Find balance in your breath and take a moment to pause and to exhale into the day. As we let go and head into a new week, set your intention for self-care, connection, and inquiry.
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Your Brain on Mindfulness Meditation
One of the most well-known and utilized tools in meditation and yoga is the practice of self-observation without judgment, or mindfulness. Swami Kripalu called self-observation without judgment “the highest form of spiritual practice.” Likewise, if you go to any yoga or meditation class you‘re likely to hear words like mindfulness and nonjudgmental awareness repeated throughout [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2013 by Thrive in Moment of Quiet
Moment of Quiet
Take a moment to pause, to breathe, and to exhale into the day. As we let go and head into a new day, set your intention for self-care, connection, and inquiry.
Posted on April 20th, 2013 by Thrive in Conscious Living
Transformation the Kripalu Way
When he first attended the Energy Intensive at Kripalu seven years ago, David Ellner was living the life he’d thought he always wanted. As the CFO of a $400-million entertainment corporation, he had money, power, prestige, and an impressive title. “I thought those were the goals,” he recalls. “I was working 60-hour weeks, and when [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2013 by Thrive in Moment of Quiet
Moment to Breathe
Take a moment to pause, to breathe, and to exhale into the day. As we let go and head into a new day, set your intention for self-care, connection, and inquiry.
Healing Trauma with Yoga
On Monday, December 16, 2012—exactly two days after the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary—I stood outside the doors of Pittsfield High School (PHS) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As I waited for the receptionist to buzz me in, I wondered what to expect in my high school yoga class that morning. I was still reeling. My niece [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2013 by Thrive in Moment of Quiet
Moment of Compassion
Take a moment to pause, to breathe, and to exhale into the day. Let this pause permit you to hold compassion for yourself and for others. As we let go and head into a new week, set your intention for self-care, connection, and patience.
Teaching Stability
“Welcome. As we begin, please close your eyes and consider this: From where do you draw stability in your life? Is it your faith or religion? Possessions? Relationships? Career? Experiences? Traditions? Where do you find stability when you’re on the mat? Is it possible that the stability that you find on the mat is connected [...]
Posted on February 26th, 2013 by Thrive in Meditation
Kripalu Presents Jack Kornfield: Why Meditate?
Meditation can be the doorway through which we enter into deeper connection with the world within us and around us. At the beginning of his five-day retreat at Kripalu, The Wise and Loving Heart, Jack Kornfield reflects on the benefits and blessings of meditation.
Posted on February 25th, 2013 by Portland Helmich in Meditation
Chanting, Awakening, and Kundalini Yoga: Snatam Kaur
It’s a simple fact, one that I often resist. If I want my life to change for the better, then I have to change. To expect more peace, joy, and love to enter my life without any shifts on my part is kind of like expecting that my meals are somehow going to taste different [...]
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