Mental Health Archives

How to use various practices including yoga and self-care to support mental health and wellbeing.

3 Ways Yoga Can Help You Maintain Sanity During a Lockdown

In these crazy unpredictable times, it can be so hard to maintain our normal sense of Self. We feel uncertain, scared, isolated, and alone. It’s easy to lose our way and start to think negative thoughts. This ends up becoming a rabbit hole of depression, anxiety, and fear. There is…

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January 10, 2021

Healthy Living / Mental Health / Mindfulness / Self-Care / Self-Care Tips

Mindfulness for Seniors – Infographic

Growing older can be a challenge for some people in that they are aware it has to happen because that is natural but it still presents fears and anxieties for people. Growing older is, of course, a privilege especially if one has one’s health. The latter years in a person’s…

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November 9, 2020

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Ways Love Is Good for Mental Health and Wellbeing

What constitutes “good mental health” – and what does love have to do with it? Well, for a beginning, if you are looking to maintain good mental health, then chances are that you’ve been told, time and again, to lean on those you love most. The people near and dearest…

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August 29, 2020

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Yin Yoga Guide: All You Need to Know About Its Purpose, Benefits, and How to Practise it

Yin Yoga is increasingly practised by yogis and is now a staple in many yoga studios. Nonetheless, most students are familiar with the more "yang" practices – the active yoga classes such as Hatha, Vinyasa, Power Yoga which focus on dynamic movement to build heat and may not have tried…

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August 24, 2020

Healthy Living / Mental Health / Self-Care / Self-Care Tips

5 Tips For Getting In Shape When You Are Depressed

Depression is the leading cause of mental disability in the world. 10% of the adults in the global population have this mental illness. Its symptoms include fatigue, laziness, isolation, loss of energy, hopelessness, helplessness, anger, frustration, irritability, reckless behavior, unexplained pains, major problem concentrating, and so much more. Many people…

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July 2, 2020

Mental Health / Self-Care / Stress and Anxiety / Yoga / Yoga therapy

7 Powerful Connections Between Yoga And Mental Health

There's something truly amazing about what yoga can do to your state of mind. I personally have suffered anxiety throughout my early twenties which is a result of things that were outside of my control, alongside some poor life choices. In order to bring my life back to some form…

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June 12, 2020

Home Yoga Practice / Meditation / Mental Health / Self-Care / Self-Care Tips / Yoga

[Updated 2020] 7 Best Meditation Cushions to Prevent Back Pain During Meditation

Sitting down directly on the ground during meditation, without the aid of any meditation cushions can be rather uncomfortable and sometimes painful for me. My lower back protests quite a bit due to my history with lower back pains, my sitting bones hurt after a while, and my calves go…

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May 15, 2020

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Morning Yoga Routine for Beginners – Energize and Wake Up!

https://youtu.be/w4nSOmw3tFQ Watch on YouTube If you are unable to watch the video above, you can access it on YouTube here. Rise and shine yogis! Let's start the day with a solid morning routine that helps to get you focused, centred and energized so that you can achieve what you've set…

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December 31, 2019