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What is the Enneagram?  It is a tool used to determine personality types.  Each number, 1-9, has a defining trail and motivation.  The three areas are Heart, Head, and Gut.   Take the Enneagram quiz here to find out what you identify with! http://www.quiz-maker.com/Q6JNA61Q How does all this apply to yoga?  Yoga is also a tool to help regulate our emotions and physical energy.  Yoga breath and asana is very balancing so we can work with our personality to develop our strengths.  The charts below will help you determine the best yoga styles and poses for you! Gut Points 1, 8, 9 Peacemaker       Traits Values Yoga Practice Poses to Try Have little awareness of anger or try to avoid it and struggle to express displeasure. Feeling comfortable, melding into their environments or relationships with others in attempts to go with the flow. Cultivate qualities of strength and dept

How can yoga help bone health? We all want to be healthy, inside and out.  And we often think about our muscles but do we pay much attention to our bones?  Let's focus on bones today! Osteoporosis  is a bone disease that occurs when the body loses too much bone, makes too little bone, or both. As a result, bones become weak and may break from a fall.   Osteoporosis  means “porous bone.” Viewed under a microscope, healthy bone looks like a honeycomb. Yoga can  be beneficial for people with  osteoporosis . Studies have found that practicing  yoga can  actually increase bone density if done consistently and properly.  Yoga  also improves balance and flexibility, which  can  prevent falls and therefore prevent fractures.  Weight bearing exercises can help you regain bone mass because they work against gravity.  Bone health is increased if the yoga pose activates muscles and has any part of the body touching the ground.  Sounds like a yoga asana to me! Try the following yoga poses to in

In these days of stress and uncertainty, we can all benefit from yoga breathing practices.  Yoga breathing has been found to lower stress and improve cardio vascular functioning.  It improves lung function and respiratory endurance, helpful in the time of a respiratory pandemic! It lowers the heart rate and promotes well-being. So, why would not take a few minutes daily to breathe? Here are four of my favorite breathing practices: Ujjayi Breathing-  Alternate Nostril Breathing- Counted Breathing- Breath Retention Practice-  Try some of these today and let me know how you feel.   "For breath is life, and if you breathe well, you will live long on the earth." Get started the right way with Yoga! Download for FREE “Top 10 List for Yoga Beginners.” Link  https://yogatraveler.net/top-10-list-for-yoga-newbies

The Essential Guide to the Sahasrara (Crown) Chakra "We shall not cease from exploration  And the end of all our exploring  Will be to arrive where we started  And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot What is the Chakra system?  Chakras are the energy sources that are placed in seven different points on the spinal column.  They are responsible for disturbing the life energy and can get out of balance. But yoga poses can help bring the chakra's into balance.  Come with me on a seven week Chakra Journey into energy balance! The Crown Chakra energy is focused at the top of the head and is associated with the color purple and our understanding. Do you find yourself having:* Dissociation from the body Spiritual addiction Confusion Over-intellectualization Living "in your head" Disconnection from the spirit Excessive attachments? Then you may have too much energy around your Crown Chakra Do you sometimes have:* Spiritual cynicism A closed mind Learning diff