Author - Cora Wen

Cultivating Balance

Buddhist, Healthy Living, inspiration, Personal, Seasonal Living, Uncategorized

Yoga for Balance & Self-Care is a restorative practice to help regain and reaffirm a connection to yourself. Leave class feeling calm, centered, clear and able to stand in a grounded, balanced way. Thursdays at The Mindful Body,…

Baci Ceremony – Calling the Spirits

Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Featured, inspiration, Myths & Legends, Prayer, Stories and Tales, Yoga travel

BACI ບາສີ Baci is an important ceremony in Lao culture, a ritual to celebrate important events and occasions, like births, marriages, monkhood, travel, or ill health and to honour guests. Baci can take place all year, any day…

Rest is the Story

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons, Uncategorized

ENTERING AUTUMN As we enter the Autumn season, the air becomes cool and crisp, and the leaves are starting to turn. Autumn brings the harvest of crops, shorter days and preparation for winter. It is a time of ripening, withering, and completion.…

Happy Hamstrings are Healthy Hamstrings

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Are Your Hamstrings REALLY Tight? Ever wonder why your hamstrings feel tight even though you stretch them? If the answer to tight muscles is stretching them, then wouldn’t stretching hamstrings make them more flexible? If you’re finding that…

My Favourite Bhagavad Gita भगवद्गीता

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Bhagavad Gita भगवद्गीता Chapter 6 ~ Samkhya Yoga The Science of Self Realisation In chapter six Lord Krishna reveals astanga Yoga, and the exact process of practicing such yoga. He explains in detail the difficulties of the mind…

Welcome the Fire Rooster

Chinese, Myths & Legends, Stories and Tales, Yoga travel

Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Since it is not associated with any particular religion or people, the New Year is a universal celebration. This year, over 18% of the world’s…

100-Hr Certification – Art & Science of Restorative Yoga

Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Teacher Training, Workshops & Intensives, YB LAB, YTT

Art & Science of Restorative Yoga Better health and wellbeing in older age is critical to us personally, and as a society. World demographics have changed and we will soon have more older people than children, which will…

Seasonal Detox and Cleanser

Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Featured, Healthy Living, Personal, Seasonal Living, Seasonal Medicine, Seasons

Since childhood, my family has used herbal elixirs and tonics to help heal the body and mind, and I remember my beloved Grandmother making strong ginger root tea for menstrual cramps or snow fungus and goji berries for…

Balancing a Yin Yang Sheep

Chinese, Featured, Seasonal Living, Seasons

Wishing you continued happiness in this Chinese New Year of the Goat-Sheep! We have welcomed the Yin Wood Sheep year in 2015.  It is also called Year of the Goat or Ram in the Chinese Astrology calendar. Is…

Props 101 – Tools for Freedom of Alignment

-WEBINAR, Teacher Training, Workshops & Intensives, YB LAB, YB LAB Video, Yoga, YTT

(*YBLAB1000 Requirement) SATURDAY 10:30a – 11:30a PDT Live Streaming May 17, 24, 31 Download Available This is an Asana Practice class. Please bring props for Practice. As we move into the future with Yoga Therapy as a complementary…