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Health and healing to all in your quest for integration of your body-mind-soul!


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'Every light begins with darkness
Every flower was once a seed
And with the sun and wind to test us
We are bound to be released.'

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An Adventure Into Self-Healing

Explore the Body Window's self-guided course in healing. This is a simplified self-healing strategy for peak body-mind-soul health in a complicated world.

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Using Your Foam Roller for Developing Intuition

The benefits to using a foam roller are more than physical. If used as an intuitive tool, you can discover yourself in a new way!

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Gliding Exercises for Lower Body Strength Training

Gliding exercises are a wonderful way to connect to your body to transform your physical energy from your core and lower body to help you find your personal power!

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Myofascial Release ~ The Self-Emptying of Body-Mind-Soul Kenosis

Self myofascial release on a foam roller is similar to yoga. It releases deeply held muscular tension and therefore stress.

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The Body-Mind Connection and Psychosomatic Illness

The body-mind connection is a powerful and universal force that exists in your life, often without your being aware of it. It is the main driver of your health, whether you realize it or not.

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Remember to Breathe ~ Why the Breath is so Important

When we remember to breathe, the whole world of relaxation, and therefore, optimal health is open to us. It is physiologically impossible to hold tension when you breathe deeply!

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The Importance of Conscious Breathing

Conscious breathing is so very important because it is such a vital aspect of your life. It is vital in much more than just the physical sense.

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Body Blessing Prayer

Learn how to love your body by doing the Body Blessing Prayer and show yourself the love you deserve.

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The Power of Chakra Yoga for Changing Your Health

Chakra yoga helps you become aware of your body's subtle energy system and aids in opening and balancing your chakras!

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An Attitude of Gratitude

When you shift your attention from self absorption to an attitude of gratitude, your whole world changes.

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Using Yoga Blocks ~ A Great Way to Align Yoga Poses

The beauty of yoga blocks is that it can aid in the proper alignment for all yoga practitioners.

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Why We Overeat

A new insight, perhaps, into why we overeat. Is overeating more complex than we give it credit, or is it simple?

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What is a Metaphor and Why is it Important?

Understanding what is a metaphor and how the use of metaphors is a reflection of our inner condition.

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Tension Myositis Syndrome ~ A New Diagnosis for Chronic Pain

Tension myositis syndrome is perhaps the most significant new diagnosis of our modern time.

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The Square Pose in Yin Yoga

The Square Pose in yin yoga, is perhaps the strongest hip-opener in all of yoga.

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Why You Choose Negativity Over Positivity and How to Change It.

How to deal with negativity in those around you and to create positivity in your life.

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Using Intuitive Movement for Healing Mind Body and Soul

"Intuitive Movement" is what I call the process of learning how to use the body as a spiritual tool. Your body is instrumental in healing your body-mind-soul.

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Grace Pays A Visit

Experiencing the grace of God ~ A personal story of warmth and sunshine for health and healing.

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Foam Roller Exercises & Stretches ~ Piriformis and Gluteus Muscles

You become aware of your body-mind connection when you perform foam roller exercises for your hip muscles and healing can begin!

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Emotional Pain

Emotional beings with emotional pain ~ Let us unite!

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Disease Prevention

Physical treatments alone are insufficient for disease prevention, because they do not account for your emotional and spiritual pain!

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Creating Sacred Spaces

Creating sacred spaces for ourselves allows for healing in our own special place!

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Yoga Meditation Videos from the Body Window

My videos are guided meditation videos that you will do with the aid of your physical being ~ your body, to lead you to health and healing of your entire being ~ your body-mind-soul.

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The Toe Squat Pose in Yin Yoga

The Toe Squat Pose is deceptively simple in appearance, yet it is a very intense pose for almost everyone.

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The Ankle Stretch Pose in Yin Yoga

The Ankle Stretch Pose in Yin Yoga is an intense ankle opener that also requires a single point of focus and balance.

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The Squat Pose in Yin Yoga

The Squat Pose, or Malasana is a challenging pose that opens the hips, knees and ankles.

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The Forward Fold Pose or "Dangling" in Yin Yoga

Dangling in the Forward Fold Pose, or Uttanasana, is a very grounding yin yoga pose that can also relieve your anxiety.

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The Cat Pulling Its Tail Pose in Yin Yoga

The Cat Pulling Its Tail Pose has an eye-catching name, is similar to the reclining twists in Yin Yoga, however is one of the few poses that target the quadriceps muscles in the front of the thigh.

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The Raised Feet Pose in Yin Yoga

The Raised Feet Pose is a wonderfully simple inversion, which will decompress and release your lower back and keep you young!

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The Happy Baby Pose or Stirrup Pose in Yin Yoga

Loved by all, the Happy Baby Pose is a powerful hip opener. It releases the sacrum and lower back, and it soothes the central nervous system.

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The Frog Pose in Yin Yoga

The Frog Pose is a powerful groin opener of the adductor muscles and can aid you in digestion and cramps, both menstrual and from the stomach.

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The Quarter Dog Pose with a Twist in Yin Yoga

The Quarter Dog Pose with a Twist is a lovely pose that opens your side body and stimulates your internal organs.

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The Twisted Roots Pose in Yin Yoga

The Twisted Roots Pose is a variation on the Side Lying Spinal Twist, and works more deeply into the therapeutic twist.

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The Twisted Dragon Pose in Yin Yoga

The Twisted Dragon Pose is a Yang variation of Yin Yoga's Dragon Poses.

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The Half Dragonfly Pose in Yin Yoga

The Half Dragonfly Pose is a variation of the full Dragonfly Pose in Yin Yoga. It is a modification of the pose that we know as Upavista Konasana.

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Doctors Know Best!

I am a Pharmacist. Whenever, a patient asks me what's wrong with them or if they should decrease their meds because of side effects, I always have to

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My SBI Review: How I Shared my Passion and Built a Business Too!

This is an SBI review that tells my own personal story of how I built a successful business online, just by sharing my passion.

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Aerobic Exercise for the Body-Mind-Soul

If aerobic exercise is to be beneficial to the body-mind-soul, the no pain, no gain mantra must be discarded!

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Finally...an affordable treatment for chronic pain

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