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6 Simple Ways to Increase Your Happiness Now

You deserve to be happy, so follow these simple steps to ensure that you’re happy in the good times, through the hard times, and most importantly, right now!
Eirinn Norrie | June 29, 2019
15 Simple Yet Powerful Ways to Improve Your Relationships

We are social beings so we should always be working to keep our relationships alive and well. Here are 15 powerful ways to improve your relationships.
Alissa Lastres | April 8, 2019
Follow These 4 Tips to Create a Home Yoga Practice For Yourself

Having a home yoga practice is an excellent way to cultivate a consistent yoga practice on your terms. Follow these 4 tips to start a yoga practice at home!
Melissa Nordin | May 24, 2018
Use These 8 Wellness Tools To Be Your Best Self

Here are eight amazing products to support your healthy lifestyle and help you reach your personal best in all areas of your life.
YogiApproved | February 19, 2018

Why You Need to Ditch the Self-Help Books Now (and What to Do Instead)

With an abundance of knowledge (self-help, success literature, life hacks, etc.) there are still many out there who are frustrated with the results.
Ashton Aiden | April 28, 2017
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
Find Ways To Better Yourself: A Guide to the Niyamas

The Niyamas, a Sanskrit word meaning “observances,” asks us to dive deeply into who we are in these five areas: purity, contentment, self-discipline, self-study and surrender.
Alisha Leytem | August 19, 2016
What Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton Teaches Us About Tragedy, Faith, and Finding Life’s Purpose

If you’re feeling lost, or sensing that there’s something unique and powerful that only you were born to do, have patience and follow Bethany’s example.
Aimee Hughes | August 9, 2016
Cameron Diaz Talks How to Live Authentically and Find Contentment (Video)

We’ve all seen her beautiful smile in movies. We’ve fallen in love with her in Charlie’s Angels or...
Ashton August | August 1, 2016
How to Calm Your Mind and Cultivate More Presence

Hopefully, seeing the distinction between the thinking mind and the observing mind will help you recognize some of the unhealthiness that occurs in your head.
Danielle McKee | June 30, 2016
The Four Agreements: How to Achieve Your Personal Best On and Off the Mat

Yoga is a vehicle for change. And so is The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Change happens even...
Lara Falberg | June 26, 2016
8 Ways College Students Can Cope With the Post-College “Real World”

When you just graduated college, there are a lot of "what if's" surrounding where to go from here. Learn 8 ways college students can cope post-graduation.
Teresa Mason | June 25, 2016
Your Mind is a Garden and Your Thoughts Are the Seeds (Poem)

Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy,...
Kerry Fantelli | June 12, 2016
How to Regain Your Youthful Confidence (Poem)

When do we lose that beautiful pride? Not the ego-driven kind, but the free-spirited, self-loving kind. The one...
Kerry Fantelli | June 5, 2016
How to Become an Artist of Your Soul and Live from a Place of Possibility

There are several easy ways you can become a true artist of your soul and live from a place of possibility. Here are 3 ways that you can awaken your fullest potential:
Aimee Hughes | May 19, 2016
10 Reasons You Should Cancel Your Cable TV Today

Is there a benefit to ditching cable tv and its 300+ channels? We say YES! And after reading this list, you may agree that there really isn’t anything glamorous about TV at all.
Stephanie Stanley | May 17, 2016
10 Hacks for Cultivating Daily Mindfulness

It can be challenging to stay grounded and mindful with an open heart when we are bombarded with negativity as soon as we leave our mats. Mindfulness is the key. Here are 10 tips to stay mindful throughout your day.
Maria Moscato | May 13, 2016
4 Spring Cleaning Tips to Detox Your Mind and Body

Use these four tips to cleanse yourself of common toxins for a happier, healthier life:
Josh Duvauchelle | April 27, 2016
Why You Must Doubt Your Doubt

Self doubt is thoughts that don't support us in our capabilities. Our ability to grow is our ability to move beyond doubtful thinking.
Mary Beth LaRue | March 22, 2016
If You Want to Be Happy, Science Says You Should Start Here

When you focus enough attention, motivation and words on a particular goal, you are actively working to make your dream a reality.
Jessie Wren | March 11, 2016
Two Inspiring Poems for Self-Love and Positivity

You don’t see Sun yell at Clouds, “Hey you! Get out of my way! You are blocking my beauty, my rays of power! MOVE DAMN IT!”
Kerry Fantelli | March 5, 2016
An Interview With Kathryn Mitchem – Thriving Through Life’s Transitions

Meet Kathryn Mitchem, life coach, yoga instructor and loving mom. In this interview you'll learn how to live Your Best Life starting today using the following insights from the interview:
Erik Vienneau | March 1, 2016
How to Gain Control Over YOUR Life (Video)

Gain control over that which is currently in control of you. And find out where the center of your power lies.
Yogi Aaron | January 4, 2016
5 Tips to Cultivate Self-Compassion

Self-compassion is a topic of discussion in the partner yoga classes that I teach to support women emotionally, mentally and physically.
Denita Austin | November 25, 2015
6 Signs You Are NOT at Peace (and Advice on How to Get There)

May we all find each other in the same place of Peace, Love, and Eternity regardless of how we got there.
Ashton Aiden | November 18, 2015
What Jim Carrey Explains In 1 Minute Will Change Your Life Forever (Video)

Not only is Jim Carrey a fantastic actor , comedian, and artist, but he is also a deeply wise man. During a commencement speech, he gave the graduates the most useful advice anyone could give.
Johnny Jedi | October 31, 2015
How to Remove “Quit” From Your Vocabulary & Your Life

Quitting is a defeating experience that leaves you feeling like the world is against you. Surrendering is relinquishing the false notion of the ego’s power and trusting the true power of the Universe. Sometimes it takes greater strength to let go. Accept the answer you get from the Universe and just breathe.
Jessie Wren | October 15, 2015
8 Easy Ways to Feed Your Soul

Feeding your soul by spending time outdoors, listening to music, unplugging, indulging, expressing yourself, getting nostalgic, reading, & seeking thrills.
Kelsey Struble | October 6, 2015
6 Steps to Plan and Achieve Your Life Goals

You can achieve your life goals. Realism, much like fear, is just an artificial construct of our minds that is based on a conceptualized notion of the future.
Enrico Fioranelli | October 1, 2015
5 Ways to Create Balance Between Your Work and Personal Life

Finding work/life balance is no different. There is no perfectly prescribed algorithm, no all–encompassing equation that informs us of the exact parameters we place around that which we call work and that which we call play. Part of the dance itself is the swaying back and forth from moment to moment to find the rhythm that feels right for us.
Kari-Ann Levine | September 13, 2015