May 24, 2023 in Lifestyle When we were younger, we used to hear our grandparents talk about turmeric all the time. They would call it the best thing for just about any ailment—from a common cold to a more serious illness. While always intrigued, we never really understood the hype. For centuries, people used the [...]
May 17, 2023 in Health + Wellness “Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.” --Henri Poincare What [...]
May 12, 2023 in Spotlight A holistic veterinarian and yoga teacher in Saint Cloud, MN, Laura Willenbring teaches through her own platform, Back to Center. Sheworks on her family farm with her husband when she’s not tending to animals or guiding yogis. I talked with Willenbring about the interconnected web of nature and how she [...]
May 10, 2023 in Lifestyle As our businesses evolve, our business plan changes too! You may have been required to write a business plan to obtain a small business loan and launch your business. Then maybe you put the business plan binder on the shelf or close the file safely in your computer’s documents, in [...]
May 5, 2023 in Yoga + Movement Western culture can make it difficult to love our bodies. Inherited hierarchies and divisive dualism pervade the language and mythology. Spirit and body are separated, and body — with its messiness and mortality — falls into something that must be feared and controlled. When I studied Eastern philosophy [...]
May 3, 2023 in Health + Wellness Western science affirms that Ayurvedic lifestyle and energy management practices extend telomere length, protecting us from decline and disease. What are telomeres, and how do they affect aging? Telomeres are DNA sequences at the end of a chromosome, protecting it from fraying and safeguarding our genetic code. [...]
April 28, 2023 in Health + Wellness If you’ve ever participated in Yoga Nidra, you’ve probably been prompted to create a Sankalpa. It’s a bit of a tall order, especially since in most Yoga Nidra scripts, you’re given about 10 seconds to tune in to your heartfelt desire. But taking time on your own to [...]
April 26, 2023 in Spotlight We found Hillman Retreat House in February of 2021, at the very beginning of our search for a lakeside property. The pandemic was just hitting its one year anniversary, and it was that late winter season when everyone in Minnesota starts getting restless for Spring. We were ripe for a [...]
April 21, 2023 in Yoga + Movement In ten years of teaching yoga, whenever I ask students for requests of areas of the body to tend to, they consistently ask for hips and hamstrings. In an overly sedentary world, our hips and hamstrings fall into great discomfort. Common yet not normal to sit on the [...]
April 19, 2023 in Health + Wellness As I sit down to write this article, the words to Don’t Stop Believin’ keep rolling through my head. After all, I am a small town girl and often feel like I live in a lonely world. Perhaps you can relate to that feeling too: the one where [...]