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Focus | Harnessing Your Mind’s Potential Social Culture

Focus | Harnessing Your Mind’s Potential

Focus: Intention with action. It is the force that is behind every single great achievement that the human race has accomplished. Focusing is honing the energy of your mind like a magnifying glass, transfixed just over the horizon of space and time. Your focus is like a battery, and whatever you focus on grows. If […]

Jul 6, 2014 Read →
[DIY] Music Junkie’s Yoga: Downward Facing Dog Social Culture

[DIY] Music Junkie’s Yoga: Downward Facing Dog

Festival season can result in a sore back due to spending countless hours on the road, dancing until the sun comes up, and only finding time to sleep in cramped cars, airplanes and tents. Downward Facing Dog (Sanskrit: Adho Mukha Svanasana) is an active pose that can greatly decrease such back pain by strengthening the entire back and […]

Jun 15, 2014 Read →
[DIY] Music Junkie’s Yoga: Pigeon Pose Social Culture

[DIY] Music Junkie’s Yoga: Pigeon Pose

I have read time and time again that humans store emotional tension in their hips, which is probably why Pigeon is one of my favorite yoga poses. As a highly emotional creature, I find a serene freedom within the deep hip-opener known as Pigeon Pose. I’ve recently been experiencing some emotional intensity with the onset […]

May 31, 2014 Read →
Taking Care of Yourself | Five Steps to Self Preservation Social Culture

Taking Care of Yourself | Five Steps to Self Preservation

It seems that the easiest thing to disregard in our day to day lives is too often ourselves. We become infatuated with what’s going on around us and not inside of us, letting external interference ruin our internal affairs. With summer showing no mercy (as usual), it’s important to take the time to realize that […]

Aug 31, 2013 Read →