True North Wellness Blog
Health and Wellness Coaching: What You Should Know
Holistic Wellness Coaching is a versatile experience that can help you discover a healthier way of living and achieve your goals, from nutrition to stress management to fitness. Discover not only the benefits of working with a coach but what you should look for in a wellness coach.
Gratitude: Counting Your Blessings Is Good for Your Mind & Body
Counting your blessings brings a positive effect to your health. Find what gratitude is, how it changes your brain, and learn six ways to cultivate gratitude.
Stress vs Anxiety: the Differences and Ways to Cope
We often use the terms stress and anxiety interchangeably, but they are not the same. Simply put, stress is a physical and emotional reaction to a real or perceived threat. Anxiety more often than not is a reaction to stress.
Aparigraha: Practicing the Philosophy of Non-Attachment in Yoga
Our October Theme of the Month is Aparigraha, the last of the 5 Yamas, the ethical underpinnings of yoga for living in the right relationship with others. Aparigraha is often translated as “non-greed,” “non-possessiveness,” or “non-attachment.”
Deepen Your Yoga Practice With Teacher Training
You love yoga. Yoga has changed your life and yet you can’t begin to articulate exactly how and why. You just know that you are better for it. You sense that you are just scratching the surface of what yoga truly is and are eager to go deeper. But what the heck does that really mean?
Fifteen Signs You’re Ready for Yoga Teacher Training
1. You structure your day around yoga. You love it and want more.
2. You realize how little you are learning in your regular yoga classes.
3. You want to develop a sitting practice beyond the asanas.
Asteya - the virtue of non-stealing
Asteya is the third of the five Yamas of Yoga. Learn more about Asteya and practice this Yama on your mat and off your mat. Cultivate gratitude.
Yoga Is a Team Sport; on Community and Sangha
You are not alone if you have found it difficult to keep up your yoga and meditation practice this past year. Plain and simple, practice is easier with a sangha.
Yoga: A means to a healthy lifestyle - Part 2
In this second post, I will tackle the Occupational, Financial, Environmental, and Intellectual qualities connected to yoga.
Yoga: A means to a healthy lifestyle
I have been participating and working in the wellness industry for decades and there is one thing I can say for sure—the key to a healthy lifestyle is developing a yoga practice.
You can’t be serious, just breathe
Different emotions are associated with different forms of breathing, so changing how we breathe can change how we feel. Think about how you breathe when you are anxious or angry versus when you are filled with joy and laughter.
Wellness: An Inside Job
Mindfulness is like a gatekeeper vetting whether visitors have friendly or harmful intentions. In mindfulness, we monitor what is happening as skillful or unskillful, wholesome, or unwholesome. We notice if thoughts cause pain or joy.
Exercise is the magic bullet of wellness
At the end of the day, exercise is essential for every aspect of our well-being. It would be great if we could bottle it, but that’s the rub. How do we find a way to get moving when we lack the time and motivation, or do not have a workout buddy, or do not like classes or clubs, or are self-conscious?
The Importance of Emotional Wellness and Ways to Check your Emotions
How you feel and what you feel at a particular time can affect your ability to carry out activities, manage relationships, and your overall mental health. Learn how to keep a good check on your emotions.