I’m a huge fan of yoga. I routinely prescribe it, for everything from back pain to insomnia. My love for yoga is personal, but it’s also professional. And the best part? It’s backed up by a whole lot of research.
Here are some of the ways yoga can make you healthier and happier:
1. Yoga can help treat depression.
There are many reasons yoga is a wonderful adjunctive or alternative therapy for depression. It’s stress-relieving, promotes mindfulness, and is a good form of exercise—strategies known to improve depression.
If you're headed to BlissDom Canada this year, you're probably getting pretty excited.
You might also be freaking out just a little.
Or, a lot.
For many of us, conferences can be stressful and exhausting. It might be the travel issue, the awkward moments of trying to remember someone's name, the stress of trying to fit everything in to a compressed chunk of time. Maybe you’re dreading leaving your kids for a few days (both a stressor and a stress-reliever, in my book...but maybe that’s just me).
If you've got little ones, does it feel like your neurons are dying as you read Goodbye Moon (as lovely as it is) for the 246th time? If you've got older kids is their math homework making you break out in a sweat? There are many reasons for wanting to upgrade your smarty-pants quotient. But is there anything you can do?
Feeling a little sluggish? Thinking: a siesta would really hit the spot right now?
Sorry, Mummy. Not an option.
Having a down day might be possible for some people, but not moms. The needs of our little ones don’t go away just because we’re not feeling up to it. There’s no phoning it in on this job.
Personally, I am a big fan of sleep. I haven't been getting as much of it, lately, as I'd like (my 18-month-old only recently started sleeping through the night)...and, frankly, it sucks.
