Our Top 10 Yoga Tips
As you journey into your yoga practice you’re likely to sometimes feel a bit out of your comfort zone. It’s completely normal and to help you through it I’m sharing the 10 most helpful things I’ve learned along the way. [...]
What Is Yoga: A Brief Intro
A huge part of what we do at 5EW is yoga and as more and more of you are heading into the studio I thought now would be the perfect time to talk about the power of yoga, starting with [...]
Where Life and Yoga Collapse into One
I sat down with 5EW yogini Kathy Peterson for a chat about life and yoga and where the two meet head-on. If you could only do one pose for the rest of your life, what would it be? Probably downward [...]
Is Yoga The Only Solution?adaptation of Yoga
Pre-reading: the story of my life-changing journey to India and my 3,000 word paper on the benefits of yoga. I have practiced Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga for 6 years and during that time I have learned a lot about my body. [...]
So, How Does Yoga Really Work?
The tradition of yoga has advanced humankind for thousands of years. Originating from India, the lineage of yoga can be traced back to the Vedic Tradition, around 5000 B.C.E. Then, ancient rishis and sages would practice simple forms of yoga, [...]
Yoga: A Westerner’s Journey to The Source
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Five rings of the bell. It’s 5 am at Anand Prakash Ashram in the holy city of Rishikesh, India. My roommate stumbles to the bathroom and turns on the light so we don’t fall back [...]
3 New Reasons to Embrace Yoga
1. Learn Real Patience Not the kind where you look at your watch every two seconds, grit your teeth and bare it in silence, but the other kind of patience – an eternal patience that doesn’t seek the approval of [...]
The Science Behind: Why You Can’t Switch Off
Ever heard the term Allostatic Load? Not many people have. It refers to the cumulative effect of stress from the many different avenues of our lifestyle. Essentially it means wear and tear, and the heavy cost on our body from [...]
Is Busy the New Black?
So you run into an old friend you haven’t seen for a while on your lunch break at work. You make small talk but the general gist of the conversation goes something like this: Friend: “Hey, haven’t seen you for [...]
