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- GWI Launches Yoga Therapy Initiative Chaired by Bija Bennett
- 5 Strategies from Yoga to Boost Your Immune System
- Emotional Wellness Practice: Feeling and Understanding Your Emotions
- The Healing Self: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection
- Open Focus: A Walking Meditation
- Don’t Lose Touch: A Natural Self-Healing Massage
- The Today Show
- Yoga Journal: Featured Thought-Leader Bija Bennett
- Taking Healing to New Perspectives
- Finding Focus: Meditation for Anxiety and Stress
- Show Me (a color meditation)
- Faith—Returning to Oneself
- Standing in the Flow: Engaging Your Emotional Wisdom
- What Moves You? See Bija’s article in AGEIST Magazine
- Being Lazy? That’s Good! The Rationale for Doing Nothing – See Bija’s article in AGEIST Magazine
- Calming Breath – A Video
- Tuning In: Meditation for Self-Awareness
- Four Breathing Practices to Ease the Path of Uncertainty
- The True Ethos of Yoga
- 5 Lessons on Spirituality, Activism and Humility I Learned From George Harrison
- Communing with Nature: Making Life Whole
- Crisis Fatigue? It’s Time to Learn How to Breathe Properly
- Natural Self Healing: How to Heal the Body and Mind Naturally
- How to Rake Leaves
- What is Viniyoga? The Art of Creating a Meaningful Yoga Practice
- The Unpredictable in Everyday
- 10 Rules for Life: John Cage
- A Life of Yoga: TKV Desikachar
- Yoga Definition: What is the True Meaning of Yoga?
- Deep Winter
- On An Emotional Walkabout
- Crying (a poem)
- What is Personal Power and How Do You Get It?
- Daily Personal Rituals for Self Care
- 4 Steps to Creating a Personal Ritual
- Overwhelmed? Here’s What To Do
- Phrenos: The Diaphragm
- Global Breath – A Healing Prayer
- On the Edge: Meditation for Letting Go of Control
- Fresh Breezes
- Stress is Personal
- Experience the Observer
- It Takes Heart to Feel
- Finding Your Emotional Guru
- Emotions and Health: Emotions are Good Medicine
- The River Flows
- Dive Deep
- Just Breathe
- The Wave
- The Power of the Breath
- Wet, Wild, and Windy
- Jazz
- A Wavy Sea
- Having a Listening Mind: How to Improve Mental Focus and Pay Attention
- How Do You Feel Intelligent?
- Breathing Lessons – Learning to Breathe Can Change Your Life
- Being Lazy (a poem)
- The Art of Taking Time
- What Does It Mean To Be Mindful?
- Meditation for Personal Growth and Spiritual Development
- Healing Matters: An Emerging Revolution
- Spring Cleaning: Practicing Purity
- Growing a Practice
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Books
- Meditations for the Five Senses (e-Book)
- The Breathing Breakthrough: Everything You Need to Know to Sharpen Your Focus, Worry Less, and Live Longer (Balboa Press, 2017)
- Breathing Into Life: Recovering Wholeness through Body, Mind & Breath (Balboa Press, 2017)
- It Takes a Culture: Building a Wellness Strategy for the Modern, Distracted, Uber-Individualized Workforce (e-Book)
- Emotional Yoga: How the Body Can Heal the Mind (Simon & Schuster, 2002)
- The Yoga Therapy Renaissance
Press
- Taking Healing to New Perspectives
- Yoga Journal: Featured Thought-Leader Bija Bennett
- The Today Show
- Bija Chairs the Global Wellness Institute’s Yoga Therapy Initiative
- tastytrade Bootstrapping in America: Interview with Bija Bennett
- Bija Bennett Joins Rolling Stone Culture Council
- Weizmann Institute President Awarded 2022 Bennett Family Award for Collaboration in the Science of Wellness
- Juan de Pablo receives inaugural Bennett Family Award for Collaboration in the Science of Wellness
- The 2022 Global Wellness Summit Award Recipients & Contest Winners Announced
- Cross-institutional partnership propels global research in AI and quantum science
- Bennett Family Award Honors Global Collaborations in the Science of Wellness
- “The Yoga Therapy Renaissance” Sheds Light on an Increasingly Important Field
Videos
- Virabhadrasana – Warrior Pose for Energy and Strength
- Yoga for Back Strength and Mental Focus
- Utthita Trikonasana – Extended Triangle Pose
- A Vinyasa Yoga Routine for Strength
- Urdhva Prasarita Padasana – Upward Stretched Yoga Posture
- Dvipada Pitham – Yoga to Relieve Neck Tension
- Ardha Utkatasana: Half Chair Pose Video
- Ardha Uttanasana: Half Standing Forward Bend Yoga Pose
- Yoga for Lower Body Pain
- Savasana Pranayama – 3-minute Yoga Breathing for Sleep
- Vinyasa Yoga Back Stretch Sequence
- Paschimatanasana and Navasana – Seated Forward Bend and Boat Pose
- Parivrtti Trikonasana – A “Twist” to the Revolved Triangle Pose
- Jathara Parivrtti: Spinal Twist Pose
- Yoga for Energy and Focus
- Using Contra-Lateral Movements in Yoga for Concentration and Focus
- Urdhva Prasarita Padasana – Upward Extended Feet Pose
- Savasana Yoga Posture – Corpse Pose Benefits
- Quick, Energizing Yoga for Focus and Attention
- Parsvottanasana – Upright Side Stretch Posture
- Yoga for Focus: A Short (9-Minute!) Yoga Practice
- Sukhasana – Easy Sitting Pose Yoga
- YogaAway: The Workout – Strength
- YogaAway: Stress Reduction – Relaxation
- YogaAway: Finding Focus – Concentration
- YogaAway: A Good Night from YogaAway
- 12-minute Lower Back Yoga Sequence
- Using Contralateral Yoga Poses For Focus
- 9-Minute Attention Building and Focus Yoga Workout
- Relaxation Yoga: Reduce Stress & Feel at Ease
- Yoga for a Peaceful and Focused Body and Mind
- Yoga Breathing Technique for Calming Emotions
- 3 Breathing Exercises in Yoga to Help You Focus
- A Calming Yoga Sequence for Stress Relief
- Slow Yoga Poses to Induce Sleep (Apanasana, Savasana)
- 8-Minute Nighttime Yoga Routine to Help You Sleep (Uttanasana, Apanasana, Savasana)
- 5-minute Relaxing Yoga Sequence to Rest Your Body and Mind (Uttanasana, Apanasana)
- Bhujangasana: Cobra Pose
- Dhanurasana: Bow Pose
- Vajrasana
- Vajrasana
- Uttanasana and Utkatasana
- Sukhasana
- Samasthiti – Equal Standing Yoga Pose
- Janu Sirsasana
- Cakravakasana and Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Uttanasana
- Jathara Parivrtti
- Apanasana
- Easy Low-Back Stretch: Apanasana
- Tadasana
- Samasthiti
- Jathara Parivritti
- Apanasana
- tastytrade Bootstrapping in America: Interview with Bija Bennett
- Global Wellness Summit 2019 Singapore – A Wellness Moment
- Video: LIFESCAPE
- Video: LIFESCAPE: A Video Portrait of Marshall Bennett (14-min)
- Ardha Salabhasana
- Janu Sirsasana: Head-to-Knee Yoga Pose
- Samasthiti – Standing Yoga Breathing Posture
- Ardha Salabhasana and Salabhasana (Half-Locust and Locust Pose)
- Learn How to Breathe in Yoga
- How to Do Tadasana Pose and Stand Strong
- 7-minute Yoga You Can Do At Work
- 12-minute Wake-Up Yoga Routine
- Cakravakasana: Ruddy Goose Yoga Pose
- Dvipada Pitham – How To Do Bridge Pose
- 5-minute Breathing Meditation: Analoma Ujjayi and Viloma Ujjayi
- Supta Parsva Padangusthasana
- My Fourth Act with Bija Bennett on How I Keep Restructuring Myself
- Supta Padangusthasana: Reclining Hand to Big Toe Pose
- Healing Ground Movement podcast: Use Conscious Breath to Enhance Your Mind with Guest Bija Bennett
- At Desk Calm and Focus
- Vajrasana and Cakravakasana
- Vajrasana
- Salabhasana and Ardha Salabhasana
- Cakravakasana 2