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Patricia Schmidt

Surviving the COVID Years: Has Atlanta’s Yoga Scene Bounced Back?

Mar 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

But the yoga world, perhaps more than other communities, relied heavily on interpersonal and in-person connection. Breathing, moving, and being together in small indoor spaces for dedicated periods of time was a fundamental part of practicing yoga and its related arts.

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Is Meditation a Cure-All?

Feb 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt, Yoga Editor

Yogic wisdom has long offered key stepping stones along a path to enlightenment, including practices to hone focus, to withdraw the senses from the all-consuming physical world and to experience a subsequent immersion in meditation.

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Sankalpa: Where Intention and Purpose Meet

Jan 01, 2025 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

January 2025 is upon us, and it’s all about intentions and resolutions.

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Yoga Nidra: An Introduction to Yogic Sleep

Nov 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

As November brings cooler weather to the Southeast and, for many, an urge to retreat inside, there is no more perfect style of yoga to consider than introspective yoga nidra.

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Yoga Therapy and Other Healing Arts

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

Yoga therapy often weaves together with other healing arts partly because they are often programmed alongside one another in yoga studios. They also share common roots, such as ancient texts, practices and models of transmission.

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Yoga Therapy in a Western Context

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

As yoga therapy continues to establish itself as a credible part of healthcare in the United States, it is important to examine how it interfaces with Western medical environments.

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Taking Yoga Beyond Asana and Meditation

Sep 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

For the thousands of years that yoga has been around, practitioners and teachers have noted its therapeutic qualities.

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Rest is Always Available: Restorative Yoga in Metro Atlanta

Aug 01, 2024 06:00AM ● By Patricia Schmidt

This month’s article on restorative yoga continues Natural Awakening’s review of popular yoga styles in the Atlanta metro area. Restorative yoga classes are available at almost every major studio in Atlanta.

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