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24/02/2022

A great listen! 🎧

09/02/2022

Small reminders to keep working towards your goals in 2022! ✨

24/12/2021

Christmas Eve ✨❤️

Not a creature was stirring after these nighttime stretches… 🐭💤

Ease yourself into a deep slumber tonight with help from Reset with Megan and Bustle!

Adding stretching in to your wind-down routine is an excellent way to help calm the body from its daily excitement or stressors. Grab a family member, roomie, pet, or embrace this act of self-care solo and stretch your way right to sleep💤

Forward Fold⭐️
Beginning in downward dog, walk your hands slowly towards your feet as you make your way to a standing forward fold. Allow your arms to hang heavy with your head, you can grasp the elbows if that is comfortable for you. This one is great for neck and back tension, releasing the shoulders, and stretching out the calves and can also be done leaning your seat against a wall.

Legs up the Wall⭐️
You can even do this one in your bed! Lie flat on your back with your butt touching the wall, lift your legs placing them onto the wall, heels making contact and allowing your head and neck to relax. This one is great for circulation, releasing the hamstrings, and easing the lower back.

Supta Baddha Konasana⭐️
Lay flat on your back with your knees bent and then allow the knees to gently stretch out to opposite sides with the souls of the feet together. Bring one hand to your heart and one to your belly. You can place some pillows under your knees to help you relax here if you like. This restorative posture is great for helping to relieve stress and providing constructive rest.

Tell us about your favorite nighttime routine rituals in the comments and then visit the link below for all 12 nighttime stretches!

https://yogamedicine.com/if-you-want-to-fall-asleep-more-quickly-these-12-nighttime-stretches-can-help/

01/12/2021

Simple mindset shifts ✨

29/11/2021

A little reminder for the start of your week 🖤

: First I must show myself kindness before I can gift it to others.

Offer yourself some kindness today, just as you might offer it up to a good friend. Sending love to our YM family this Sunday. xoxo

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17/11/2021

17/11/2021

It’s all about that self-care ❤️

Do you ever feel like you are running on fumes with the check engine light on?

Not to worry if this speaks to you, after we dig into the research ↓ we’ve got just what you need to refill that tank☺️

Our bodies are meant to adapt to stressful situations and for the most part, they can achieve this goal. It isn’t until the stress becomes too great or too persistent that we can actually come to a place where our bodies begin to manifest that stress in ways that affect our overall health and well being.

This is called our allostatic load - the consequences, the accumulation of stress can present across individuals in a vast variety of symptoms. These symptoms however, stem from our two main response systems to stress…

The Nervous System response and The Endocrine System response - leading to things like increased blood pressure & heart rate, a constant state of fight or flight, disrupted sleep, sleepwalking, weight gain, and so forth…

So when you think you’ve hit this point, what can you do?

Offer your body a variety of mindfulness practices to try and ease the stress and find your reset button.

For some, getting on the mat can feel a chore, while others crave a long sweaty practice. Some crave restorative and some find restorative to be too calm for their very active minds at the moment.

Valerie Knopik Yoga Medicine® Therapeutic Specialist, PhD and E-RYT500 has crafted ‘The Burnout Series’ to help amend those overwhelming feelings of being burnout, in whichever way you might need.

“Some who will want meditation and some who will want flow. This series encourages some exploration to determine what suits you best when managing and healing from burnout and chronic stress, yet is simple enough to take thinking out of the equation if you're finding that you cannot focus on making a decision. My hope is that you can use this series to support and heal, to revive, reflect, and refresh YOU.”

You’ll begin this series with a brief introduction and then be swept away into a place of ease through her stress reducing curation of practices.

To get started click the link here > https://practice.yogamedicine.com/video_library/burnout-series-introduction/ 🙏 and just a quick reminder to remember to grant yourself ease and forgiveness through the process, a positive being starts from within ❤️

09/09/2021

This article left me feeling exposed 😅 never knew how much I needed a cord organizer until today!

When I’m scrambling to meet a writing deadline, the condition of my work environment almost always takes a backseat to the work itself. As long as I get everything done, I figure, who cares how messy my home office or my desk look? Do you do this, too? If the answer is yes, you may be missing an o...

23/08/2021

I’ve been quiet on the gram because I’ve been working HARD in real life 🤓 and I am so excited for what’s to come this Fall ✨
More details soon but don’t you just LOVE when the work syncs up directly with your daily health and wellness practices? 🧘‍♀️🙏💫

What have I been up to? Onboarding new clients, creating massive amounts of content for current clients (+ myself 😉), developing + redefining my company’s branding, and getting myself organized as hell to be able to continue with all of this growth!

Feeling so so grateful, energized, refreshed, refocused, and ready to hit the ground running!

⇡ 31 days of yoga ✨✅

17/08/2021

I love this! Great little reminder on how to help find that WFH/Life balance 💛

Boundaries are important now as much as ever.

23/07/2021

Excited for this ✨

This outdoors summer event will be showcasing Buffalo’s top Artisans and Vendors! A body, mind and spirit show you don’t want to miss! There will be: artwork and paintings, jewelry, gemstones, crystals, candles, natural body care, gifts, plants, readers and mediums, tarot, reflexology, teas, ene...

17/07/2021

For our rivers, lakes, ponds, the beautiful island I grew up on, the waterfalls, the oceans, the estuaries, the glaciers, the streams, the rains… we can’t live without clean water people, it’s just that simple.

🌊Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is out there fighting to keep our Western New York fresh waters clean and protected 🙏I am so fortunate to have grown up on the Niagara River, it holds such a special place in my heart and the conservation of these rivers is essential to life as we know it in WNY.
Learn some more about the great work they are doing ⤵️
💖It’s never a bad time to donate to an amazing cause!
https://bnwaterkeeper.org/advocacy/