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Keep Calm & Let's Do Yoga!

Yoga builds a strong bond between mind and body. Strengthening your mind and body can help build a bulletproof mindset. A strong mindset can change the way you process emotions, improve your mental focus and discipline, better your ability to handle stress and build your self-confidence.

How yoga can actually make you happier

I love to tell people all about my skepticism regarding yoga before I finally tried it; as someone who is constantly on the go, the idea of sitting on a mat and being still sounded like torture to me. If there were "Yoga people" -- you know, people who are naturally calm and slow and patient--then I was most definitely not a yoga person.

Except, now I am a yoga person, and it's because I don't come to those stereotypical attributes naturally that I've come to love it so much. Yoga forces me to stop and do the things I know will help make me happier, but that I sometimes find hard to do when I'm away from my mat. For me, looking at the science behind yoga made it feel a lot more real and a lot less "woo-woo," too. The benefits of practicing yoga have been known by yogis for thousands of years, but modern research proves that it truly can make you happier,... Read More