We hear them say all the time: When you’re stressed, try yoga! When you’re feeling sluggish, try yoga! When you want to get fit, again, try yoga! Yoga is mostly perceived as a path to wellness and this is why we often hear experts rave about it again and again. It improves one’s muscle strength, endurance, and flexibility.

These days “how are you doing” feels like a loaded question.

What have you learned about yourself during quarantine?

While we all know that one person who is always motivated to workout despite questionable weather, that isn’t the case for most of us. The reality is, there are days when we don’t feel like leaving the comfort of our homes to do much of anything, let alone go to our yoga class; especially if our car is covered with a mountain of snow. Although you may not feel like venturing outside of your home, your routine does not have to be negatively affected. You can create a yoga studio right inside your house, and you don’t even need much! Here are a few tips that will help you create your very own yoga space without breaking the bank.

Daily commutes can be stressful.

What starts as a great morning can quickly turn into a chaotic mess, especially if you’re driving or taking public transportation during rush hour traffic. What if, however, you could get to work relaxed and refreshed, even after a hectic commute? All you need is to create a ritual every day. In our ‘5 Steps to Your Home Yoga Practice’ post, we mentioned how it’s important to make a commitment and put yourself first when it comes to taking care of yourself. You can do this by practicing yoga every day, as it will help you stay calm amidst all the chaos and improve your morning and your focus at work.

It’s no secret that yoga has an extensive number of physical benefits.

But one of the specific things that makes it so appealing to so many people is that it can also help alleviate physical pain, most notably in the back (where pain can be so persistent and problematic). The stretching and flexibility required in yoga forces muscles associated with this sort of irritation to be stretched out, often through fairly basic poses such as upward- and downward-facing dog.

Stress happens to everyone. It’s a strain that affects our mental, physical, or emotional health and completely takes over our minds and bodies. Whether it occurs from a positive change in your life or it’s caused by a long, challenging day, the best way to get through it is by finding relief that will work for you.

If you’re perusing the internet at 2:00 a.m. again and can’t seem to settle down, your life probably sucks right about now. It doesn’t have to, and there are ways to get to sleep without popping a handful of pills and living with brain fog the next day. Here are four badass (and effective) ways to get the sleep your body craves.

If you’re in recovery, you may already know the benefits of self-care and fitness.

However, you may not realize the importance of finding a good balance between the two. Practicing self care while adhering to a physical fitness routine isn’t always easy, but it is necessary to achieve overall calm, health, and wellness. If you still need motivation to make self care part of your fitness plan, keep these reasons in mind.

It all begins with an idea.

Diabetes is a difficult diagnosis to get. If you have diabetes, no matter which kind, you’re going to have to learn how to manage it for the rest of your life. If you don’t, you’re facing loss of limbs, blindness or even death.

Making a personal vow to lose that post-Christmas weight probably doesn’t make a lot of sense if you’re not one who likes running or working out in the cold or running on ice-covered paths. In fact, lousy weather is enough to convince a lot of people to postpone their vows until the spring. Of course, by then it’s too late: a winter of inactivity and overindulgence puts them right back where they were during the holidays - overweight and miserable. If you’re determined to maintain a healthy year-round routine, you’d better bundle up or find another option. For some, a gym membership is enough to see them through the cold months. But getting in the car and driving to the gym every day (or every other day) isn’t appealing to everyone, especially people who are too busy with work and family during the week.

Do you ever hear people complain about being an adult? It happens all the time! People often claim they "don't want to be an adult" or they "can't adult today". There seems to be an ever growing number of people who want to take a pass on their grown-up status to hide in a pillow fort, avoiding the world instead.

You can learn a lot from feces.

When it comes to wildlife, some people use a pile of crap and tell what kind of animal it came from. They can tell the state of health of said animal, it’s age, and what it ate. They know where it came from, where it is going and when it was last here. The secrets are all laying down in that steaming pile of shit.

Overcoming addiction is never an easy process, but yoga can help those struggling with addiction get sober and stay sober. Yoga combines both exercise and mindfulness, which is the practice of experiencing the present moment without judgment. Moderate to high intensity physical exercise, such as yoga, has been shown to improve addiction recovery. Yoga reduces anxiety, stress, and depression – symptoms that can trigger a relapse – and targets all symptoms of addiction, including cravings, impulsivity, negative mood, and increased reactions to stress.

It’s easy to decide that you want to make your health a priority —but what’s not always easy is crossing that finish line. The truth is that becoming the healthiest version of yourself doesn’t have to be stressful or overwhelming. With a few mindful adjustments to your everyday routine, you can turn your healthy choices into habits that will last a lifetime!

I have yet to ever meet someone who enjoys the feeling of a hangover.

If I do ever meet this person then I promise I will capture them for science!

There are a lot of people on this planet. At least one of them is bound to enjoy hangovers…

Stress sucks.

I know, this isn’t exactly news.

We all struggle with it, we all want less of it… and yet, no matter what we do, it’s still an unavoidable part of our lives. When stress pours itself onto your life it doesn’t care if you’re ready not.

The first piece of equipment that comes to mind when you think of yoga is the mat.

Let’s be real. Our poor hamstrings have it tough!