How Do We Develop a Global Community

In our last newsletter, I was excited to announce that we had finally reached every continent in the world. I had also written a blog about what that meant to me and my team after all these years of striving for this goal.

The goal of reaching different parts of the world is only the beginning. Just because we have connected with more individuals from all over doesn't mean we have built the community yet.

Building a community is the next goal; this is what this Hub was built for. A community where we can continue to educate each other, bring awareness and consciousness, share stories and more. This is not meant to be a "MySpace," "Facebook," or "Twitter"; the goal is building an educational hub.

This can only happen with your participation. Yes, YOU. We have built the core and continue to improve on it. This all takes time especially because we are funding it personally. We need your help and support to improve it the best we can. I encourage you to share your feedback and your "productive" criticism. How else can this site revolve around you without your input?

You can reach me through MyYogaHub/Christina. Send me a message, I promise I will respond as soon as possible.

Blessings to all,
Christina Souza Ma

Yoga and Addiction Recovery

Every one of us has some kind of addiction. But while some are harmless habits that we engage in without even thinking twice, others are self-perpetuating vicious cycles that can control and derail our lives completely.

Whether it's a caffeine "fix" or ingesting drugs, we need to address these compulsive cravings - especially the ones that can damage our bodies and minds - and learn to control our addictions before they control us.

Although our addictions are usually manifested by physical activity, the root of the problem lies in our mental incapacity to deal with them. The western medical approach to addiction recovery is to treat the mental and physical components of addiction separately. Take smoking, for example. Nicotine chewing gum is a way of eliminating the psychological craving for cigarettes while still physically providing nicotine. The general idea is that eliminating the psychological need for cigarettes will eventually result in a physical break of the craving for cigarettes.

While this method is effective to a certain degree, in the long run it can become more of a band aid than an actual solution. Since the psychological dependency is still there, it allows the addiction to regain control.

On the other hand, holistic approaches such as yoga recognize the link between the mind and the body and therefore treat the addiction as a whole instead of treating it by isolating one or the other component.

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With this in mind, many recovery programs are now turning to yoga as a more effective, holistic style of treatment and a way of helping addicts establish conscious control over their cravings.

The discipline of yoga is about learning how to bring the body, mind, and spirit into peaceful alignment. By regularly focusing on the mental techniques of detachment and moderation required in yoga, we can establish control over our addictions and impulses.

We empower ourselves when we learn how to understand and cope with our reactions through a regular yoga practice. We stop being controlled by our addictions and cease feeling cornered by them, and it then becomes easier for us not to fall into the self-perpetuating cycle of addiction and recovery.

For more information on the benefits of yoga on treating addictions, click here: Treating Addictions the Holistic Way.

YogaHub Updates:

Okay, so how is everyone doing with their navigation through our site?

Well, if any of you have read my blog on MyYogaHub you will know that the team has been working on a series of tutorials for us. I say "us" in reference to those of you who are not techies out there, such as myself. I personally need help with the simplest things.

So this coming week, the team will be posting the first of the short video tutorials for us with many more to follow. I asked them to make each one short and to the point so that you can follow along easily.

If there are any requests, please contact our team directly through our online or live chat support, or just pick up the phone and call us directly - we would love to hear from you. We would like to know if these are a benefit to you.

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My YogaHub and Twitter Anyone? by Christina Souza Ma

Okay, do you remember one of my previous blogs about social networking?

I couldn't believe that I didn't know what to do in MyYogaHub. I didn't know how to use it even though it was a tool we had built for the community.

I was frazzled!

I was petrified! Continue Reading...

"Yogic Form" in the Wilderness by Francesca Silva

So I was telling you in my last blog about how yoga managed to find me, even in the wilderness.

While we were at the cabin by the lake, six people in their early twenties were staying in another cabin next to us. One morning, I walked out onto our deck and saw three lovely girls in bikinis practicing their yoga on their dock. I watched them for a while, impressed by their balancing skills. Then my husband came out to see what I was doing and he proceeded to watch them, commenting on how "fine their yogic form" was (uh-uh…never says that about me - and what would he know about "yogic form" anyway)! Well, of course, that comment brought the other men out - and the next thing they knew, those girls ended up having an audience! Continue Reading...