Regardless of the traditions you celebrate, this holiday season you undoubtedly found yourself exercising less, eating more and… shopping.

Two yoga books for your New Year’s reading list that promise to evoke and inspire both the heart and the mind

Spice up your Chaturanga Dandasana and sweeten your Urdhva Mukha Svanasana with some holiday grooves.

As we barrel full speed ahead towards the holiday season, I can feel the stress and frantic energy mounting; not only in myself, but in my students. Too much to do, too little time. Here are 5 tools to help you along.

Temperatures have dropped and that means it’s time to get serious about helping the body stay warm! Winter is the perfect time to start practicing kundalini and vinyasa power flow. The cold weather outside is a stressor for the body, so in addition to dressing for the weather, we can support our bodies by warming them up with a heat-generating yoga practice.

The average adult attention span is estimated to be around 7 seconds. In a world of quick-fixes and instant gratification, to encourage people to slow down can be a tough sell. This is becoming especially true in the yoga world as well, particularly in the movement-based practices of Vinyasa.

A balanced yoga practice can help our bodies transition through the seasons with ease and grace. Incorporating the following key elements into our practice will help ease the transition along: heat, energize, detox and restore.

Going on holiday but want to stay committed to your yoga practice? Do you want to learn the basics of yoga before heading to a public class? Try this free 20-minute Hatha class with Semperviva teacher Carolyn Anne Budgell and …

The focus of the practice is to strengthen the nervous system and the glandular system. Longer holds work more deeply on the body systems. For instance, at 11 minutes of chanting or working with a mudra or posture, we start to affect the nerves. You’ll feel it yourself…you’ll feel pushed to your limit. This is quite simply life training. It tests you.

The transitions between seasons are the times in which we are most likely to get sick. The body is struggling to maintain homeostasis as middays are warm and then temperatures plummet at night, If we want to maintain optimal health, and have plentiful energy for all those Fall projects and endeavours, follow these simple tips during this unpredictable season.