This is Your Brain on Yoga with Dr. Daya Gran...

This is our second in a series of solocasts (you might remember that Andrea did one recently, Why Mindfulness is Still Important). In this week's episode, I explain why strength matters for yoga practitioners and teachers — not as a performance goal, but as a foundational quality ...  Show more

On this week's podcast, Jason outlines why the old models of yoga sequencing are no longer effective in today's landscape. To name a few: More people cross-train. Fewer students are walking into studios. ClassPass has changed loyalty. Online platforms have shifted expectations. I ...  Show more

What do you do to maintain the health of your brain? You probably already know about the importance of mental stimulation and problem solving for the health of your brain. But the truth is, our brain is an incredibly complex system that can be affected by many internal and extern ...  Show more

Distraction is one of the top complaints of meditators -- and of pretty much every human being, in this era that has been dubbed the "info blitzkrieg." In this episode, we'll hear from Dr. Amishi Jha, who has spent years studying the impact of meditation on people who work in ...

Every morning, my guest on this week’s episode starts her day with 30-minutes of exercise. She knows – from personal experience backed by scientific research – that this makes her more focused, happy, motivated, and even creative. She knows it’ll help her grow new brain cells and ...  Show more

Yoga meditation is one of the oldest meditation traditions on earth and also has the widest variety of practices. As you know yoga is not only a physical exercise but has meditative and spiritual attributes too. Thus, yoga meditation not only proves beneficial to the body ...