Naturally Boost your Immune System with these Healthy Super Foods. By: Anushka Bhargava, Featured Guest Writer Our immune system is highly compound. While on one side, it poses immense strength to fight various diseases, on the other side, it can be weakened by infections and diseases if not properly taken care of. To keep the immune system strong, it is essential to eat right and stay hydrated. However, some of superfoods can boost your immune system tremendously. In this article, we have listed 8 Super Foods to Boost Your Immune System. 1. Super Food: Citrus Fruits Undeniably, citrus fruits ..read more

Are you ready for an advanced yoga class? Here are 5 Signs to help you decide. By: Janine Woodley, Avid Yoga Enthusiast One of the most rewarding things about doing regular exercise is the chance to see your body gradually becoming stronger and leaner. The same is true for your mind – doing yoga regularly lets you discipline your mental and physical stamina. And that is one of the obvious reasons to try yoga. Making noticeable progress is undoubtedly a cause for celebration, but sometimes you might be overestimating or underestimating what you can achieve. For this reason, we will talk about f ..read more

Write a Yoga Book: 6 Tips for Yoga Teachers By: Jennifer Fender, Featured Guest Writer Who says that you should limit your yoga teachings to classes? The world is filled with opportunities, and one of them is sharing your knowledge through writing a book. If you have a love for yoga, a unique idea, and enough experience, you have the foundation for writing a book. Your teaching can exceed the yoga room. It can go beyond yoga practice. Writing a book on yoga can be your contribution to the yoga community and yoga practitioners all around the world. What’s more, writing a book can help you grow ..read more

The Movement Loft is a one-of-kind fitness studio delivering unique programming in dance, yoga and more DALLAS, 2021; source: CultureHype Photos by: Thomas Garza When she reached out to Ellen Hoffman on Instagram, the woman was understandably nervous. Her class at Hoffman’s Movement Loft would be the first time she’d ever done yoga, and she had a lot of questions. “I talked to her for about a week, and reassured her that she could definitely do this,” Hoffman says. “Then she came to class and joined the studio right after.” That’s a pretty typical story for The Movement Loft: guests are nervou ..read more

Mandala Earth Presents the River of Offerings, Twelve Journeys Following the Path of the Ganges River by Jennifer Prugh The River of Offerings is a stunning book of photography and first-person accounts by Jennifer Prugh who details a series of life-changing pilgrimages over the last 10 years to spiritually significant locations along India’s sacred Ganges River. This beautifully-crafted book reaches out for a deeper understanding of the ancient spiritual traditions of India, and how they might shed new light on one’s contemporary yoga practice. It asks: What can India’s River Ganges tea ..read more

How to deal with the pressures from parenting. Parenting stress damages your well-being and affects the development of your child. It also puts stress on the family by sapping patience and damaging relationships. First-time parents that have a new baby at home often feel stressed about how they should manage things. When you are a new parent, every little situation seems like a big issue. Fortunately, with the increasing parenting experience, this anxiety often goes away or at least gets better with time. Any parenting issue can become a source of stress and anxiety. In addition to this, paren ..read more

Benefits of Massage  By:  Mary Von Ahnen, Certified Yoga Instructor & Horizon Hot Yoga Owner Many people enjoy massage therapy.  There are so many benefits, and it just feels great.  As a devotee of massage, but as someone who knows very little about what it actually does for me, I decided to consult an expert…Christina Woodall (pictured below), our massage therapist on staff at Horizon Hot Yoga…to learn the ins and outs of massage therapy. Mary:  Some people have never experienced a massage.  What should someone expect who is doing a massage for the first tim ..read more

Keep your Body Feeling Young While it is true that our bodies change as we get older, there are times when our bodies can age even faster than we do. When this occurs, we start to suffer from symptoms that should belong to persons who are older, but there are simple ways to prevent that from happening. Work Your Brain Your brain might be the first organ to clearly show that it is aging. According to the Healthy, if your brain is aging faster than you are, you will start to have trouble finding the right words when talking and could even experience memory loss. You may also have problems with d ..read more

The Path of Least Resistance Embrace Your Wobbles: Wisdom from the Yoga Mat By: Priscilla Shumway, Editor of Embrace Your Wobbles: Wisdom from the Yoga Mat “Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” -Rolf Gates  In the New Year as we begin our practice again and again, we will face challenging poses. Along with these poses we may experience wobbles: those physical and mental challenges that are an unavoidable p ..read more

Reducing Belly Fat with Yoga By: Daniel Torres, Personal Fitness Instructor Description: With the help of the right yoga asanas, you will lose your belly fat within mere days. Here is a guide of some yoga exercises we have put together for you. An erroneous lifestyle, high-stress levels, lack of exercise, and unhealthy eating habits – all these factors are responsible for a flabby tummy. This lack of abdominal strength will then manifest in the form of lower back pain and can cause other problems like maladies of the pelvic region or cause the visceral organs (gut) to start sagging. Combined w ..read more