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B.C, C.A—Delta Yoga Studio owner Mak Parhar endangers public health with absolutely insane COVID-19 insanity. Delta Yoga Studio was closed down recently after its owner, Mak Parhar, sent members an email stating that Bikram yoga kills coronavirus. At the time, public officials stated that his claim was potentially dangerous. Hot Yoga actually creates an atmosphere that is ideal for the novel coronavirus to spread. Although Harvard and other health organisations have stated that there are benefits of yoga for coronavirus, practicing hot yoga in a group setting is certainly not the answer. Because of the threat to public health, officials…
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Soon-to-lunch Chris Hemsworth guided meditations promise to help your kids calm down, despite the fact that Hemsworth has zero experience in meditation. Ever since the mindfulness industry became a $14 billion-dollar-a-year business, we’ve seen everyone from rappers to sports stars getting involved with meditation. The latest celebrity to enter the world of mindfulness is Chris Hemsworth, the Australian-born actor who you might remember from Aussie soap-opera Home & Away or, more likely, his portrayals of Thor in the Marvel superhero movies. Now Chris Hemsworth has momentarily put down Thor’s Hammer and has been getting involved with all sorts of wellness…
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Nihi Sumba virtual yoga retreat features daily yoga and meditation practices.
Indonesia—If you can’t get away because of the pandemic, you can always take a virtual yoga retreat with Nihi Sumba. With everyone currently locked up inside like our parents have grounded us, many people are looking for ways to feel like they’re on vacation while they’re self isolating at home Since the current lockdown we’ve seen all sorts of yoga and meditation classes online, along with various Buddhist courses and the likes. What’s been missing until now is the opportunity to take a virtual yoga retreat from your own home. I previously wrote about how to do a DIY meditation…
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Android TV has expanded its app library and now offers the Peloton yoga and meditation app. Android TV, the digital media / TV version of the Android operating system, has well over 5,000 apps available on the Play Store. The latest is the Peloton app, the application of the well-known spin-bike manufacturer, which contains various live and recorded video and audio workouts, including yoga and meditation. Available from today, Android TV owners can download the official Peloton app for smart-TV or set-top box. The fitness app offers a large library of workouts that are led by professional instructors. The workouts…
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Meditation can stop time, speed it up or slow it down by changing our present moment mindfulness
New research has revealed that meditation affects our perception of time, self and space, creating feelings of selflessness and timelessness. It is possible to use meditation to stop time, or to make it pass faster or slower. Time is a subjective matter. When we are anxious or depressed, time seems to pass slowly. When we are happy or excited, time seems to pass quickly. And so, our experience of time is inherently linked to our emotions in the present moment. Mindfulness meditation, or Vipassana (a Theravada Buddhist tradition) creates control of emotion, and thereby changes the way we perceive time.…
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California, U.S—A resort in California is offering a retreat from coronavirus self isolation, with yoga, meditation, wellbeing activities, and more. If you’re bored of being stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, you can always book a holiday to Southern California, where a resort is offering a luxurious retreat to get away from the coronavirus situation—although you should also be warned that California has one of the highest rate of COVID-19 anywhere in the world, with more than 10,000 deaths, so I’m not sure how smart a decision this would be. There's a total lack of respect for the pandemic…
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yoga teacher april morcel died in the early morning while going for a run.
Banks Peninsula, New Zealand—35-year-old yoga teacher, April Morcel, slips and falls to her death going for a run with her dog “Mac’ during self-isolation. Yoga teacher April Morcel was simply feeling bored during the coronavirus self-isolation. She’d been self-isolating with her boyfriend at her father and step-mother's home in Diamond Harbour, on Banks Peninsula, in New Zealand. The Tragedy Of April Morcel's Death Yoga teacher April Morcel simply felt she needed to escape the boredom of isolation, and so, on Monday, she left the family home shortly after 1pm to go for a short run in a familiar place with…
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Jennifer Lopez loves yoga and wants to make it accessible for all.
With the support of pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez, yoga chain SARVA is looking to build immunity around the world. The Jennifer-Lopez backed yoga chain is creating a new 14-day Immunity Builder Program across 25 countries around the world, including the U.S, China, France, and Germany. The program is a serious of free yoga classes that offer to help people maintain inner peace and avoid anxiety along with boosting their immune systems, by practicing yoga during the COVID-19 self-isolation period. Jennifer Lopez: "Yoga Should Be Accessible To All" J-Lo, who has often shown her love for yoga by attending…
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Liberate, the meditation app for black folks, is getting all kinds of hate from white people. Liberate, which describes itself as the “online meditation app for black people”, is a guided meditation app that uses exclusively people of colour as its teachers. It’s torn its audience in two. On the one hand, people of colour tend to praise the app for giving them meditations that are specifically cater to them. On the other hand, many white people are accusing the app of being racist itself. “. “I can just imagine the outrage there would be if this app targeted only…
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Yes, Elevate Labs, we see what you did there with the free balance meditation app trick. Very clever.
Now you can get the Balance meditation app free an entire year today. But for some obscure reason it is only available on iOS. If you’ve been thinking that meditation apps have been going nuts since the COVID-19 pandemic situations. Well, you’re right. Practically every app develop has been giving away some form of its product free to some people. Like Headspace, which is currently free for doctors and nurses, which is awesome, of course, because they are our front line defenders in this battle against the invisible enemy. One meditation app apparently just wants to be free for…
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Hyatt Hotels and Edition Hotels are working with mindfulness apps like Headspace and Inspace to create mindful hotel experiences. With the mindfulness industry growing to a whopping $1.4billion-a-year in 2019, and the rise of meditation retreats and yoga retreats, hotel chains are starting to embrace mindfulness to create more relaxing, healthy experiences for visitors. New partnership between Hyatt Hotels & Mindfulness App Headspace Hyatt Hotels is now working with the app giant Headspace to offer the mindfulness app and content both to its employees and to its guests. Employees will be given a complimentary subscription to Headspace. Guests visiting the…
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By helping us recognise and store the thoughts in our minds, this technology could represent the future of meditation and therapy.
A mind-reading AI (Artificial Intelligence) that turns thoughts in your mind into words could be the future of meditation technology and therapy. A new artificial intelligence can accurately translate words in an individual’s mind into sentences. The AI currently supports 250 words. It is actually designed to be used as a way for people who have lost speech ability because of paralysis to regain that skills. However, there are direct ways in which this technology could be applied to cognitive behavioural therapy, and could, in coming years, form the basis of the future of meditation technology. How A.I Can Turn…
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Serena And The Peaceful Pad is one of the mindfulness videos for kids from Hasbro
Pawtucket, United States—Hasbro just launched its “Bring Home The Fun” initiative, including lots of fun activities in mindfulness for parents and kids to do together. The global pandemic is a challenge for all families. But one company that is fighting to make things a little better is Hasbro. The toy company has just launched its “Bring Home The Fun” initiative, which offers parents and families lots of mindfulness content, along with other freebies, to help kids play and have fun during this challenging time. Launched today, Monday, parents and caregivers can access lots of fun and mindful content and…
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SoundSelf is a meditation game that shapes your consciousness
Austin, Texas—Andomeda Entertainment, a Texas-based video game developer, is working on SoundSelf, a mindfulness game to help you meditate. SoundSelf is a VR meditation game that the developer, Andromeda Entertainment, tells us will feature a “technodelic transformative meditation experience”. Sounds funky! As a meditation teacher I am always both excited but cautious around new innovations in mindfulness. They tend to go one of two ways. Either they represent a genuinely significant step forward for mindfulness (like Headspace, for instane), or they are simply a commercial cash-in on the current trend (like we recently saw with the release of the Mindful…
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Today we have Danica Patrick for yoga photo of the day. The former NASCAR driver rocked her best baby crow pose (asana) on Instagram. It’s a very difficult yoga pose to pull off, but being an athlete, Patrick had no problem performing the move with ease. At 38-yeard-old, Danica has already stamped herself into history. She is the most successful female open-wheel racing driver of all time and holds the only win by a woman in an IndyCar race. And she has frequently discussed how she uses yoga to prepare for races and to keep fit in general. On Sunday,…
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Prime Minister Modi's yoga videos teach various poses and meditations.
New Dheli, India—Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared videos of himself practicing yoga from home during self isolation, Monday. Modi is just one of many famous celebrities offering meditation and yoga classes for free in order to help people stay fit during self-isolation. Modi's yoga videos teach various asanas and meditaiton Modi has done things a little differently to most yoga teachers. The 69-year-old created animated 3D videos of himself doing various yoga asanas (yoga poses). He stated in a tweet that he was uploading the videos because numerous of his followers has sent questions about how he practiced yoga…
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Nina has released videos about yoga for wheelchair bound patients to exercise at home
Buckinghamshire U.K. – WheelPower releases educational videos about adaptive yoga for wheelchair bound patients. WheelPower, a UK based organisation helping people with physical impairments, has released videos about adaptive yoga for wheelchair bound patience. Adaptive yoga is a type of yoga that teaches the core principles of yoga for people with physical impairments and other special needs. It is a gentle and safe type of yoga that makes it accessible to all people, regardless of body style of health conditions. WheelPower has released these videos to help wheelchair users do yoga at home during the global pandemic. The classes are…
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Willow Smith's yoga pose "Flying Crow" shows off how fit the American rapper is.
Friday, Los Angeles, U.S.A—Fans on Instagram go nuts at Willow Smith’s yoga photo as she performs the difficult asana “Flying Crow.” Willow Smith, famous for being the daughter of Men In Black actor Will Smith and actor-singer-song-writer Jada Pinkett Smith, as well as a rapper in her own right, has wowed her fans with her Flying Crow yoga pose. Willow Smith Doing Flying Crow Yoga Pose On Friday, the 19-year-old filmed her yoga expertise on Instagram during an outdoor yoga session. She wore a bright blue longline sports bright and purple sweatpants with a waistband of her bottoms rolled, a…
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The research highlights the benefits of just a few weeks meditation for school stress
Massachusetts, U.S—Research by MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research highlights benefits of meditation for school stress. [READ: Meditation For Stress] A neuroscience study conducted by MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research has shown that mindfulness meditation reduces stress in schools. A school-based mindfulness intervention can significantly reduce perceived stress and modulate brain activity in the brain region associate with fear. Perceived stress is the individual’s perception of how much stress they are under at a specific time. Study Highlights Importance Of Meditation For School Stress Clemens C.C. Bauer [study author, postdoctoral associate, MIT] told THE DAILY MEDITATION that the research…
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Monterey Bay Aquarium releases relaxing guided ocean meditation.
California, U.S – Monterey Bay launched a guided ocean meditation with script to help people relax. I simply love this guided ocean meditation and script by Monterey Bay Aquarium. Between the relaxing ocean background and its beautiful sharks and tuna (and my favorite, the super cute sea-turtle!) there’s just so much relaxation here. Follow the video below, or read the guided ocean meditation script below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtVT7Cfgp4 Guided Ocean Meditation Script During this practice we will work on coming more deeply into the present moment; setting aside worries about the past or the future. We’ll use mindfulness practice to gain access…
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