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10 Moves to Relax and Uplift Your Body
Feeling depleted, frenzied or stiff? 10 easy moves to relax your mind and uplift your energy
10 Instant Ways to Calm Yourself Down
If you’re easily overwhelmed, try these techniques to get centered.
10 Nighttime Routines for Peaceful Sleep
Stress is the new smoking. Studies have linked stress to countless health problems including insomnia, inflammation, obesity, Alzheimer’s Disease, anxiety, depression, asthma, hear…
5 Apps to Quiet Your Mind
From meditation to mental health, try these apps to achieve stillness on the run.
5 Free Apps for Creating Healthier Habits
Turn your smartphone into a tiny health coach with these apps for better nutrition, mindfulness, and gratitude.
5 Self-Love Exercises
When I was a therapist, I met with many clients who nurtured others but spent a minimal amount of time offering love or care to themselves. A former client I’ll call Dave worked h…
5 Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
Yoga is an incredibly powerful tool for stress management. Try this sequence of five poses to calm down, relax, and recenter yourself.
7 Self-Care Practices to Support You
Self-care is about nourishing ourselves mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
A Body at Rest: Restorative Yoga Triggers Your Relaxation Response
I was having coffee with an old friend when I found myself interrupted—repeatedly—by a series of “helpful” reminders and messages from my smartphone. With each blrrpt, …
A Hidden Path to Stress Relief
Most of us have been unconsciously clutching the pelvic floor so consistently, and for so long, that we’re not even aware we’re stuck in an unnaturally frozen and weakened state.
Aligning Yourself With Self
Begin to establish certainty and trust within yourself with this grounding guided meditation.
America's Most Spiritual Spa 2010: Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary
Even a first award requires a history. And any history of spiritual spas leads inevitably to the ancient Greek city of Epidaurus and the Temple of Aesculapius. As you may remember,…
Animal Dreamzzz
Kristen RaceAnyone who has ever suffered a bout of insomnia knows how frustrating it is to try to fall asleep when your mind is not ready; this is true not just for adults but also…
Calm Your Nervous System
Whether you are a first responder or simply stressed, try these affirmations to calm the nervous system.
Create Your Own Tea Ritual
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S. LewisBlending white and green teas with dried rose blossoms delights the eye and gives Meditati…
Cutting-to-the-Chase Meditation
This is my arrangement of a transcription of the conversation/dharma talk with Zen priest Sokuzan Bob Brown last Sunday at our local meditation group. Bob began by describing the b…
Easing Anxiety with Kava
New research indicates this South Pacific root—an ancient tonic for relaxation—can help calm frayed nerves.
Get Zen Fast: Reflexology You Can Do From Your Desk
Focus, revive, and energize yourself from your midday slump with these seven reflexology points.
Guided Meditation: Deeply Relax (Or Sleep) With Breathwork
This gentle, progressive breathwork will help your body return to the rest-and-digest state so you can calm down, detoxify, rest, clear your mind, soothe inflammation.
Guided Meditation: Pelvic Floor Wellness
This meditation involves gentle, relaxed breathing and some light muscular engagement.
Hello, Adrenals? It’s Your Brain
You’ve heard of the mind-body connection; here’s how it really works.
Helping Kids to Connect Body, Breath, and Mind
Peeking in on children’s yoga classes, I watch kids doing poses such as tree, snake, butterfly, or lion, while the instructor tells a story about the various ways these creatures b…
How Mental Stress Affects Your Heart
Constriction of tiny blood vessels, especially in women, can be deadly.
How to Find Calm Amid Chaos
Begin to lessen the overwhelming emotional response you may be experiencing to the smallest provocation.
How to Give to Others without Burning Out
Research suggests that self-care can reduce stress and exhaustion—if we know how to practice it.
Just Be: How Doing Nothing Sparks Creativity
“In terms of achievement, relaxing and ‘doing nothing’ can be extremely beneficial for nurturing creativity.”
Liquid Bells
Singing BowlsDamien RoseThe sound of Tibetan singing bowls might be described as complex purity. Within the sound that is heard when the bowl is struck, there exists the “anahat na…
Progressive Relaxation
In this mindfulness meditation class, Andrew Johnson will teach you to use full body relaxation techniques that will help you unwind and relax at will. If you enjoy this class, be …
Relax When Too Many Things Are Up in the Air
When life throws curve balls at Ryan Christensen, he juggles them — literally. A self-described depressed, obese teenager, Ryan practiced juggling while his parents’ marriage disso…
Relax Your Body, Relax Your Mind: Yoga of Synthesis #4
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Self-Care on the Fly
These ideas are corrective and sustainable, mainly because they don’t take so much time.
Seven Steps to a Stress-Busting Attitude
Stress affects our circulation, slows our digestive system, and even increases our blood sugar levels. Try these tips from naturopath Dr. Michael Murray to reduce stress and boost …
Shift Your Body, Change Your Mind
At the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we have been working for the last year to find ways to help our veterans returning from Iraq a…
Soothe Restless Leg Syndrome Naturally
For many, restless leg syndrome is more than an irritating twinge. The neurological condition, often considered a sleep disorder because the spasms can wake you up at night, makes …
The Ultimate De-Stressing Daily Routine
Put this anti-stress routine on your to-do list for a more zen approach to daily life.
Three Surprising Ways to Feel Less Busy
Tips for achieving relaxed productivity—and why you can't afford to ignore them.
Three Therapies for Wine and Water Lovers
HARBIN HOT SPRINGS: By far the greenest, least expensive, and most profound personal water experience happens at the Harbin Hot Springs, tucked into a valley about an hour north of…
Which Rest is Best?
A new study suggests cognitive fatigue can be relieved by playing “casual video games.”
Yoga and Tea
As long as I’ve been married to a yoga teacher, I’ve had trouble keeping milk in the refrigerator. Whenever she teaches, she makes her own blend of chai latte and carts it to her g…
