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Advanced 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training Details
Our 300-hour advanced program is a yoga intensive designed to nourish your practice, inspire your teaching, and expand your skill set. This immersion provides unique tools and valuable wisdom for both self-development and sharing with your community. Students have two...
Creamy Swiss Chard Leek and Potato Soup with Sweet Potato Dippers
Creamy Swiss Chard Leek and Potato Soup Yield 5 servings / Cooking time 45 min Ingredients: ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 ½ teaspoon garlic minced 1 cup onions, minced fine 2 cups leeks small diced ¾ cup chard stems, diced small 1 ¼ teaspoons salt ¼ generous teaspoon...
The Importance of Daily Ritual: Create a Sacred Morning Routine
Elements of predictability make the world go round. We know when the Sun will rise and set, and that we will need to nourish ourselves with food, water, breath, movement and sleep. We are creatures of habit; even the most spontaneous of us, the creatives, and all...
Why Take a Yoga Teacher Training Abroad at an Exotic Destination?
Why Take a Yoga Teacher Training Abroad at an Exotic Destination? by Alexander Berger, eryt500 @bergeryoga Through the trees, bird songs slowly stir you awake. The air, moist with morning dew, is clean, refreshing, and invites kind of positive state of health that...
Dark Chocolate Truffles Vegan Dessert Recipe
Vegan, Super-Antioxident-Rich, Pure Love Here is a beloved vegan dessert recipe from the hi-vibe retreat kitchen at The Sanctuary at Two Rivers in Costa Rica: Hand-Crafted Dark Chocolate Truffles-v10.0 Serves 8, (3 per person) Ingredients: 1 cup coconut milk (from a...
Which Yoga Teacher Training Should You Choose in May…Costa Rica or Tuscany?
Which Yoga Teacher Training Should You Choose in May...Costa Rica or Tuscany? Well done! You have made it this far navigating all of the options for 200 hour yoga teacher training immersion programs around the world. As you can imagine, there are many incredible...
MANTRA: Chanting to Higher Consciousness
A mantra practice can be done mentally (as we have already explored in the japa practice) or out loud. Chanting mantras is a form of yoga. It is different from singing in that you need zero musical talent or experience to benefit. Purely on a psychological level, when...
Japa Mala: Using Prayer Beads
Mala beads are beautiful and diverse. They can be made of any material; glass, stone, plastic, clay, metal, seed or wood. Cultures from around the world use them. Many people wear them and do not realize what they are for or where they come from; but they do make...
Nyasm: Moving Mudra
There are many facets to this meditation technique. What makes it unique is the way we move our hands through various mudras (energetic seals) in sync with breath and mantra. Choose a mantra to work with. On our 200 hour yoga teacher training immersion intensive in...