How Can Yoga Practices Support Mental Health?
Yoga and mental health are two very, very big topics. The terms themselves mean different things to different people, and understanding...
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At Unfold we provide online accessible yoga as well as in-person and virtual yoga therapy. Get to know more about us and our approach in this Blog space. New posts come out Tuesdays!
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Leigh Drake
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Right Use of Energy: Walking My Talk
The practice of yoga is a practice of connection. Whether our practice centers around movement, breath, meditation...
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Leigh Drake
- Feb 8, 2022
- 1 min
Keeping it simple
Life is complicated. Time is limited. Managing my needs, the needs of those I love, my community, our planet. It seems to go on and on...
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Leigh Drake
- Jan 11, 2022
- 1 min
My Wound Becomes a Portal
We all struggle. We all have pain. My “normal” way of moving through life is to ignore my pain and push on, to push through. Who hasn’t …
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EB Ferdig
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
Ahimsa - Personally Practicing Non-harming
When faced with the harm that is done every day in this world, it can be overwhelming to consider. I know I often feel frustration, fear...
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Leigh Drake
- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
The Union of Opposites: Terror and Joy
For a while now, I’ve noticed that I want to focus on the good things in life and pretend that the bad doesn’t exist. It’s not part of...
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Leigh Drake
- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
Beyond Concentration: Cultivating Spaciousness in Your Meditation Practice
Cultivating spaciousness to combat concentration in meditation.
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Leigh Drake
- Mar 2, 2021
- 3 min
Connection at the Turning Points
Hmmm. Unbalanced. I’m doing too much for others and not taking time for me. That’s showing up as skipping my meditation and my yoga...
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EB Ferdig
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Finding Some Peace with Surrender
These days, any difficult blow can seem like a huge pile-on to an already built-up pile of pre-existing conditions. I don't have to list...
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Leigh Drake
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
The Breath: A Gateway to Giving and Receiving
Sometimes disconnection shows up in the guise of isolation, with the inner dialogue of “why am I the only one who…” “how come its always...
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Leigh Drake
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
Being in Touch with Life Through Nature
Lost in my thoughts, struggling mentally with a problem that becomes larger and larger the more I think about it. Someone interrupts;...
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Leigh Drake
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Connecting to Life Through the Senses
You need to do this. You should do that. This isn’t going the way I want. Why aren’t they doing what I want? Why is this sooooo...
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Leigh Drake
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
Being Alive in a Disconnected World
Do you ever have those days when you just aren’t “feelin' it”; just aren’t connecting to the way you want to BE in the world and in your...
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EB Ferdig
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
Dimensions of Silence
The Winter Solstice month of December is such a great time to explore silence. The long periods of dark encourage us to come indoors, if...
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EB Ferdig
- Dec 16, 2019
- 3 min
A Chat with Carol Grimes on Loving-Kindness
I had the opportunity to chat with one of our favorite teachers, Carol Grimes, this week, to talk with her about her upcoming series ....
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neera malhotra
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
On Presence!
It was early in the morning at around 6:30 am. With my hot steamy almond turmeric- cardamom milk, I sat on my chair next to the window...
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Leigh Drake
- Oct 22, 2019
- 1 min
Finding Rest and Inspiration in the Season of Change
Awe, awesome change! As I write this, the bright orange and yellow leaves are quickly falling off of the beautiful trees outside of my...
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Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P
- Sep 7, 2019
- 2 min
A Powerful Antidote to Compassion Fatigue
I learned about burnout as a first-year grad student in social work. Through my work-study position, I was tasked with contacting alumni...
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EB Ferdig
- Jun 19, 2019
- 2 min
The Power of Relationships
by Laura Martin, LCSW I'm so gratified to offer mindfulness classes in a yoga studio that in every way endeavors to promote respect,...
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