Health is number one on the agenda: Everywhere you look there are experts giving advice on how to improve your health. Magazines, TV shows, movies, online articles etc. aim to grab our attention 24/7, 365 days a year. The most common way used for the general public to outline their health is Body Mass Index. Body Mass Index (BMI) is …
Has social media changed the practice of yoga:
The social media takeover: The global takeover of social media, especially platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Meaning we are living in technological-driven modern world. On the plus side, there is an endless pool of yoga advice, poses and online classes we can get involved in. When it comes to modern yoga, social media now offers us unique opportunities …
Using yoga to counter seating habits: Standing up without arm support.
A forgotten basic skill?: In the current climate, we are saturated with endless options for quite literally everything. Including, an unlimited new seating options. As a result, there is too much variety of comfortable chairs, fashionable sofas and ergonomic work seats available to us. Even with all the benefits available from these things brought into our lives: such as greater …
How yoga can be beneficial as we age
Yoga is an universally performed exercise for people of all ages. The numerous different forms of yoga, means there are potential benefits for everyone. The focus of this article is how yoga can be especially beneficial for us during the mid to later stages of our lives.
How yoga can improve your sleep!
A Melo introduction to the new year: Hello to everyone again, this is officially our first article of 2023! Melo Yoga is officially stepping in to the new year… only two months late. To start our year, we felt like speaking about something that relates to us all… that would be sleep. In general, most of us probably feel like …
Welcoming a new member to the family.
Mak showing symptoms of being very poorly: It’s a new day and we are off to collect a new friend for Chester. His name is Levi. Chester is our remaining American guinea pig. Mak our beautiful alpaca guinea pig unfortunately passed. The previous Friday, Mak started to show symptoms of being very poorly – football training finished around 9 pm …
Exploring the health benefits of endurance training.
A few weeks ago I ran 132.8km in 24 hours for a race. In contrast, London to Northampton is around 98km apart! As tough as long-distance running can be, some of the mental and psychological benefits we can receive from this form of training are underappreciated. Endurance training does not have to be too extreme. However, the purpose of the …
Running towards inner peace.
Life lessons from a 24-hour race.
The role of spirituality in yoga.
Learning from the past: Even though previous articles have shortly mentioned the spiritual side of yoga (Melo Yoga talks about cultural appropriation). The next logical step is to dive deeper into how yoga can reconnect us all on a more intimate level with our spirit. As previously mentioned in earlier articles. Yoga including its philosophies and teachings of yoga was …
How do you like your coffee in the morning?
98 million a day. That is how many cups of coffee we in the UK consume every single day! But, how does this relate to yoga? There has been a continuous debate surrounding the usage of ingesting caffeine before practicing yoga. Coincidentally, the article aims to outline whether caffeine has a positive or negative effect on your yoga practice? Or, …
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