Brain Matters: Neuroscience and Yoga
What is neuroscience? According to the always helpful Oxford Dictionary, neuroscience is the branch of science that particularly deals with the structure and function of the brain and the nervous system.
What is neuroscience? According to the always helpful Oxford Dictionary, neuroscience is the branch of science that particularly deals with the structure and function of the brain and the nervous system.
Trigger Check: This topic may be a hard one for you to discuss for personal reasons. I want you to know it isn’t meant to offend or hurt; it is meant to promote curiosity within you. If you still not up for this week’s topic, no worries, I’ll see you next week.
Burn Out?! How’d I get here? Ok, quick recap, in last week’s post, I shared a burn out checklist to help you assess if you were experiencing burn out. Then I gave you a little breakdown on what burn out actually is by using facts from our friends at WebMD.
These days I’ve run across quite a few people going through it. I get it, life is hard right now and adulting requires we push through it. However, we can’t afford to burn out, cause let me tell ya, healing from it can be hard. So, this week I want us to pause and do a self-check.
Supplementary Support* can help you live your best life. Let’s talk about a few of our favorite supplements, but first a very important proviso!
Some of you may know that there are various yoga styles that you can practice. Each one with their own approach to the mat and benefits. I mention this to say, yoga is not a one size fit all endeavor.
You’ve probably read and heard it a million times, that meditation helps with stress. It’s true and what’s more it has a track record of being a successful stress reduction tool, and is scientifically proven.
Hot Yoga is an in-studio class where vigorous yoga is performed in a very hot and sometimes humid setting. The studio’s temperature is deliberately kept high for the duration of the class.
Who is a Yoga Teacher? First let me say a yoga teacher is not just someone who teaches great asanas. Borrowing from Indeed, a teacher is defined as a professional who shares their knowledge on a particular topic or set of topics with a group of students in hopes of advancing their knowledge.
Call it kismet, but I’m a big fan of practicing yoga at the first light of dawn, so our Ranch’s location is perfect for me. Why? Sunrise yoga has some truly awesome mind and body benefits for those who choose to wake up and kiss the sun. Let’s get into it!