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Deepen Your Yoga Practice at http://www.quietmind.yoga/

Deepen Your Yoga Practice at http://www.quietmind.yoga/

Deepen Your Yoga Practice at http://www.quietmind.yoga/

74% of Americans are living with digestive distress. According to Yoga and Ayurveda, this is a big deal. This is the root of all disease. Today’s practice works to alleviate digestive distress, stoke digestive fire and ignite Agni. What is Agni? Learn in today’s full length yoga class.  ***** Start Your Yoga Practice with 7 days of free Gentle Yoga at http://www.quietmind.yoga/

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I’ve talked to many people over the years who want to meditate, or maybe tried it once but didn’t find it effective. One of the biggest misunderstandings about yoga practice is that it’s something other than meditation. The whole intention of yoga postures, according to the old texts, is to prepare for meditation, and for each pose itself to be a meditation. This, to me, takes a lot of the stress...

The glutes are meant to be the strongest muscle in the body. For many of us, the reality of sitting for several hours a day has made the glutes weaker than we’d probably like them to be. Sitting also tends to put a lot of stress on the shoulders. This practice works to alleviate shoulder tension and strengthen the glutes. Recommended props: 1 block.  ***** Start Your Yoga Practice with 7 days...

Thank you to everyone who has listened so far, I was surprised to check my stats for the first time and see there have been over 1000 listens to this podcast! Today’s episode begins Season Two, focusing on practices for the fall season; grounding, centering, warming the body with things like twists, chair pose, eagle pose and crow pose. If you’re listening outside of the fall season, these are sti...

A solid, all around, full body practice to move, stretch and strengthen the whole body. One block suggested but not required.  ***** Start Your Yoga Practice with 7 days of free Gentle Yoga at http://www.quietmind.yoga/

In my first years of practice I dreaded the word “core.” I had a few experiences of classes with intense, fast paced movements that felt jarring to my body, that I was assured would strengthen my core. That mysterious part of my body where all sugars and fats seem to stay for weeks at a time. I didn’t know about the transverse abdominus. I didn’t know about the psoas. I didn’t understand how to tr...

The central nervous system plays a huge role in what we’re doing in yoga practice. It can essentially be in two different modes: either sympathetic response (fight, flight and freeze) or parasympathetic response (rest and digest). In yoga we learn to regulate this system to be able to access both as needed. Hatha Flow is essentially a Vinyasa yoga practice with some longer holds in poses.  **...

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Quietmind Yoga Podcast. This week is a Gentle Hatha practice for low back pain. This is something I worked with a lot a few years ago and learned some very effective movements and postures to relieve my own back pain. In this episode I will share what has been most effective for me. The only prop I recommend for this class is a yoga blanket. If you don’t have one, you c...

Have you ever noticed how sickness can start days or even weeks before you actually get sick? Your nervous system starts to feel frazzled, maybe your routine gets thrown off, maybe you have digestive issues. These symptoms can all be caught well before they become a bigger issue. The breath is a great way to notice these issues and address them before they become illness. This is because breath is...

I'm Jeremy Devens and welcome back to the Quietmind Yoga Podcast. If you’re like me, your body can overheat at times and needs to cool down. In Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga, this is called the Pitta Dosha. Pitta literally means “that which cooks.” Pitta is associated with all metabolic processes: digesting food, ideas, experiences. Regulating heat in the body. Also things like passion, foc...

My name is Jeremy Devens and I have been working in health and wellness since 2003. I have been teaching yoga since 2011 and teach full time in Austin, TX.  I created this podcast so you could have 60 min yoga classes to practice anytime, anywhere.  No need to find a class, figure what to practice, or even look at a device. Subscribe and press play every week.  This helps you develo...

My name is Jeremy Devens and welcome back to the Quietmind Yoga Podcast. This is a gentle Hatha Yoga class suitable for all levels. As always, we’ll do a little bit of everything, with an emphasis on movements that require balance and coordination. Anytime you do movements that cross the midline you are activating the corpus callosum, which regulates communication between left and right hemisphere...