by christinelee | May 13, 2018 | Stress & Mental Health, Yoga
Back in 2013, when I was an avid yoga practitioner travelling around the world to study and teach, I had the fortune of spending a lot of time with a teacher of mine, Christina Sell. One spring, I was attending a particular workshop called “Asana Junkies” with a group...
by christinelee | Jan 31, 2017 | Yoga
Before I shifted to practicing psychotherapy and offering coaching & mentorship full-time, I was a yoga for 10 years. I was regularly asked a lot of questions about yoga teacher training by students, clients, and even strangers. Sometimes, people would even want...
by christinelee | Jan 30, 2017 | Yoga
In the yoga community, the term “Daily Practice” is used a lot in conversation. People often ask me “What does your daily practice consist of?” and I’ve heard many people say, “I really need to start a daily practice.” What I haven’t heard as often are some questions...
by christinelee | Jan 18, 2017 | Stress & Mental Health, Yoga
Resistance says: “I don’t want this. This isn’t supposed to be happening.” Love says: “Come sit on my lap. You are welcome here as you are.” In 1999, I left home for the first time and took my first steps into adult life as a student at Queen’s University....
by christinelee | Jan 15, 2017 | Yoga
As a former yoga teacher, and student of yoga for nearly 20 years, I have a confession to make: I am not a yogi. Let me explain. According to arguably the most famous yogi, Patanjali, yoga is ‘chitta vritti nirodha’, or “the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind”....
by christinelee | Jan 1, 2017 | Stress & Mental Health, Yoga
As a practitioner of yoga for nearly 20 years, I have seen all sorts of claims of what yoga can do — mostly well-intentioned to help people out of their own suffering. Claims like ‘finding your bliss’, ‘experiencing our inner peace’, ‘learning to calm your mind’...
