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Search Results for: depression

How Yoga Helped Me Combat Depression & Heartbreaking Loss (Without Medication)

December 28, 2016 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Adrienne Smith, Power of Your OM It is estimated that by the year 2020, anxiety and depression will be the leading cause of death - over heart disease and over cancer. Yikes! While anxiety and depression can come from legitimate chemical imbalances that require medication to curb them, medical researchers are finding that cultivating awareness of our thoughts and the physical state of our being, in combination with medication (if necessary), will prove a better defense to anxiety and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, How Yoga Helped Me, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: anxiety, Breakdown, depression, Loss, patanjali, stress, yoga

There is No Space for Me. A Short Journey into Depression

April 6, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 8 Comments

Journey into depression

by Kara-Leah Grant On Sunday afternoon, lying on the grass outside under fluffy white clouds and a lazy blue sky, I felt the snaky tendrils of depression slither into my heart and settle in my being. One moment, everything was as it was. The next, I felt a heaviness of being, a reluctance to move or act or even be, a dragging at my insides, a rising of emotion. Usually the arrival of depression is not so noticeable. It sneaks up on me and I'm not aware until it's taken me down and I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: childhood, depression, emotions, parenting, yoga relieves depression

How Yoga Helped Me Emerge From the Darkness of Depression

February 27, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Astrid Vause I have been practicing yoga for a while now, in fact I am a yoga teacher, but it wasn't until I got sick that I fell deeply in love with this beautiful practice and it's healing powers. It was a warm sunny and vibrant day in my new home in Los Angeles and my children were building towers with wooden blocks and laughing as they toppled over. I sat on the floor with my knees tucked up to my chest and watched the crashing blocks, wincing as they hit the ground. I felt like I too had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: ashtanga, Crohns disease, depression, illness, suffering, yoga

Is Ancestral Trauma a Source of Modern Day Depression and Anxiety?

November 6, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

Can ancestral trauma be passed down through the generations?

by Kara-Leah Grant Since 2004 I have progressively healed myself through a combination of yoga, meditation and a wide variety of healing techniques. As I went through this process, my old coping techniques slowly but surely fell away - in the past I've used everything from drugs, alcohol, exercise and relationships to distract myself. Dropping these various distraction techniques was never easy. I didn't give up marijuana until I was pregnant. When life got really tough and I found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ancestral trauma, ben ralston, grief, healing, irritation

How Yoga Helped Me Overcome Depression

February 5, 2014 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Caren Baginski

by Caren Baginski I remember the first time I took an antidepressant. It was my third year of high school and I couldn't swallow pills, so I had liquid Prozac in a tiny cup. It didn't taste like anything, but during that time nothing did. I looked intensely at that drug for an hour before I took it, tears streaming down my face, feeling like a big fat failure. I remember the last time I took an antidepressant. I had moved to a new state, was on Zoloft, and weaned myself, thinking I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: mind body connection, science of yoga, yoga and the body, yoga body, yoga for anxiety, yoga for depression, yoga mind, yoga relieves depression, yoga science

What Causes Depression?

October 3, 2008 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

An artistic impression of depression

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat What causes depression? No one knows. No really - not even the medical profession. Do a quick google search and see what comes up. The best they can offer is a few theories of biological factors combined with environmental and behavioural issues. They can estimate how likely someone is to experience depression based on this, but they don't know the root cause. Makes it hard to heal something when you don't know what is causing it! So we DON'T treat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: depression

Interview with Carlos, Part 3

October 18, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

What to look for in a yoga teacher, By Cara Butler In this final instalment of conversations with my teacher, Carlos Pomeda, I asked what advice he would give someone seeking a ‘Teacher’ or ‘Guru’ in these modern yoga times.  Witnessing so many schools and lineages of yoga facing serious allegations and having terrible abuse exposed, I believe that discernment of your teacher is something to take very seriously!  With SO many yoga trainings on offer, with huge variance in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: Teacher training, Teacher/Student relationship, teaching yoga, yoga teacher ethics

Supporting Women through Prenatal Yoga & Beyond

May 14, 2021 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

An interview with KeiShana Coursey KeiShana is the course director of Contemporary Yoga's Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training starting in July 2021. This is a 100+ hour teacher training collaboration between Opti-mum and Contemporary Yoga and includes anatomy, physiology, asana, ayurveda and much, much more.  KeiShana brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this very special training having worked with many women on their childbirth journeys. In this interview, KeiShana talks about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Teacher Training Tagged With: Birth, pregnancy, prenatal, teacher, Training to become a Yoga Teacher, yoga

Journey to Wellbeing : How Yoga & Meditation helped me find the way

March 25, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Ta Moko

by Matt Calman, The Longest Day I regard it as a minor miracle I became a yogi. For as long as I can remember, in the four-decade-long pre-yoga phase of my life I was horribly inflexible, and unable to get within a foot of touching my toes. My main pastimes in my 20s included playing rugby and drinking beer with my teammates. In my mind, activities such as yoga and ballet dwelt at the opposite end of the spectrum from my modus operandi. If anyone had suggested to the younger me that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: anxiety, depression, meditation, wellness, yoga

Meeting Life As It Is: iRest Yoga Nidra & The Practice of Opposites

March 19, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una I used to be a perfectionist living life in black and white, ‘either/or’. My understanding of the depression I experienced, for instance, was to find a way to be happy. If sad, be happy. I mean, simple really. I also had a real beef with anger. And that beef was simply this: I really didn’t like it. I didn't like it when someone raised their voice or showed displeasure. I wanted it all to go away. I wanted calm instead. If angry, be calm. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices Tagged With: Dr Richard Miller, iRest, meditation, Opposites, Una Hubbard, yoga nidra

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