Regina Trailweaver
Night Without Power...or was it?
We lost power around 3:30 on Friday afternoon. Rounded up our candles (including a big box of shabbat candles that I had set aside) and...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
Regina's Review
Yoga for A World Out of Balance by Michael Stone I appreciated the introduction in which the author shared that he began his journey as...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Nov 25, 2022
- 7 min
A Small Amount of DNA May Go A Long Way: My Last Name and My Ancestry
At the age of 8, my parents placed my younger sister, almost 7, but technically still 6, and myself in the care of my boyfriend’s...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Sep 29, 2022
- 4 min
Portugal:Small Country,Big Heart
Exhausted and burned out from working in the fields of mental health and yoga through two and a half years of the pandemic, I left for 10...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Aug 17, 2022
- 5 min
Creating Space Can Change Your Life
There are many ways in which we deny ourselves space. Often, we don’t even make room for ourselves in our own lives. We spend our time...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Mar 29, 2022
- 7 min
Sangha or Sadhana: Yoga, Community, and Brain Health
Is it better to practice yoga with a group or solo? Yoga invites us to do both. Sadhana refers to your regular, (daily if possible,)...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Feb 1, 2022
- 4 min
Yoga for Your Immune System
I am very intrigued by the role that yoga plays in building immunity. None of my yoga students who practice regularly, nor myself, have...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Aug 2, 2021
- 4 min
Healing Yoga Through Trauma Part 2 The Power of Restorative Yoga
Because trauma impacts the nervous system, it can be difficult to address the symptoms and effects of trauma by just talking about it,...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min
Healing Trauma Through Yoga: Part 1 Understanding Trauma
The symptoms of trauma can range from subtle to overwhelming. You might feel tired, sad, or anxious or simply numb and disconnected. You...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Jul 3, 2021
- 1 min
Camping: The Way We Used to Live
"The yogin walked into the forest, built a fire, and sat down to meditate." The ancient Vedic and Vedantic literature contain thousands...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Nov 27, 2020
- 5 min
Self Care is Not a Treat
We all hear advice like: get enough sleep, do restorative yoga, take time out to get together with a friend, do more barefoot walking on...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
YOGA IS NOT ABOUT FLEXIBILITY
Starting something is not hard. Sticking to a routine is where it gets more tricky. You are more likely to stick to something that you...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Sep 27, 2020
- 3 min
Becoming Tree
Tree pose has been a playful practice of mine for many years. Like so many of the yoga practices, there is no bottom to the depth of...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Aug 22, 2020
- 2 min
Grounding and Centering
are the most important actions we can take when life gets turbulent. Like a mountain, we want to embody the strength of the earth while...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Jan 5, 2020
- 3 min
Sadhana: One of Yoga's Magic Tricks
In the first yoga class that I taught this year, I asked if anyone had made new year’s resolutions. ZERO percent of the class, including...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Aug 24, 2019
- 6 min
An Ethical Response to Refugees
No Yogi, no Christian, no person of religious conviction, moral value, or ethical code, can condone ethnic cleansing. Nor can a person of e
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Regina Trailweaver
- May 27, 2019
- 6 min
An Ancient Template for Wholeness: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras became popularized in the west during the 1960s when all the good stuff happened: the Beatles, the civil rights movement...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Jan 3, 2019
- 5 min
overcoming obstacles and dissolving obstructions
The kleshas, the five causes of suffering, are often what bring us to yoga. We find some relief and feel better, freer, lighter, and...
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Regina Trailweaver
- Jun 6, 2018
- 7 min
Family, Floods, and Friends
I left home early Friday morning, May 18th, and flew from Burlington, Vermont to Charlotte, North Carolina, with a layover in NYC. Upon...
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