be. That’s the beauty of the practice. It meets us where we are. It invites us to engage the level of intensity...
[caption id="attachment_3381" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ www.monicafelix.com[/caption] Yoga is one of many strategies that I employ to manage my anxiety in a healthy way. In part because practicing is an aerobic activity that boosts my brain’s dopamine levels and provides endorphins. But also because my...
[caption id="attachment_3372" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Monica Felix @ monicafelix.com[/caption] When we finish a yoga class, our first instinct to ask ourselves, well, how’d we do? Did we have a good class? But the problem with this kind of thinking is, it’s trapped in the binary,...