This practice is perfect if you feel tension around the neck and shoulders. We get into a couple of active mobility movements to soften that area of the body. You can do this in your everyday clothes, and come back to the practice as often…
I took the following photos while on a trip to Wuyuan in the Jiangxi province of China. Wuyuan is well-known for its beautiful yellow flowers, you cai hua (oil meal flower, literally) or canola flowers. The fields are everywhere around the city of Wuyuan, and…
I have been facilitating climate collage workshops since June 2020, and one word always comes back to describe the learning experience: eye-opening. Climate change is a complex topic and the collage workshops make it more accessible and fun. For me, the day I played it…
A few weeks ago, I started reading Diary of a Young Naturalist written by 16-year-old Dara McAnulty. It was recommended to me by Alison Potts, one of our Shut Up & Yoga writers and one of those humans you meet online yet can feel deeply…
I am currently reading “Sophie’s World” by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. It’s supposed to be a mix of fiction and philosophy, but since the fiction part of the book is absolute garbage, I won’t bother telling you about it. The philosophy part, however, is brilliant….
You DO NOT have to handle your emotions. Today I stumbled upon yet another post where a fellow human was referring to the practice of tending to our emotions using the word HANDLE. It is my pet peeve, like the word DEAL WITH; they are…
When I moved to the US, I remember feeling a lot of disappointment.⠀ Everyone had been saying how New York was amazing and how much I’d love it. Once there, there was so much I didn’t understand about the way people lived—and I didn’t understand…
Le 26 septembre 2019 a eu lieu la conférence de l’ONU sur le climat, une conférence que j’attendais avec impatience. Enfin, la crise du climat allait être être prioritaire sur nos to-do lists mondiales et faire la une de nos journaux. Je me demandais ce…
Hace un par de semanas, mi amiga de viaje, mi amiga a la distancia Valentina, conocida en Instagram bajo @psicologa.viajera compartió una pregunta que yo también me hago mucho: cómo hacen los que no tienen mate? Me gustaría contar la primera vez que lo probé,…