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How Yoga Supports Mental Wellness and Inner Peace
In today's fast-paced world, mental wellness has become a crucial topic. Even before the COVID pandemic, the United States had a mental...
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2 days ago4 min read
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Effort and Ease
Finding the Sweet Spot: When to Push & When to Surrender on Your Yoga Mat (and Beyond) Yoga, at its core, is a practice of balance. We...
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Mar 294 min read
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Can Yoga make you feel Powerful?
In Amy Cuddy's Ted Talk (see the abridged version below) she talks about how our own body language determines not only how we appear to...
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Mar 22 min read
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Yoga Should be Easy
Embracing the Simplicity of Yoga: It Should Be Easy and Relaxing In the modern world, where stress and hustle are constants, yoga stands...
claybrookyoga
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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My origin story
I have been thinking a lot about my origin story. What exactly happened in my life that led me to bring Yoga and meditation to our...
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Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Teaching Yoga to Children
Embracing Calm and Confidence In an increasingly fast-paced world, children face stress and distractions from a young age. Yoga, an...
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Nov 1, 20242 min read
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Why you should LOVE your body --- no matter what
"I have a perfect body, but sometimes I forget. I have a perfect body because my eyelashes catch my sweat. Yes they do!" -Regina...
claybrookyoga
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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Why do people use Props in Yoga?
I am a person who LOVES to use Yoga props to enhance my practice. It not only brings the floor closer to me in forward folds and bends,...
claybrookyoga
Jul 31, 20242 min read
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The Key to Balance: Mind and Body
I have had several students ask about how they can improve their balance. Balance is one of the areas that we have to keep working on as...
claybrookyoga
Jul 30, 20243 min read
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Un-Hunch Your Back: A Yoga Workshop for Standing Tall and Banishing the Slouch
Here is a photo of me from 2009. I just had my second child and I had a constant backache. I mean look at me... I am totally hunched...
claybrookyoga
Jul 7, 20242 min read
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Women’s Night of sharing, healing, and breathing
On Sunday, April 7th at 7:45, Esti, LCSW-C and Julie, Yoga Teacher are gathering together local Jewish women - regardless of Jewish...
claybrookyoga
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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New Year New Offerings January 2024 Message
What a year it has been. There have been some really beautiful moments and some really scary and ugly moments as well. I appreciate this...
claybrookyoga
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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The Benefits of Yoga Mobility for Your Body and Mind
mo·bil·i·ty [mōˈbilədē] noun the ability to move or be moved freely and easily: I LOVE focusing on the concept of mobility--aka movement....
claybrookyoga
Feb 1, 20243 min read
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The “Four Worlds”: A Jewish Approach to Nourishing Yourself
I walked out of my kitchen depleted and exhausted. I couldn’t imagine that guests were coming in less than an hour. It was Friday...
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Nov 10, 20231 min read
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