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  • Bikram Yoga Posture #1: Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama Series

    Posture #1 Standing Deep Breathing Pranayama Series The first Bikram posture is Standing Deep Breathing – Pranayama series. This breathing exercise settles you into a relaxed, calm and controlled mindset, heart rate and breathing pattern. The focused breathing prepares you for the rest of the ninety minute practice by recentering your focus inwardly and brings…

  • Introduction to Bikram Yoga

    Bikram Yoga is the twenty-six posture sequence selected and developed by Bikram Choudhury, widely popularized in the early 1970s. Synthesized from traditional Hatha Yoga techniques, this posture sequence systematically moves fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of the body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as nature…

  • Set Goals to Beat Exhaustion

    You’re exhausted. You’re tired of it, all of it. You just want to sleep all day and maybe take a bath. You can’t go on like this. There’s just too much on your plate. How is signing up for more work going to help you beat exhaustion?

  • I have a broken foot. So what?

    I still can’t believe I banged up my toe so badly. I’m dying to go for a run. I can barely walk but I almost went for a jog around the block tonight. My patience is wearing thin but self-control has kept me at bay, for now. I’m fast approaching my wits end without the…

  • No Sleep For Freedom

    It’s 10pm Sunday night and I’ve been awake since 10am Saturday morning. That’s 36 hours of mind-numbing coding and market research. I’ve been nod napping since noon and have nearly fallen out of my chair twice. I’m in bed now so we should be good to go for another 24 hours or so. All kidding…

  • The Virtues of Hardship

    Primarily in America there is an overwhelmingly widespread belief that everything should be easy, and that we should always be happy.  While I’m no antagonist of happiness, I do think that obsessing over it is actually counter-productive to achieving it, and also leads people into some otherwise easily dodged traps, foolish decisions, and unreasonable expectations.