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Yoga for an Easeful Birth: From Correct Baby Positioning to Endurance "Presence" Training
Guest post by Lexi Yoga Giving birth is not an easy task. Getting pregnant, carrying a child in your womb and having to suffer the pains of childbirth isn’t something you can easily dismiss. Not all women can handle the pain and even if they can, they shouldn’t have to suffer so much during the time of childbirth. Anesthesia can…
Hormonal Hostage: Six Reasons Your Thyroid is Sluggish + Metabolism Slow
When your thyroid is working against you, your body feels slow. Reflexes? Not as rapid-fire as they were 10 years ago. You don’t react as fast to changes in your environment. Thyroid is the hormone of metabolism, similar to the “idle” position in a car. If your idle is slow, the processes in your body…
5 Quick Tips to Jumpstart Your Vitality
Today is our final day of the first Mission Ignition, so I decide to share our Jumpstart with our larger community. I create a Jumpstart once per week in Mission Ignition to help you focus and stay whelmed, rather than overwhelmed. Begin with one of these tips, and notice how it changes your old patterns.…
Energy of Desire: How Overproviding Gets in the Way
Guest post by Rosie Vega This week we’ve been focusing on how to integrate all we’ve learned in Mission Ignition. But my mind is still being blown by all I’ve learned so far. Some concepts are deceptively simple: get more sleep, breathe, listen to your body, ask for what you want. But these core directives…
Dr. Sara's Top 8 Hormone Tests: Find Your Blind Spots + Track Your Progress
If you read O Magazine as avidly as I, you know that December features a story on the quantified self, called Beyond Measure. Author Catherine Price describes the Hawthorne Effect, which is the phenomenon that we behave differently when watched, or put another way: when your yoga teacher gazes at you in class, your…
Making a Stop-Doing List and Checking It Twice
By Guest Writer Rosie Vega If I had to pick one song that best fits my life it would have to be “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” by Warren Zevon, from his self-titled 1975 debut album. It seems that I’ve been chronically underslept for decades. And, like Warren, I figured it was something I could…
Low Thyroid: Do you have a slow brain, weight gain or thyroid hair?
This week in Mission Ignition we are taking on the thyroid. Thought I’d share. Do you have, or have you experienced in the past… Hair loss, including of the outer third of your eyebrows and/or eyelashes (which indicates both a beauty crisis and a hormonal imbalance)? Dry skin? Dry, straw-like hair? Fluid retention or swollen…
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
By Guest Writer Rosie Vega A now largely forgotten 1961 Broadway show, “Stop the World—I Want to Get Off,” is more memorable for its title, which became a pop culture catch phrase for a while, than the musical itself. According to Broadway insider Oscar Levant, the creators took it from a graffito scrawled on a…
Mission Ignition Day 10: Female Sacred Anatomy with Ellen Heed
We are now 10 days into Module 1 of Mission Ignition. Yesterday we had a fascinating interview with Ellen Heed. Ellen is a somatic genius who has found myriad ways to connect to the primacy of felt experience. We planned to talk about Female Sacred Anatomy – particularly the neurology of women as a divine…