More than just a calm mind: 4 overlooked benefits of corporate mindfulness

From reducing reactivity and fostering smoother relationships to building resilience and enhancing organizational effectiveness, mindfulness has the potential to transform the way we work and interact with each other.

Navigating the new year: setting intentions in a shaky world

Even in a shaky and turbulent world, we can recognize and resort to the tools of mindfulness and compassion; not to silence the pain but to center and ground ourselves, and to care for our own emotions.

Aliveness meditation: Resourcing in difficult times

Our current reality may often feel overwhelming and beyond control. And while we may not gain outer control by meditating, we may find ease and joy. Listen to this 5-minute aliveness meditation.

Breath and bandhas: aliveness and sustanaibility

Breath and bandhas: aliveness and sustanaibility

Once we learn to use a fuller capacity of our body space and expand the breath, we not only create space for physical release to happen, but we also open up the mind.

Ultimately, creating space in the mind is one of the purposes of yoga practice.

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Look what I’ve found! Gratitude

Look what I’ve found! Gratitude

Every single day, I pause for a moment, and say thank you. I wake up at dawn, walk out of my room and look up at the sky studded with a myriad of bright stars. In this moment, you already sense that morning is soon to arrive, that the Sun will come up in a few hours,...

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This is how we yoga for refugees

This is how we yoga for refugees

More than a dozen of us got together in the Garden of Philosphy on 13 September to do yoga for refugees who have been streaming into Europe. Enjoying the bright sun and warm breeze, we flew through asanas surrounded by amazing views, and stilled our minds with...

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Yoga is … the beauty in all things

Yoga is … the beauty in all things

How blissful and complete it feels when you manage to fully grasp a moment and see the beauty. To me, this is what yoga is ... without seeking it, just allowing contentment and beauty to shine into your life. Yoga doesn't happen only on the mat but it takes place in...

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