yoga

Let yoga help you move through Ramadan

There are many reasons why yoga has kept people calm and centered for thousands of years. Known for its numerous physical and mental benefits, yoga’s slow paced, meditative and restorative nature also makes it the ideal exercise to do when fasting. Here’s why if you haven’t started, Ramadan might be the perfect time. Relieve stress Yoga and meditation, coupled with appropriate medical care, can help a person navigate out of a dark place. When you are feeling lost,

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Natalie Abushakra, founder of Sacral Grounds.

Livehealthy approved: Yoga and sound healing at Sacral Grounds 

Given the city’s love for fitness, I don’t think it’s possible for Abu Dhabi to have too many yoga studios.   However, in order to sway my loyalty away from my usual favorite gyms, or indeed my much-loved YouTube yoga instructors, they have to offer something special.  Sacral Grounds, the new yogi hotspot at Mina Souq by Zayed Port, is certainly unique. With a capacity of just eight people per class, it’s definitely the smallest yoga

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Nancy zabaneh addiction

‘Addiction is an escape hatch from pain’

When Dubai-based Canadian Nancy Zabaneh moved from corporate banking to the wellness world, it was a deep dive. She’s a Kundalini yoga instructor and a compassionate inquiry therapist, practicing a psychotherapeutic approach founded by the Canadian physician, author, speaker and addiction specialist Dr Gabor Maté. People usually think of drugs or alcohol when they think of addiction. But as Nancy explains, the addiction is really whatever we use to escape from pain. “When we use it repeatedly,

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Alex McRobert Sober Yoga Girl

Life of the party to Sober Yoga Girl

Only after she quit drinking alcohol did party girl Alex McRobert understand how alcohol had affected her mental health since her teens and it led her to become a coach for others who want to be sober.

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Black and yoga

‘I look forward to seeing more Black yoga practitioners’

Being Black in the yoga and wellness space is like being Black in many places: you often find that you’re the only one in the room and you regularly come up against discrimination. My experience as a student, both in the United States and in the UAE, has been that it is difficult to find truly inclusive wellness studios and spaces. It’s even more difficult to find Black representation among teachers. The cultural appropriation of

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