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Leila Kalmbach | March 13, 2019

7 Ways to Find Mindfulness If You’re *NOT* Into Meditation

Need stress relief but want a meditation alternative? Try mindfulness! Here are 7 mindfulness techniques to find your zen without straight-up meditating.
Marina Rousseau | March 10, 2019

Hypnosis 101: Debunk the Myths and Get the Facts About Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been used for ages to help with a plethora of ailments, illnesses, and vices. Here’s everything to know about this practice.
Danielle McKee | February 15, 2019

5 Simple Steps to Meditate Your Way Through Anxiety

Meditation and anxiety aren't exactly opposites. But you can use meditation to help you cope with anxiety (even if it arises during practice!). Here's how.
Jenny Campbell | January 11, 2019

Use These 3 Self-Care Practices for a Body-Positive Start to the New Year

Self-care is crucial for us all. Use these three self-care practices for a healthy, happy, and body-positive start to the New Year.

Morgan Garza | September 2, 2018

Prepare to Manifest With This Guided Sound Meditation by Dr. Wayne Dyer (Video)

Take 20 minutes each morning to use thought, sound and Dr. Wayne Dyer's guided meditation to manifest exactly what you desire.
Carolina Rigoni | July 18, 2018

Hit the Reset Button With These 7 Self-Care Rituals to Refresh and Revitalize Mind + Body

Self-care is necessary. These 7 self-care rituals are free or low cost and don’t take a lot of time. They will help you reset, recharge, and feel great.
Leah Sugerman | July 18, 2018

How Meditation Became the Saving Grace For the Trapped Thai Soccer Team

The benefits of meditation are plentiful and may reach further than you know. Here’s how meditation helped save the the trapped Thai soccer team.
Hannah Leatherbury | July 17, 2018

5 Yoga Practices For Balancing the Sacral Chakra

When your Sacral Chakra is imbalanced, you may feel stuck, alone, or undesirable. Try these five juicy practices for Sacral Chakra healing and balancing.
Meredith DeCosta | July 11, 2018

Om Mani Padme Hum: The Meaning Behind the Popular Mantra

Om Mani Padme Hum is a popular yogic mantra and is often found on Tibetan prayer flags. In English, it translates to “Praise to the Jewel in the Lotus.”
Morgan Casavant | June 27, 2018

What Are Mantras and Why Do We Use Them In Yoga?

Mantras are a mindfulness tool you can add to your yoga and meditation practices that allow you to find stillness and clear your mind. Learn more here.
Ashton August | June 27, 2018

4 Go-To Breathing Exercises For Meditation, Stress Relief, and Overall Wellbeing

Breath is life and conscious breath work can relax, calm and restore. Learn 4 breathing exercises for meditation, stress relief and overall wellbeing here!
YogiApproved | June 24, 2018

2-Minute Funny Guided Meditation For B*tches That Don’t Meditate (Video)

If you've ever struggled with meditation, you will relate to this hilarious video. This funny guided meditation will make you laugh and smile. Enjoy!
beYogi | June 20, 2018

Feeling Stressed? Try These 5 Simple Ways to Put Your Mind at Ease

Sometimes we all get stressed and overwhelmed. It’s important to put your mind at ease so you can enjoy life, find peace and relax. Here are 5 simple ways.
Jennifer Landis | June 10, 2018

Found: 8 Useful Hacks to Make Mindfulness a Daily Habit

What if you could make mindfulness a habit? What if you could reduce the amount of your life that passes you by in the mindless cycle of routine?
William Ferro | June 2, 2018

Celebrate Summer With Walking Meditation – Here Are 4 Different Forms to Choose From

It's time to take your meditation practice outside and experience walking meditation! Learn 4 accessible forms of walking meditation that you can try today!
Ely Bakouche | May 3, 2018

Feeling Uninspired? Here’s How to Use Meditation to Boost Your Creativity

If you’re a creator of any kind and you’re feeling uninspired, you need to meditate! Here are 4 reasons meditation for creativity is so effective.
Elisha Thompson | April 25, 2018

Do These 6 Things Before Starting a Meditation Practice

Starting a meditation practice can be intimidating but it doesn't have to be. Learn how to meditate in six simple steps and start your meditation practice.
Nate Pritts | February 27, 2018

Poetry and Yoga: Find Present Moment Awareness With This Moving Meditation

The Yogi Poet Series is a place where poetry and yoga unite to bring you a sensory experience of movement, meditation, and mindfulness.
Morgan Casavant | February 13, 2018

This Meditation Studio On Wheels Is Taking Mindfulness to the Next Level

Meditation studios offer practitioners a comfortable space to sit, but now there's a new way to meditate. Check out this meditation studio on wheels.
Nate Pritts | February 6, 2018

Poetry and Yoga: Ground Yourself During Life’s Challenges With This Moving Meditation

The Yogi Poet Series is a place where poetry and yoga unite to bring you a sensory experience of movement, meditation, and mindfulness.
Krysta Shannon | February 2, 2018

Find Your Soulmate Mala! Everything You Need to Know About Choosing and Using Malas

A mala is a long strand of 108 beads that you can use to enhance your meditation practice. Here's what you need to know about choosing and using malas.
Amy Tenney | January 13, 2018

How I Calmed My Crazy With Mindfulness (And How You Can Too)

Meditation and mindfulness help you find more presence, peace and control in your daily life. Get relatable and applicable advice to start your practice.
Danielle McKee | December 13, 2017

In Search of Inner Peace? Try This Self-Guided Meditation Tutorial

We can often get caught up in negative thoughts and emotions. If you’re craving some inner peace, this self-guided meditation tutorial is for you!
YogiApproved | December 6, 2017

Jumpstart Your Day With This 10-Minute Guided Morning Meditation to Calm and Center Your Mind (Video)

Guided meditation brings us into the present moment. This guided morning meditation will center your mind and empower your day. You just need 10 minutes!
Erik Vienneau | November 1, 2017

Use These 10 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Meditation Practice (From a Meditation Guru)

Once you develop a steady meditation practice you may be wondering how to enhance your experience. Check out these 10 meditation tips from an expert.
Erik Vienneau | October 19, 2017

Learn How to Meditate in 5 Quick Steps (You Can Start Today!)

You may have heard of all the benefits of meditation, and now you're wondering how to meditate. Read this to learn how to meditate in 5 quick steps.
Sahara Rose | September 27, 2017

What Is the Best Meditation For Your Dosha? Take the Quiz to Find Out!

The best type of meditation for you could be based on your Dosha, characteristics based on Ayurveda. Take the quiz to find out your meditation style!
Meredith Osborne | September 20, 2017

5 Life-Changing Benefits of Meditation (Hint: The Key to Stress Relief)

Meditation is a practice that brings a wide range of health benefits. Discover the benefits of meditation on your brain and how it can improve your life.
Allie Flavio | September 5, 2017

Chakra 101: An Introduction to the 7 Chakras

There are 7 chakras total. Each chakra is represented by a specific color, shape, name, and location in the body. Learn all about the chakra system here.
Megan Johnson | August 24, 2017

Wands Out! Here’s How Harry Potter and Mindfulness Are Connected

Books are a powerful way to practice mindfulness. Find out how the Harry Potter series introduces mindfulness and supports us in our mindfulness practice.
RikkiLynn Shields | August 24, 2017

Stressed Out? Practice These 5 Self-Care Tips to Get Back on Track!

Self-care is an important ingredient to living a healthy, stress-free life. Explore these simple yet powerful self-care tips and enjoy the immense benefits.
YogiApproved | August 19, 2017

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.
Ashton August | August 16, 2017

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.
Erik Vienneau | August 8, 2017

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.
YogiApproved | July 19, 2017

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.
Danielle McKee | July 11, 2017

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.
Elena Savina | April 20, 2017

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.
Sachin Sharma | April 19, 2017

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.
Ashton Aiden | March 22, 2017

Breath of Fire Pranayama Tutorial to Cleanse + Energize Your Body

Pranayama, or conscious breathwork, is an amazing practice.
ZAQ | March 16, 2017

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.
Danielle McKee | February 27, 2017

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...
Ashton August | February 22, 2017

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...
Bridgette Miler | January 16, 2017

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...
Shay Grant | January 15, 2017

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.
YogiApproved | December 12, 2016

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...
Michelle Stanger | November 29, 2016

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...
YogiApproved | November 15, 2016

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 7, 2016

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...
Michelle Stanger | October 5, 2016

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...
Aimee Hughes | August 26, 2016

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?
Jacqlyn Grace Melita | August 14, 2016

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.
BookRetreats.com | August 9, 2016

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...
Teresa Mason | July 30, 2016

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.
Bess O'Connor | July 27, 2016

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.
Saiisha | July 25, 2016

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.
Aimee Hughes | July 12, 2016

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.
Kerry Fantelli | July 3, 2016

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.
Aimee Hughes | June 21, 2016

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.
Saiisha | June 16, 2016

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...
Aimee Hughes | June 10, 2016

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.
BetterYears.com | May 24, 2016

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.
Taylor Winn | May 16, 2016

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.
Josh Duvauchelle | May 11, 2016

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.
Kasia Litwinski | May 4, 2016

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.
Yogi Ram | February 17, 2016

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:
Mary Beth LaRue | February 14, 2016

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.”
Danielle McKee | February 9, 2016

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...
Grokker | February 5, 2016

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:
Joanne Moules | December 26, 2015

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.
Kari-Ann Levine | December 19, 2015

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.
YogiApproved | December 10, 2015

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 4, 2015

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 3, 2015

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.
Lacey Davis | November 18, 2015

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.
Alexa Erickson | August 22, 2015

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...
Johnny Jedi | July 8, 2015

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.
YogiApproved | June 24, 2015

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.
Alissa Lastres | April 30, 2015

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.
George Peele | April 22, 2015

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.
Sophia Herbst | April 8, 2015

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.
Yogi Ram | April 2, 2015

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.
Kari-Ann Levine | March 10, 2015

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.
Tyler | August 3, 2014

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!