Female Health . Yoga
Yoga during pregnancy for normal delivery
On October 4, 2022 by marghevivianiAs a Yoga Teacher, I’ve studied also Prenatal Yoga and Yoga Postpartum. But also I tried them both on myself. Currently, I am 5 months pregnant for the second time, and this time I have more yoga in my life than in my first pregnancy. And I wanna tell you that if you are pregnant doesn’t mean that you can practice only Prenatal yoga. Yoga in general has beneficial results on women during pregnancy. If you love yoga you can still practice Hatha, Vinyasa, or Restorative. Simply that your teacher must know how to adjust you for any lesson. In this post, I will talk about the benefits of prenatal yoga, and I’ll give you tips on how to practice yoga safely during pregnancy. Importance of Prenatal Yoga Yoga incorporates the principles of stretching, breathing, and posture throughout pregnancy from 14 weeks to delivery.The importance of practice is as follows: Yoga in early pregnancy Read more17 Ways to avoid burnouts and be happierFocus and taking care of yourself and rest (first 14-16 weeks) Yoga in mid-pregnancy Focus on extension and centering (16 to 33 weeks) Yoga in late pregnancy Focus on releasing and letting go (from 33 weeks to delivery) How to practice yoga safely during pregnancy Join me for Prenatal Yoga Read more4 Steps to kick-start your plant based dietAs I mentioned before, I am currently five months pregnant, and we can go through our practice together in my Online Yoga Studio. I offer the first lesson for free to everyone. Only what you have to do is to register here and chose a “Free Lesson pass” which won’t cost you any cent. And book your first lesson at any time that is comfortable for you 🙂 Read also Vegetarian diet during Pregnancy. Hope you find this post useful. Feel free to contact me or comment below and ask any questions about Yoga during Pregnancy. I am here at your service. Subscribe to the newsletter or follow my Instagram to stay in touch 🙂 Always yours, Marghe
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My favourite yoga gear essentials
On September 17, 2022 by marghevivianiToday I would like to share my favorite yoga gear essentials. I have all of them for my practice and teaching. But it doesn’t mean you have to have them all. I simply share what might be useful for your practice or as a present to your yogi friend. Yoga start being loved more and more every year, by men and women. There are so many benefits to practicing yoga, I can ensure you that as a yoga teacher and a student. Even though many new yogis think that only a yoga mat is enough, which is not exactly true. A few more things will make your practice even deeper. Read more BENEFITS OF YOGA. AND WHY PEOPLE DO YOGA? This post may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Here is the list: To complete your practice check the Playlist for Yoga practice. And feel free to share in the comments below what is your favorite yoga gear essentials. I would like to remind you that I have opened Online Yoga Studio. And I am offering free yoga session for new yogis registered in my studio. Just check the schedule, choose the lesson you like, register, and then purchase the “Free lesson Pass” and join the lesson 🙂 See you in the studio! Subscribe for newsletter or follow my instagram to stay in touch. Yours Marghe
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Playlist for yoga practice
On September 14, 2022 by marghevivianiIn this post, I share my favorite yoga playlist from Apple music that you can also listen on your computer. Stillness of the mind Traditionally yoga is a spiritual practice, in which silence may feel fit better. Still, yoga is basically about inner silence or rather inner stillness. Patanjali (one of the founding fathers of the yoga philosophy) defines yoga as “ Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha ”. From Sanskrit, this means as important as yoga stilling the mind. You may also call it turning inward or coming home to yourself and your body while the mind quiets. Music can support this turning inward. It can help you to get into that physical and internal inflow. So in this sense, using music doesn’t have to abstract from the yoga tradition. Playing music to support your inflow and soul-searching may be kindly different than how Patanjali intended the yoga sutras when he wrote them down some centuries BC, but we also can not deny how important the world and the way we exercise yoga have changed since also. In my particular experience music is really helpful to find my inner stillness and inflow during my yoga practice. Of course, this is different for everyone, but especially when you’re fluently distracted music can be great to mute background noises. Yoga playlist I would like to remind you that I have opened Online Yoga Studio. And I am offering free yoga session for new yogis registered in my studio. Just check the schedule, choose the lesson you like, register, and then purchase the “Free lesson Pass” and join the lesson 🙂 To complete your practice check my Yoga Archive. Feel free to subscribe to be updated about new posts or follow my Instagram. Yours Marghe
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Yoga retreats you still have time to book
On September 10, 2022 by marghevivianiHow was your summer? Did you find a chance to go somewhere? If not, then take a look at this post. Here you can find a Yoga Retreat that suits you the most, whether you wanna visit Bali, Italy, or the USA. The cool thing is that all of them are available for this year, and some of them are even for 2023. I tried to be very picky as usual, to find the best offers and locations. So I hope you will like my taste 🙂 Go ahead and give it a look. This post contain affiliate links. Means that I can get commission. And it wouldn’t have any extra charge for you. 1. Spain | 8 Day Relax and Rejuvenate Wellness Holiday with Yoga What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 1,064 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 2. France | 7 Day Holistic Meditation and Yoga Retreat in Côte d’Azur What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 693 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 3. Portugal | 8 Day Surf and Yoga for Beginners in an Ecolodge in Maceda What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 495 Next available dates: This vacation is available until October 31, 2022. 4. Bali | 7 Day 100% Organic Body-Mind Detox, Daily Spa & Yoga-Meditation What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 818 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 5. Greece | 8 Day Sailing, Yoga, and SUP in Cyclades What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 1,290 Next available dates: This vacation is available until October 22, 2022. 6. India | 7 Day Luxury Ayurveda Yoga Meditation Retreat in Kerala What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 990 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 7. USA | 4 Day Yoga, Meditation, and Wellness Holiday in Kingfield, Maine What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 1,230 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 8. Italy | 4 Day Swimming & Yoga Holiday on the Edge of the Abruzzi N. Park What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 229 Next available dates: This vacation is available until November 18, 2022 9. UK | 4 Day Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda Retreat in Hereford What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 700 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. 10. Thailand | 6 Day Yoga & Wellness Retreat and Day Trips in Phuket What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 722 Next available dates: This vacation is available all year round, you can decide yourself when to participate. Let me know if you chose one 🙂 There is another post might be interested for you BEST YOGA RETREATS IN ITALY FOR 2022. Subscribe for newsletter to be updated or follow my Instagram to stay in touch! Yours, Marghe
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How to meditate properly
On July 13, 2022 by marghevivianiEveryone asks this question. But there is no answer on How to meditate PROPERLY. It takes time to get used to it first, and then to train yourself to enter a meditative state. The meditation itself has super easy steps, but you might say, is not easy to practice. The most difficult here is to start 🙂 Just start doing it, today 3 mins, tomorrow 4 mins, until you arrive to 20-30 mins at least. In this post, you will find a complete guide on how to meditate and how to understand your progress. Meditation goes beyond positive thinking. It teaches us that we already have all we need, and that, by creating space and silence within, we can experience the peace and bliss of our true Self. This post contain affiliate links. Means that I can get commission. And it wouldn’t have any extra charge for you. Mental benefits How to meditate Let’s determine how to meditate correctly by your own. It is actually very easy to do if you know the steps. Meditation requires focusing you attention on one object. Practice daily for 20-30 minutes. Find a clean, quiet space (a cluttered or dirty environment will distract the mind) and sit in a comfortable position with your back straight (either in the chair, or in a crossed leg position), then begin. 1. Focus on your breath. Start with a few deep and slow breaths to trigger a relaxation response in your nervous system. 2. Focus on your third eye or the centre of your chest (area of your heart), to ground your mind and start channelling its energy. 3. Slow your breathing to a minimum, inhale and exhale silently for 3-4 seconds. Try to make your exhalation longer than inhalation. Clearly instruct your mind to slow down and relax. 4. Focus your chosen point of concentration. This should be one of the following subjects: 5. Finish your meditation session on a feeling of gratefulness and/or a short prayer for the world. The best for it to take you hands in Anjali mudra (closed palms together close to your heart center). Your progress is not necessarily measured by the your success in focusing your mind, or by whether you have special experience during your meditation practice. You will know that you are on the right track mainly by the way you feel the rest of the day: Do not force the mind to meditate. Understand the mind first; study three gunas*. Only then will meditation be smooth and easy. Swami Sivananda My favourite meditation app Honestly, I was never using any apps for meditations, because all I was founding were quite expensive. One I wanted to sigh-up is from Deepak Chopra, but they ask for a very high price that I think is unreasonable. And just not long time ago I found out this one Yours App and I fell in love. It has a very beautiful and minimalistic interface, plus for a small subscription fee you get not only daily meditations, but also yoga and life-coaching sessions. There are also many other features that make this app even more valuable. You can check it by clicking this link. Hope you find it as useful as I found 🙂 Hope this post was useful for you. Please feel free to share your meditation experience or any questions in the comments below or contact me straight here. Subscribe for newsletter to be updated about new posts or follow me on my Instagram to stay in touch! Yours Marghe
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Best Yoga Retreats in Italy for 2024
On June 29, 2022 by marghevivianiHow long have you been thinking to take a vacation? But think about not just a vacation, but a Yoga or Meditation Retreat. Is a unique experience that will bring positive changes to you. Imagine meeting new like minded people, doing spiritual practices every day and exploring new country at the same time. I do honestly prefer to go for a Yoga Retreat, rather alone, or with all the family or some friends. As you come back home being on a new level. Is not just to book a hotel, you book literally book a hotel room with experience. And here I prepared the list of the Best Yoga Retreat in Italy you can consider to do in 2023. I tried to be very picky, so all of them has very nice accommodation, beautiful locations and fare offer. Let’s begin 🙂 This post contain affiliate links. Means that I can get commission. And it wouldn’t have any extra charge for you. 1. Kitesurf, SUP and Yoga Holidays in Sicily – 4 Days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €445 2. Yoga Immersion at the Beach in Ispica, Sicily – 4 Days What to expect: Price for one person start from €338 3. Stand-Up Paddle and Yoga Holiday with a Kitesurfing Lesson in Sicily – 8 Days What to expect: Price for one person start from €907 4. Yoga Retreat in Tuscany by the sea in Grosseto – 5 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €555 Next available dates: July 4, 2022 For more information and booking click here. 5. Relax and Reconnect Yoga Holiday in Borgo di Gello, Tuscany – 6 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €995 Next available dates : September 3 or 10, 2022 6. Yoga, Hiking and Biking Retreat in province of Lucca, Tuscany – 7 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from € 1,268 Next available dates: this Retreat has flexible dates, you can decide yourself when to participate. 7. Next Chapter: Women’s Yoga, Sacred Rituals and Ceremonies Retreat in Val D’Orcia Valley – 7 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €1,650 Next available dates: September 17, 2022 8. The Transformation of Life: Yoga and Excursion Retreat on Tuscany – 7 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €2,430 Next available dates: August 7, 2022 9. Fitness and Yoga Retreat in between sea and mountain, Tuscany – 8 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €2,073 Next available dates: September 3, 2022 10. Tuscan Sun Yoga Retreat in province of Siena, Tuscany – 5 days What to expect: Price for one person starts from €805 Next available dates: October 4, 2022 Here we are! I hope this post was useful for you and you will find your best holiday for this year 😉 Subscribe for newsletter or follow my Instagram to stay in touch! Yours Marghe
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Benefits of Yoga. And why people do Yoga?
On May 22, 2021 by marghevivianiThe concept of yoga is the way more complicated than other might think. Is not only a physical activity to have less back pain or meditations to reduce stress, which are only smaller part of benefits of yoga. Is the way much deeper, is the way you decide to live you life. Check out also HOW YOGA CHANGED MY LIFE. THE STORY OF A YOGA TEACHER. «When we practice, we experience. When we experience, we are completely convinced of the effects of yoga. And when we are involved, we can involve others. We may share different concepts of yoga to our friends and family according to what we’ve got experienced». Yoga – To Yolk – Union Union with people, nature, with yourself and higher reality. It about getting back our awareness about life and ourselves. Yoga us a union and way to that union. Why people do Yoga? For training and controlling four aspects: While we are practicing yoga for bettering our body it will work on our attitude, breath, mind, emotions, moral duty, action and most importantly our interpersonal relations. The different paths of Yoga 1. Bhakti (Emotional) – bhaja: to adore, love, to be devoted This is Yoga of devotion, of love. The purpose is to develop intense concentration towards one object. Emotional and mental problems disappear, concentration increase and path higher awareness and bliss is open. 2. Karma (Physical) – selfless, service, humanity. It’s performance of our daily life (work) with constant awareness and without any expectation of reward. It’s about living at the present moment. This path is open to everyone. But it requires selfless, as well as concentrated actions and awareness. Result is less emotional and mental upsets in life and peace. 3. Jnana (Mental) – knowledge, wisdom, self inquiry, intuitive. The truth is realised through inside. This path is open but only few people are really ready for it. Jnana Yoga requires an obsession to find out the answers. To make progress we have to throw out all definitions about our existence. 4. Raja – Royal, 8 limbs, self mastery, Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga ‘Ha’ – sun; ‘tha’- moon It’s a balance of opposites, dualities of life through physical practice. Preparation for Raja Yoga, to step on the next level. Hatha Yoga consist of: Hatha Yoga tries to achieve balance between body and mind, to get a balance between right and left sides of the body. right: Sun, male side, warm left: Moon, female, cool Ashtanga Yoga (8 limbs) 1. Regulations, self restraints. Our interactions with external world (Yamas) 2. Self-observances. Our interactions with internal world (Niyamas) 3. Postures (Asanas) 4. Breath control (Pranayama) 5. Withdrawal of the senses (Pratyahara) 6. Concentration (Dharana) 7. Meditation (Dhyana) 8. Identification with pure consciousness (Samadhi) Benefits of Yoga Physical Mental And is not all! Everyone who choose this path, finds his own benefits of Yoga, as a very individual experience. I also prepared a list of best Yoga Retreats in Italy, close the area where I live, in Tuscany. Let me know if you are practicing yoga already, or if you would like to practice it. And feel free to leave your comment or contact me here. Subscribe to my Instagram here. Yours Marghe
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How yoga changed my life. The story of a Yoga Teacher
On February 21, 2021 by marghevivianiYoga journey lasts forever. I remember that day when I went to yoga class first time, I was around 13, and I didn’t like it at all! And now I am Certified Yoga Teacher 🙂 But I came back to the idea of practicing five years later. At that moment happened everything together. I start having health troubles because of working in China, my heart was broken from love and I was simply lost inside. My yoga started with the Nike Training app. Yes yes, I was practicing on my own a good while before going for a class with a real teacher. But honestly, I took maybe three classes with the teacher which is my best friend. Practicing on my own seemed more fun. Especially when you travel a lot for work is much more convenient. So I start loving it! I felt my body more and more flexible, my chest more open and my back strong and straight. What was very important for being a model. After a while also a menstrual pain went away. I never struggled with it much, but like everyone, I felt uncomfortable these days. And yoga changed everything completely. Also now, if I have some cramps again I simply do the practice. One more, the coolest benefit is a calm and peaceful mind. The world becomes way more different inside of you. During super stressful work I was able to stay calm and happy. And even after few years, I was not going much to practice in studios. My best teachers were on YouTube and I could create a space for practice everywhere I was. And is true, you don’t need much to start. Is enough to have a yoga mat, some aromas, and your body 🙂 Now the internet is full full full of free classes of any style you want. You might visit few private classes only to check if you don’t do any mistakes. This is how I did. So, my body became better, my health improved and I got more conscious about myself and the world around me. I started to promote yoga to everyone. I was even leading few classes for my model roommates. At that point, I decided to quit the job of the model and go somewhere to study for a yoga teacher. I wanted to go to India. I still want, but something was changing my way all the time. And I went for a course in Bali. I studied Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga, together with breath and meditation techniques. And I became a member of the Worldwide Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher. Now, yoga is my life. I always have my yoga mat, essences, and yoga pants to be able to practice everywhere I am 🙂 I also encourage you to read this article Benefits from Yoga. And why people do Yoga? Please feel free to leave comments below or follow my instagram to stay in touch. Have a great day!