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Five Yoga Poses For Rock Climbers
Rock climbing is a skill that requires strength, flexibility, balance, and full-body awareness. Whether you’re climbing outdoors or bouldering in a gym, training for the climb is just as important as climbing itself. Why Yoga? Yoga draws your attention inward and helps you fine-tune the muscular engagements needed to hold our body in place. These micro-adjustments made in your yoga practice, are the same adjustments needed to maneuver your way through a tough climb. Add that to all the balancing, strengthening, and stretching that yoga does for you, and you’ve covered your bases in terms of climbing skills. In general, climbers should focus on yoga poses that strengthen shoulders, core, and hips. Whether…
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Why You Should See an Ayurvedic Practitioner
This post contains affiliate links. Read the Disclaimer for more details. Ayurveda is a holistic medicine that seeks towards balancing the body through proper diet and routine. While Ayurveda can treat and cure certain ailments, the intention of Ayurveda is to maintain balance in our body and avoid sickness in the first place. If you’re interested in learning more, check out my post about the Ayurvedic doshas. As a yoga teacher and practitioner, I’ve always been interested in the practice of Ayurveda. So much so in fact, that I hope to attend the school of Ayurveda in California so I can become a legitimate practitioner. In the meantime, I’ve been doing my best to…
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How To Balance Your Root Chakra: Muladhara
How to move into the first chakra, find your grounding, and build stability for the remaining chakra centers. If you checked out my post last week then you know I’ve got a little theme going. Last week I talked about the first chakra and how it correlates to your energetic wellbeing. This week, instead of diving into the second chakra, I wanted to share how you can balance out the energy of your root chakra or, muladhara. Root Chakra Review The root chakra is crucial to finding balance overall in the chakra system. So it’s important to understand how to tap into its energy. No, you don’t have to be a yoga guru to do…
