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Guided Mindfulness Meditation for Presence, Peace and Clarity (Free Video)
Mindfulness meditation can be defined simply as present moment awareness with non-attachment. Relax and get present with this guided mindfulness meditation.
YogiApproved | August 19, 2017
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Life
What’s Your Spirit Animal? Take the Quiz to Find Out!
Spirit animals represent guidance, support and strength. When we connect to our spirit animal we gain insight into various parts of ourselves and our lives.
Ashton August | August 16, 2017
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Mindfulness Meditation Guide: How to Start a Daily Practice
Mindfulness meditation is a tool that we can use daily to manage stress, improve mental health, and cultivate happiness. This guide has everything you need.
Erik Vienneau | August 8, 2017
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Life
Meet the Welzen App – Your 21st Century Meditation Guru
One of the most important characteristics of any app is its usability. Welzen is user-friendly and intuitive. This is your 21st century meditation guru.
YogiApproved | July 19, 2017
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Get Back to Your Roots – 5 Ways to Use Nature to Stay Grounded
Nature is a source of peace, love, and grounding energy. Get out in nature to get grounded and cultivate inner peace with these 5 tips.
Danielle Phillips | July 11, 2017
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Master Your Ability to Manifest With This Guided Meditation by Dr. Wayne Dyer (Video)
This isn’t just the Law of Attraction - this is the Law of the Universe: thoughts create things. Give yourself a few minutes to take a break and meditate.
Morgan Garza | June 1, 2017
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These 3 Pranayama Techniques Will Bliss You The F– Out!
Using Pranayama breathing techniques, our life force energy moves much more powerfully and freely within the body, cleansing the energetic channels.
Elena Savina | April 20, 2017
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10-Minute Guided Mindfulness Meditation for Peace + Presence
Mindfulness is a powerful technique that can alleviate the stresses and strains of the modern lifestyles we live.
Sachin Sharma | April 19, 2017
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Life
Breath of Fire Pranayama Tutorial to Cleanse + Energize Your Body
Pranayama, or conscious breathwork, is an amazing practice.
Ashton Aiden | March 22, 2017
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Guided Pranayama and Mindfulness Meditation for a Calm and Peaceful Mind (Video)
This guided pranayama breathwork and meditation with Ashton August will help you feel grounded and present, calm and clear.
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Everything You Need to Know About Chanting and Kirtan
Chanting and kirtan have made their reemergence in popularity for one reason: they are extremely powerful. Chanting allows a yoga practice...
Danielle Phillips | February 27, 2017
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Founder of Yoga Rocks the Park Launches a New Mindfulness Event – The AWAKE Experience
Mindfulness opens the door to living your life eyes wide open and to squeezing every last drop of...
Ashton August | February 22, 2017
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2 Minute Guided Meditation For B*tches That Don’t Meditate (Video)
Dare we say, funniest guided meditation we've seen? "You know what I am good at? Freaking the f*ck out...
YogiApproved | February 2, 2017
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Health & Wellness
Chakra, Aura, and Reiki Energy Healing Guide
This guide is designed to help you learn and get started with energy healing yourself. Achieving balance in our energetic bodies allows us to reach our full physical potential...
Bridgette Miler | January 16, 2017
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The 6 Essential Steps to a Successful Meditation Session
“What exactly is meditation, and how the hell do I do it?!” This is a fair question, folks! And it’s a question many, many students ask. That’s why we’ve outlined the process in six simple steps for you to get started.
Shay Grant | January 15, 2017
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Product Reviews
Yoloha Cork Meditation Cushion Product Review
When it comes to product reviews, we don’t mess around. All of the items we review are put...
YogiApproved | December 12, 2016
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How Meditation Is Helping Convicts Get out of Prison (Video)
Our prisons are overpopulated. Many prisoners are released from prison only to be sent back soon after. How...
Michelle Stanger | November 29, 2016
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These Meditation Cushions Double as Yoga Blocks (Video Review)
Meditation, on a physical level, is all about the posture. Finding a comfortable seat is the first step...
YogiApproved | November 15, 2016
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Life
These Meditation + Intention Cards Will Help You Create Daily Joy
May You Know Joy is a company created by a life coach who specializes in helping others create...
YogiApproved | November 7, 2016
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15 Fantastic Ways To Teach Mindfulness To Kids
Part of living a full life is to truly experience the world around us and within us. For...
Marilyn Vinch | October 30, 2016
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Life
What if We Replaced Detention with Meditation? This School Did & the Results Are Amazing
There are scary situations in our world today - negativity and hate rule our thoughts and actions. Is...
Michelle Stanger | October 5, 2016
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How to Improve Your Meditation Practice
Have you come to a place in your meditation practice that needs some encouragement? How have you helped deepen your own practice?
Aimee Hughes | August 26, 2016
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Health & Wellness
Meditation and Aging: Could Meditation Be the Fountain of Youth?
Be sure to take some time for yourself each day to relax with a quick and effective meditation. Reducing your stress means reducing the way your body internally and externally ages.
Jacqlyn Grace Melita | August 14, 2016
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7 Affordable Yoga Retreats You Don’t Want to Miss
Thoughts or questions about going on a retreat? If you’d like more recommendations for all types of retreats from around the world...
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A Guide on What to Expect at Your First Meditation Class
A study... found that as little as eight weeks of meditation not only helped people experience decreased anxiety and greater feelings of calm; it also produced growth in the areas of the brain associated with memory, stress regulation, sense of self, and empathy.
Teresa Mason | July 30, 2016
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Top 4 Online Resources to Help You Meditate
Meditation is a fundamental part of living a life of peace, happiness, and contentment. We all lead busy lives, and our time is valuable, so why not make the most of it by incorporating a wellness habit that will improve and enhance all areas of your life? It all starts with a willingness to try, and now you’ve been given the tools you need to continue the journey.
Bess O'Connor | July 27, 2016
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A Guided Meditation to Answer the Eternal Question “Who am I?”
This meditation is a powerful practice that empowers you to internalize the truth of Oneness and experience it for yourself.
Saiisha | July 25, 2016
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5-Minute Guided Meditation to Set Yourself Free + Find Contentment
5-Minute Guided Meditation to Set Yourself Free + Find Contentment. Freedom is one of the primary aims of yoga, and one could say, of life. In some way or another, we all want to be free.
Aimee Hughes | July 12, 2016
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Life
How to Use Meditation To Time Travel
I ask us all to enjoy each moment, just as it is, and go through our days being more mindful, enjoying each moment, savoring all that each day has to bring.
Kerry Fantelli | July 3, 2016
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Life
5 Simple Steps to Find Deep, Lasting Happiness
Getting in touch with and connecting to this greater part of ourselves is what ultimately puts us in touch with our eternal happiness.
Aimee Hughes | June 21, 2016
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Health & Wellness
How to Perform Yagna: An Ancient Purification Practice
Yogis have historically performed rituals as a way to connect with the cosmos and with their own higher...
Saiisha | June 16, 2016
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Life
5 Ways to Deepen Your Self-Study Using Svadhyaya (the Fourth Niyama)
Svadhyaya, the fourth Niyama of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, means ‘self-study. This awareness can bring great change, while also getting us in touch with our larger Soul Self, the Self that knows what’s best for our evolution.
Aimee Hughes | June 10, 2016
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Health & Wellness
The Way Out from Depression – A Guide to Help You Heal
Depression, as we define it in the U.S., isn't an illness, disease, or defect of character, but an “extreme of mood.” The counterpart of depression is abnormal happiness called “mania,” which is often dismissed as more functional and socially acceptable.
BetterYears.com | May 24, 2016
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Health & Wellness
This Is Your Brain on Yoga
It seems that modern science keeps finding more and more benefits to this ancient practice. This is your brain on yoga.
Ashley Stern | May 21, 2016
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Health & Wellness
Calm Down! A Simple Guide to Deep Belly Breathing
Your breath oxygenates every blood cell in your body, provides nourishment, slows your heart rate and lowers or stabilizes blood pressure. If your energy is scattered and feels chaotic under stress, breathing can bring you back into your body.
Taylor Winn | May 16, 2016
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Om Mani Padme Hum: The Meaning Behind the Popular Mantra
Chanting soothes the senses and sends energy to the parts of your body, chakra centers, that most need it. Calming sounds and mantra are known to help heal the body and mind.
Meredith DeCosta | May 12, 2016
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7 Psychology-Based Hacks to Create the Ultimate Sacred Space
Amidst the hustle and bustle of our modern lives, carving out a sacred space in our home can help us feel cozy, safe, and open - open to new thoughts, open to new bends in our yoga practice, open to the truths that await us in the stillness.
Josh Duvauchelle | May 11, 2016
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8 Mindful Alternatives to Meditation
When you are mindful, you enable yourself to fully live in the moment, and you are thus awake to all you are experiencing. Meditation yields the same results, but many people are intimidated to begin the practice.
Kasia Litwinski | May 4, 2016
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5 Tips from Yogis on How to Calm the Mind
Yoga aims to find the true essence of our being through a process designed to calm the mind and bring a sense of stillness and peace.
Ian Marshall | March 13, 2016
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How to Control Your Mind and Experience More Peace
So how do we go about controlling the formation of thoughts? Here are 5 steps to control your mind and experience more peace:
Yogi Ram | February 17, 2016
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Life
There Is Beauty in the Silence
I was watching a commercial the other day and the host took away five people’s phones and through them into some sort of machine that destroyed them. One girl looked at the camera and said, “My chest hurts.”
Mary Beth LaRue | February 14, 2016
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How to Practice a Quick and Effective Meditation
When you get a break in your busy day - whether it be a break from being a...
Danielle Phillips | February 9, 2016
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3 Simple Steps to Make Meditation Your New Healthy Habit
If you haven’t started a meditation practice yet, or if you find it difficult in any way, don’t be discouraged. Try these 3 simple steps:
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Yoga
How to Teach Kids 5 Pranayama Breathing Techniques
Well I'll tell you something - kids love working with the breath!! There is so much fun to be had with breathing exercises.
Joanne Moules | December 26, 2015
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Health & Wellness
Shift Happens… Clearing Energy in Your Space and in Your Self
When we “clear the air,” what we are actually clearing is the energy within and around us.
Kari-Ann Levine | December 19, 2015
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8 Chakra-Inspired Products for a Healthy and Balanced You
Your chakras are the energy centers of your body that hold your spiritual power.
YogiApproved | December 10, 2015
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Product Reviews
Product Review: Muse Meditation Headband
Are you interested in meditating but feel like you don’t even know where to begin? Introducing brain sensing headphones that provide real-time feedback on what’s actually going on in your brain while you meditate.
YogiApproved | December 4, 2015
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11 Meditation Products You Need for Your Home Practice
Here are 11 products that can help you maintain your focus and enhance your personal meditation practice at home.
YogiApproved | December 3, 2015
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Health & Wellness
How Yoga, Meditation and Holistic Living Has Benefited My Family
We haven’t always been holistic. We haven’t always practiced yoga and meditation regularly. We haven’t always been health conscious.
Lacey Davis | November 18, 2015
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5 Important Benefits of Meditation on Your Brain
If you practice meditation regularly, you know how good it feels - like a deep breath for the mind. We know it feels great, but what are the actual affects on the brain?
Meredith Osborne | November 6, 2015
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An Introduction to the Chakras
There are 7 chakras total, each one located at significant locations in the body, and each one representing a piece of our energetic being.
Allie Flavio | November 2, 2015
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The Chakras Explained
Chakras are places of energy within the body that are located along the central channel of the body. The seven chakras are located from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head.
Ashley Stern | October 17, 2015
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Meditation: If at First You Don’t Succeed, You’re Probably Not the Only One (Funny Video)
Tell your thoughts to be still and prepare to experience pure bliss. You’ve now entered mediation, and it’s so easy, right?! Maybe not so much...
Alexa Erickson | August 22, 2015
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F*ck That: A Guided Meditation (Profanity)
This refreshingly honest take on a guided meditation is just what the doctored ordered. It may be a little profane, but you what? It's what were all thinking anyway.
Johnny Jedi | July 8, 2015
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Life
Why We Heart Wanderlust: A Yoga Festival and Mindfulness Movement
Yoga festivals have steadily been growing in popularity worldwide. Wanderlust launched their first event in 2009 in Squaw Valley, California, and has truly set the standard in the realm of yoga festivals. So what is the Wanderlust mission? To inspire yogis to seek better food and promote a better earth with the intention, awareness, and creativity embodied by yoga.
YogiApproved | June 24, 2015
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5 Ways to Meditate Your Way Through Anxiety
Meditate through anxiety. I don’t know about you, but when I first started learning about and practicing meditation, my mind was clouded with some preconceived notions. Those notions being: Meditation is supposed to be relaxing. Meditation is clearing the mind of all thoughts. Meditation is supposed to be a completely calm and peaceful experience.
Danielle Phillips | May 11, 2015
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Preparing for Peace – From Savasana to Your Life
Once we recognize how much control our minds and thoughts have over our entire existence, we can begin to work toward finding inner peace.
Alissa Lastres | April 30, 2015
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50 Shades of Grey Matter: Manage Stress with Neurosculpting Yoga
Stressed out? You don't have to be a monk to meditate. Neurosculpting Yoga can help.
George Peele | April 22, 2015
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Health & Wellness
The Problem with Using Yoga to Lose Weight
The Problem with Using Yoga to Lose weight. Yoga is a practice of the mind over the body. Never is this more apparent than when one finds self-confidence in the body through yoga, not because yoga transformed your body, but because yoga transformed your mind.
Sophia Herbst | April 8, 2015
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What to Expect at an Ashram
An Ashram is a place for practicing Yoga, Meditation and other spiritual practices to evolve and grow spiritually. Ashrams are typically set outside a village or town in a quiet and peaceful area.
Yogi Ram | April 2, 2015
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Using Meditation To Hit Pause On Overthinking
It is the tendency of the mind to fall into compulsive, repetitive patterns. Cyclical thought patterns rob us from being in the flow of the present moment, where all ease and enjoyment flourishes.
Kari-Ann Levine | March 10, 2015
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How to Use and Select a Mala to Enhance Your Meditation Practice
A mala is a long strand of 108 beads that you can use to enhance your meditation practice. Instead of focusing on the number of times you repeat your mantra, you can use your mala to keep count so that you can focus your mantra’s meaning.
Krysta Shannon | January 29, 2015
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3 Things to Consider When Creating Your Own Sacred Space
What is a sacred space? Do you have to be religious to have one? What do they look like? We'll break it down for you.
William Ferro | October 10, 2014
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6 Simple Steps For Beginning a Regular Meditation Practice
Let's face it, life can get a little overwhelming at times. When this happens it is important to have an outlet that quiets your mind, centers your thoughts and brings you back to earth with a smile. Meditation is this medicine but be carful, it is addicting and has some seriously positive side effects. Follow these simple suggestions and you'll be on your way to a better you.
Elisha Thompson | August 16, 2014
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Russell Brand Has Something Important to Say. We’re All Ears! (video)
Russell Brand is not just the funny, playful and sometimes a little crazy rockstar of a person that most people think he is. He is so much more! Must Watch!
Tyler | August 3, 2014
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Celebrate Summer with Walking Meditation
4 Types of Walking Meditation you can do outdoors - It's time to get outside again!
William Ferro | July 20, 2014
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4 Breathing Techniques for Your Meditation – Inhale the good. Exhale the Bad
There are many forms of Pranayama (breathing), and we encourage you to explore and discover the methods that mesh with your unique practice and needs. Here are 4 breathing techniques to take your meditation to the next level.
Ashton August | April 5, 2014
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