Trauma-Informed Yoga for Healing
If you’ve experienced trauma, incorporating the pillars of yoga can help.
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Monica Cadena
Outside of her work as a writer and social media manager for Yoga Journal, Monica Cadena is an Afro-Latinx California based artist, writer, yogi, movement worker, digital alchemist, and the co-founder of Black Healers Connect, a digital and in person community for healers of the diaspora. She’s the co-creator of the podcast Healing for the Culture, alongside Heather Archer, and is the former co-founder of Wear Your Voice Magazine, an intersectional feminist digital publication with recent investment by serial investor Mark Cuban. The social media and marketing director at Off the Mat Into the World, Monica’s passionate about highlighting stories from those at the intersections of healing and social justice activism. Connect with her on Instagram at sacred.alchemist.
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How Yoga Can Help You Heal From Trauma
Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness can supplement trauma treatments to help you find resilience and healing.
A Mindful Digital Detox
The next time you find yourself doom-scrolling, consider weaving some of these mindfulness practices into your daily routine.
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A Nighttime Meditation for Setting Intentions
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A Meditation to Cultivate Joy
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De-Stress in 2 Minutes with Box Breathing
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Chaotic Morning? This Quick Meditation Will Help
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3 Facial Exercises to Combat Stress and Fatigue
Muscles in our face can hold tension like muscles anywhere else in your body. Relax and rejuvenate your face with these three exercises that release strain and calm the mind.
A Death Doula’s Take on the Pandemic
As fall arrives and COVID-19 numbers rise, wellness practitioners across the country are sharing their healing modalities to help us face our fear of death. We spoke with John Christian Phifer, a death doula, about how the novel coronavirus is changing our relationship with life.
Try This Nourishing Sequence the Next Time You’re Feeling Bloated
Feeling sluggish in the mind and body? This short practice can help you “digest” both feelings and food.
Create a Practice to Uplift Your Spirit, Inspire Creativity, and Calm Your Nervous System
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares an inspiring morning practice with her spiritual teacher and life coach Dayana Mendoza.
Running Can Be Meditative
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena discusses why she runs and what she does to prepare for a training run.
How to Curb the Jitters Before a Date
Feeling nervous about meeting a stranger? Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares some great tips for calming your nerves and building your confidence before that Tinder face-to-face.
A Libations Meditation for Honoring Black Lives Lost
Sit with Monica Cadena, Yoga Journal’s 2020 Live Be Yoga ambassador, for this sacred practice, called 8:46: A Meditative Libation Honoring the Ancestors. This meditation is 8 minutes and 46 seconds long, representing the time George Floyd was restrained by Minneapolis police.
31 Yoga and Self-Care Resources for Black Yogis (Especially if Social Media Has You Overwhelmed)
These talks, breath and movement practices, sound healings, and more can help you find moments of calm and community, as well as develop self-regulation tools so you can tend to your nervous system. Bookmark for future reference.
How to Meditate Even If You Struggle to Sit Still
If you suffer from ADHD, or just a chronic wandering mind, these tips can help you prepare for a deeply nourishing practice.
Quiet a Hyperactive Mind Before Meditation
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares her tips for preparing for meditation when you suffer from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
To Pay or Not to Pay for Yoga During the Coronavirus Shutdown
With classes offered on free platforms, including Zoom and Instagram Live, people are grappling with if and how to compensate teachers.
7 Ways Yogis Can Practice Loving-Kindness in Response to COVID-19
Now is the time to put your yoga into action—taking only what you need, helping those who are more vulnerable, and keeping up self-care so that you can contribute to collective health. Here, a few ideas to get you started.
The Story Behind Rosa Parks and Yoga
How Georgia State University professor Dr. Stephanie Evans uncovered pictures of the iconic Civil Rights activist practicing asana.