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Welcome to the Asana at Home Yoga Blog — a place to learn, reflect, and deepen your understanding of yoga beyond the mat. Here you’ll find articles on poses, meditation, anatomy, philosophy, and the teaching life, all written by experienced instructors and passionate practitioners. Whether you’re exploring yoga for personal growth or professional development, our blog offers inspiration and practical guidance to support every stage of your practice.

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Health Blog

Yoga for Disability: Accessible Chair Yoga for Every Body

Yoga is for every body — and chair yoga makes that truth real. Whether you’re living with limited mobility, recovering from injury, or supporting someone with a disability, this gentle, adaptive style brings movement, breath, and connection back within reach.

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free yoga nidra meditation script for deep relaxation at home
Meditation Blog

Free Yoga Nidra Meditation Script for Relaxation

Yoga Nidra, often called yogic sleep, offers a gentle yet profound way to access inner calm, restore energy, and release tension. Practicing meditation with yoga nidra scripts helps you enter this restorative state with ease—whether you are brand new to meditation or a long-time practitioner.

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Mahatma Gandhi savasana meditation quotes
Meditation Blog

Savasana Meditation Quotes for Inspiring Students

Savasana meditation quotes are powerful tools to help us delve deeper into our yoga practice and connect to the present moment. In this blog post, we will explore these quotes and their impact on our lives, from the first step of our yoga journey to the place of radical acceptance

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Yoga Poses

23 Yoga Poses for Shoulder Pain: Relief and Flexibility

Shoulder pain is a common problem that affects millions of people worldwide. It often stems from poor posture, injuries, or tension in the shoulder muscles. The good news is that yoga can significantly alleviate shoulder pain and improve overall upper-body strength and flexibility. This article will explore some of the

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Man doing Seated Forward Bend Caterpillar Yin Yoga pose benefits for yoga for shoulder pain and a clean stomach exercise.
Yoga Poses

Caterpillar Pose Unveiling Yin Yoga’s Deep Stretch

Paschimottanasana, commonly called the Caterpillar Pose, is a beloved element of Yin Yoga known for its profound restorative and calming effects. In Sanskrit, ‘Paschima’ translates to ‘west’ or ‘back,’ ‘Uttana’ to ‘intense stretch,’ and ‘Asana’ to ‘pose.’ Thus, Paschimottanasana implies a deep stretch of the back body. This pose emulates

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Melanie De Villiers sitting crossed legged in a temple near Pune India
Yoga Instructor Blog

The Underground of Yoga​: A Personal Yoga Journey

I found some interesting shocks and knocks along the way. When you are vulnerable, you attract vultures looking for prey. The spiritual world is full of well-meaning manipulators. A single stay at an ashram in India can reveal a kaleidoscope of light and dark rays, reflected in pumping pop studios

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pregnant woman doing child's pose (known as Balasana in sanskrit) with a bolster under her torso. This pose is like the action of a child.
Yoga Poses

Child’s Pose (Balasana): Benefits, Variations, and Practice Tips

Child’s Pose, known as Balasana in Sanskrit, is a gentle, restorative yoga posture that practitioners from Ashtanga to Yin Yoga at every skill level appreciate. This simple yet powerful Pose helps calm the mind, relieve stress, and gently stretch the body, making it an essential part of any yoga routine.

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Melanie de Villiers sitting crossed leg doing yin yoga on a beach
Yoga Instructor Blog

How Yin Yoga Helped Me Find Wholeness Again

Last year, over Easter, my world shattered. Depleted, I locked myself inside my yoga studio in solitude. Rain poured outside, and my crying body curled into Yin postures. I was lost. Everything I believed in had collapsed. It felt like a mid-life crisis—but instead of divorcing my husband, I broke

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Chakra Blog

The 7 Chakras and Their Meaning – Beginner’s Guide

Many of us understand the Chakras as energy centers in the human body playing a vital role in our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. But you may be asking, what do the 7 chakras really mean? Where are they located and what about the chakra colors? And can this be

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Women practicing yoga squat on a beach of a lake. awareness of sacral chakra awakening symptoms
Chakra Blog

Sacral Chakra Awakening Symptoms and Healing Svadhisthana​

The sacral chakra, also known as the sex chakra or svadhisthana chakra, is the second of the seven main chakras in the human body. Its location is in the lower abdomen, just below the belly button (in the reproductive organs / pubic bone area). It governs our physical and creative

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Yoga Wellness Retreats and Festivals

Yoga Festivals and Conferences 2025 – The Ultimate Global Guide

Last Update April 7, 2025: I went through the Yoga Festivals and Conferences listings with missing 2025 dates, and now I have them all. I removed some conferences and festivals because their websites haven’t been updated or no longer exist. This list covers Yoga Festivals and Conferences in the USA,

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