Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Yoga a tool for fitness and happiness

This is the link of The Valley News, local newspaper that published the article.

http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/46024/

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Yoga helps to turn inward and become aware of what is happening

I just found this note that I wrote last year. It reminds me that when we turn inward we reconnect with ourselves and discover that the body can reflect the state of mind.

Yesterday was cloudy and cold here, everything [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Home practice: Yoga helps to be happy

Yoga teaches us how to be present in our life, feel free and happy. Yoga is not only a physical exercise. this is a mental exercise too. let’s ask ourselves, right now, “Am I hungry, thirsty, sick,  have a roof on my head ?”

these are survival questions that help to replace us in the present [...]

  1 week, 6 days ago · View

Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: The practice of Yoga develops awareness in our daily life

In the article “Yoga, awareness, listen to the body” I explained why the practice of Yoga poses connected with the breath calm the mind and allows us to feel what is happening inside the body.
In [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Back pain, good posture and Yoga

One thing I have learned through Yoga is to pay attention to my posture. With good posture we avoid back pain (back pain is from the neck to the lower back). We gain good digestion and good elimination. We are happier because somebody with good posture has less of an inclination for negative thoughts than [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: Yoga, awareness, listening to the body

Listen to the body is repeated over and over in a yoga class but what is really the meaning this phrase?
Shashi Pottathil  my teacher, explains that the body is like a flower. It needs time to unfold and blossom. Before the [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: 10 minute yoga meditation in your kitchen

Meditation is mindfulness of the moment with the breath. When we meditate the mind stops being agitated. All thoughts stay away because we focus on one point.
This can be done in different ways: sitting position with closed eyes, body and mind still. Or in our daily life when we [...]

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Sophie Malahieude wrote a new blog post: What brought me to Hatha Yoga

I wanted to practice yoga to learn more about the mind. I was hoping that yoga could give me understanding and consciousness of the mind.
I discovered much more.
A daily practice brought me peace, and happiness and helped me to discover the purpose of my [...]

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