Yoga is practiced on and off the mat. It is a guide to living your most authentic life. Long after my yoga teacher training it struck me that the Yoga Sutras, which we were instructed from, are the instruction manual to life everyone is always looking for. Clear, relatable directions that, when adhered to, pretty much guarantee you will manifest the life you want.
“Special categories” is code for a few specific items I feel deserve more attention than being lumped in with an entire room. The three categories we’re focusing on here – books, papers, and digital clutter – are all things that easily grow out of control and become so overwhelming that we turn a blind eye to them.
The products we put in our bodies and onto our skin become a part of us. Moving toward a simpler, more natural system for your body will help ensure your overall health. I have teamed up with essential oil expert Lindsay Luker of Good Leaf Life, a “guide to understanding the ingredients & solutions provided by nature to help you live peacefully & naturally”.
Creating a home you love means having the general areas of the home that you spend the most time in be as intentional and chaos-free as possible. The shared areas of the house get a lot of traffic, often with a number of people contributing to the state of the space. These areas benefit from organization specific to their functions.
The greatest gifts of yoga go far beyond the postures we do in classes. This is your opportunity to learn and apply these ancient teachings in your own life. When I trained to become a yoga teacher I was introduced to yoga as a full philosophy. The depth of the teachings of yoga blew me away and I immediately knew I needed to share this information with everyone beyond the yoga mat.
Helpful or harmful? You get to decide which thoughts earn space in your mind. There’s a lot of extraneous thinking going on out there. Worries about things we can’t control or change. Nasty thoughts about other people that don’t fix anything. Taking responsibility for the choices of others whom we can’t control, fix or change.
The bathroom can be deceptive. Unless there’s a ton of stuff all over the counters it doesn’t look like a clutter collector. The clutter is generally well hidden in drawers, cabinets and the linen closet. The categories that come along with the bathroom need to be attended to for clutter reasons as well as health reasons.
You’ve probably heard how calming yoga is. Someone in your life, maybe even you, has said how good she feels after yoga. How relaxed, ready to meet the world, grounded, and centered she feels. Did you know there’s science behind that? Breathwork and yoga postures (asanas) can calm the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system that becomes active during times of stress.
Why does the kitchen become so cluttered? There are a bunch of reasons. Food is so central to our lives that we spend a lot of time in our kitchens. Things from other rooms easily get deposited in the kitchen on tables and counters. Maybe gnomes come in during the night and throw stuff around. Hey, you don’t know.
