Think about the calm, focused feeling you have leaving a yoga class. What if you could extend that feeling out to other parts of your life, and call upon it throughout the day?
This books aims to help you do just that.
Yoga is about so much more than just physical health. It’s about keeping both your body and your mind operating at their best. By incorporating yoga principles into your everyday life, you will dramatically improve your health and happiness.
This book is a collection of tips and ideas for living a happier, healthier, more stress-free and overall better life written from an evidence-based perspective, specifically for those interested in yoga. This book will not instruct you on yoga poses or the teachings of any particular yogi or style of yoga. Rather, it is designed to complement an individual’s existing yoga practice, and to help anyone interested in incorporating principles of yoga, such as meditation, gratitude and good nutrition, into their everyday lives in such a way that they see both instant and long-term improvements.
This is an easy, quick read (around 10,000 words) so that you can get back to the important things in your life. But don’t be fooled by the length: Each page is chock full of powerful, immediately actionable suggestions for improving your quality of life. It offers science-backed suggestions for reducing stress, maximizing your mental performance, and keeping emotions steady to help anyone live a better life. It explores:
Much of the information in this book originally appeared in Yoga Sanga magazine, and has been fully revised, expanded and updated.
This books aims to help you do just that.
Yoga is about so much more than just physical health. It’s about keeping both your body and your mind operating at their best. By incorporating yoga principles into your everyday life, you will dramatically improve your health and happiness.
This book is a collection of tips and ideas for living a happier, healthier, more stress-free and overall better life written from an evidence-based perspective, specifically for those interested in yoga. This book will not instruct you on yoga poses or the teachings of any particular yogi or style of yoga. Rather, it is designed to complement an individual’s existing yoga practice, and to help anyone interested in incorporating principles of yoga, such as meditation, gratitude and good nutrition, into their everyday lives in such a way that they see both instant and long-term improvements.
This is an easy, quick read (around 10,000 words) so that you can get back to the important things in your life. But don’t be fooled by the length: Each page is chock full of powerful, immediately actionable suggestions for improving your quality of life. It offers science-backed suggestions for reducing stress, maximizing your mental performance, and keeping emotions steady to help anyone live a better life. It explores:
- The power of gratitude, and the most important thing you can do to feel better instantly
- How spending time in nature improves physical and mental health, and what the surprising best substitute is when you can’t get away
- Which foods help to reduce stress and keep your emotions on an even keel, and why
- How to prevent colds and the flu, including specifically which nutrients have been shown to be most effective and in which foods they’re found in abundance
- How to set and stick to a goal of learning something new
- Exactly why clutter is so bad for mental health, and how to combat it
- How meditation boosts your brainpower, and which kinds of meditation will help you most in everyday life
- Why most resolutions to change fail, and what you can do to enact lasting change in your life
- The top five free guided meditation podcasts for expanding your practice
Much of the information in this book originally appeared in Yoga Sanga magazine, and has been fully revised, expanded and updated.
