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Oil Pulling – What’s All the Fuss About?

April 8, 2014 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Oil-pulling - nothing to fear here!

by guest author Kate McLeay Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic health tradition for oral hygiene, detox and rejuvenation. I have been doing this practice daily for just over three years now with many benefits and really love it! I often recommend oil pulling to students and friends and keep getting asked to write down some directions. So here goes… How I got into Oil Pulling As I'm an A type personality, after I received a brief email about oil pulling from my Mum’s wise white witch … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: Ayurveda, bad breath, chronic illness, cleanse yoga, detox, headaches, healing, health, oil Pulling. health, relief, sinus

Three minute chakra testing? Bullshit. Beware the hype

November 15, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 85 Comments

Chakra test fake?

by Kara-Leah Grant Editor's note: I wrote this article four years ago, and a few months ago, received an email from Karina Swenson, Director of Communications at Mindvalley, who publishes this test, saying: "A few years ago, you reviewed our Chakra Healing Quiz on your website. We found your review recently and appreciate you for being so honest.  The quiz at the time was on an old site and was broken, and we’d love for you to review the new quiz." I've since gone back to the website, taken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga in the Media Tagged With: carol tuttle, chakra, fake, healing, mindvalley, test

Free your pelvis and the rest will follow

July 9, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 12 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Years of yoga practice and yoga teaching has taught me that our ability to freely move our pelvis is a key aspect to unlocking our spines, and releasing any chronic low back issues or holding patterns. I've also learned that it's not always the muscles, ligaments and tendons that are locking our pelvis in place. It can be our minds. Yes, the psyche can affect the way that our pelvis moves. Fortunately, over time, yoga practice can unlock both the physical body and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Physical Practices, Practices, Reviews Tagged With: back, degenerative disc disease, healing, practice, spinal fusion, spine

Sometimes Yoga doesn’t have the answer

June 27, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Ok, I admit it, I'm the first person to think that Yoga is a cure-all. Just practice yoga regularly and it will sort out your back issues, your depression, your relationship problems and those last five kilos you just can't shift. It's the wunder-drug of the next generation. Except when it isn't. I've been practicing Yoga - of the physical kind - for about 12 years now. And yes, it's done amazing things for my back. I was living with chronic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: annis parker, bio-energetics, chronic pain, healing, spinal fusion, spine

Learning to wait, and wait, and wait some more

November 10, 2011 by Guest Author 4 Comments

by guest author Nadine Fawell, a Melbourne-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author of the yogAttitude cards. She is most interested in yoga's power to heal body, mind, and spirit. I was very sick a while back. I was too ill to leave the house for three weeks, and, two moths later, I am still coughing. When I went to the Doctor, she told me, “It’s a virus. I can’t do anything for you: go home and sleep it off.” I am, essentially, convalescing. I can’t walk too far or too fast, I get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: healing, illness, nadine fawell, recuperating, yogAttitude cards

What Can Yoga Do For Me Physically, Mentally and Emotionally?

December 13, 2008 by Kara-Leah Grant 13 Comments

by Kara-Leah, Yoga is the science of life. It is thousands of years old, and with regular practice, yoga can bring you back into balance physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. What does this mean? It means that no matter what issue you are dealing with in your life, yoga can help you manage it. And increasingly around the world, the scientific and medical world is doing the research to back this up. Spend some time digging around on the 'Net, and you'll uncover more and more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classics, How Yoga Helped Me, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: goal setting, healing

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