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The Sun Salutation – A Guide For Complete Yoga Beginners Pt One

The Sun Salutation – A Guide For Complete Yoga Beginners Pt One

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Author and Founder of Yoga Inspires Ntathu Allen shares the top 7 benefits of practising the Sun Salutation including a video demonstration and detailed How To Guide for Beginners.

Sun Salutation

Bless you and welcome dear friends to today’s post where I share with you, Part One of a mini-series, The Sun Salutation-A Guide For Complete Yoga Beginners.

Practising a few rounds of the Sun Salutations on a regular basis forms part of my daily self-care rituals  to boost my energy and calm and clear my mind.  If you are a yoga beginner, I hope you find practising the Sun Salutations a useful way to improve your flexibility, tone your body (especially your upper arms and tummy) and energise your mind, body and spirit.

And if you are into meditation, a few rounds of the Sun Salutation before you start your practice, is the perfect way to prepare your body to sit and meditate.

To start off, I’ll give you a brief description about the benefits of the Sun Salutation, followed by a video showing you how to practise this yoga exercise, plus written guidelines of the same practice.

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My Daily Self-Care Routine To Look After Myself

My Daily Self-Care Routine To Look After Myself

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Hi. Greetings, dear friends. I hope you’re well. In today’s blog, I share a video about my daily self-care routine.

I recently received an email from a member of our community asking me about my daily self-care routine and how I look after myself.

So, this video is just to give you an overview of my daily self-care routine and the things I like to do to look after my self.


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What Does My Self-Care Routine Look Like?

Basically, my self-care routine is part of my daily morning ritual.

It’s the things I do in the morning, and during the day to look after and nurture myself.

When I’m really organized, and I get enough sleep, I’ll be up between 5:30 a.m. and 6.00 a.m. [Read more…] about My Daily Self-Care Routine To Look After Myself

5 Simple Me-Time Techniques To Discover Your Balance

5 Simple Me-Time Techniques To Discover Your Balance

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Discover 5 simple me-time techniques to help you reduce stress and have more fun and quiet times in your day.

Am having a lazy Sunday morning lie-in and I randomly came across this article and thought “wow, what a gem.”

Timeless wisdom.

Gotta reshare.

So here it is!

Blessings and welcome dear yogis, friends and students. Thanks for returning and sharing your light and love. I trust you are well and enjoy today’s post. Thank you.

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What would you say to a newbie who was afraid of meditation?

What would you say to a newbie who was afraid of meditation?

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Greetings dear friends, as part of the 5 Day Unstoppable Marketing Momentum Challenge, organised by Jim Edwards and Jeff Herring, my task today, is to write a short 100-200 word article on the question “What would you say to a newbie who was afraid of meditation?”

Here is my article.

If you are thinking of starting meditation, yet feel unsure and afraid of doing it, I would suggest you try this simple breathing exercise, which will give you a flavour of what it is like to meditate.

  1. Find a quiet space; make sure you are sitting comfortably in your chair, rest your hands on your lap, close your eyes, breathe in slowly through your nose for a count of 1…2…3…. and breathe out through your nose, again for a count of 1…2…3… .

I would encourage you to breathe like that for five to seven times.

Then, open your eyes and notice how you feel.

How do you feel? What do you notice about your thoughts?

What difficulties did you face in doing this simple breathing exercise?

I’d love to hear your experience.

Email me at [email protected]  or share how you feel in the comments box below.

Closing thoughts

If you are still interested curious in learning more about meditation and how it can help you reduce stress and feel calm, check out my e-Book Meditation For Beginners: The Essential Guide To Reduce Stress and Anxiety and Live A Healthy, Calm and Happy Life.

Click here to buy your copy today.

I look forward to sharing Day 2 of this Challenge with you tomorrow.

Stay blessed and be well.

Ntathu

 

Here’s My Bedtime Routine 2016 Goal Update

Here’s My Bedtime Routine 2016 Goal Update

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Hugs and blessings gentle readers and how are you today? Welcome to this week’s vblog “Here’s My Bedtime Routine 2016 Goal Update.

Well, we are now into the 7th week of 2016 and I’m wondering how you are getting on with sticking with your 2016 New Year Resolutions. Did you make any?

One of my 2016 health and wellness goals is to have a “Restful Bedtime Routine and Be In Bed by 1030pm.

Over the years, I have become a night owl and these days, my body needs the rest. So, I thought, making 1030pm my bedtime, would be a good habit to aim for. However, as you’ll see from last week’s vlog and today’s video, I’m kinda struggling to be in bed before midnight.


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This week, I’ve managed to be in bed before midnight on only two occasions (11.08pm and 11.45pm) I’m going to keep making “being in bed by 1030pm” my One Thing because when I do, I always wake up feeling rested and naturally full of energy the following morning, which has a positive effect on the rest of my day.

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I have been doing quite a bit of reading and research around the whole topic of sleep, which I am looking forward to writing up as one of my Kindle eBooks.

Like most women over 50, I’m very aware of my health and the need to [Read more…] about Here’s My Bedtime Routine 2016 Goal Update

My Bedtime Routine – Week 1 Update

My Bedtime Routine – Week 1 Update

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Relax 3 Ways To Bring More Calm Into Your LifeBless and hugs dear friends and welcome to today’s video blog where I look at “my bedtime routine” and share how I’m getting on with my 2016 Goal of “Getting More Sleep” by being in bed between 10.00pm to 11.00pm.

What time do you get to bed?

Do you have a set time to go to bed? Follow a particular “evening bedtime ritual?”

Watch the video and find out how I got on this week with “being in bed between 1000pm to 11.00pm.”


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As you can see from the video, week 1 wasn’t very successful.

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Motivational Message For Women – Morning Ritual Challenge Day 9

Motivational Message For Women – Morning Ritual Challenge Day 9

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Bless you Gentle Reader and how are you today?

Have you heard of morning rituals?

Like you I am proud to be a woman, however, like most of you, learning to accept and embrace my feminine power and strength has been a journey.

In today’s video, I share with you a short video about how I am learning to embrace and enjoy all aspects of my being as part of my morning ritual. I am currently participating in a 30 Day Morning Ritual Challenge and loving the group support, structure and benefits of consistently sticking with a morning routine.

Watch the video and I’d love to know your thoughts and feelings about being a woman.


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Final Thoughts

And if are interested in finding out more about the 30 Day Morning Ritual Challenge I am currently on, please check out this link for further details. Thank you.

Keep shining and having a beautiful day.

Ntathu