#selfcare

Nov 14, 2019
7 min

November Newsletter: Be Here Now--Tools For Practicing Presence

Greetings friends, November is here! The cold weather is settling in, the winter holiday season is just around the corner and the new year--better yet, the new DECADE--is quickly approaching. With so much coming up, and the pressure make the end of this year #Epic, it's easy to get swept up into future wants, fantasies & desires yet loose track of what's happening right here, right now. The present moment is easily taken for granted, yet it's one of the most amazing gifts we

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Jul 8, 2019
6 min

July Newsletter: Energetic Intersections, Part III: Pitta Dosha & the Solar Plexus

Greetings and namaste friends, Happy Summer Solstice to you all! If you didn't know, Friday June 21st marked the official first day of summer--while the weather might have already felt like summer here in middle Tennessee, the official summer season is just beginning. The summer solstice is also the International Day of Yoga, which was first observed in 2015. According to Wikipedia, "The idea of International Day of Yoga was first proposed by the current Prime Minister of Ind

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Mar 8, 2019
9 min

March Newsletter: Spring Cleaning, the Ayurvedic Way

Greetings & Namaste! March is an exciting month! The first spring flowers are in bloom, the weather is unpredictable yet getting warmer, the Spring Equinox is quickly approaching--and so is daylight savings time on Sunday, March 10. Here in Tennessee, Mother Nature is waking up from her winter sleep, and all of her children are celebrating the return of our divine Mother's consort--the radiant, hot, sexy Sun. Considering the erratic, wet and muddy weather, the movement of the

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Jan 31, 2019
6 min

February Newsletter: Balancing Kapha & Practicing Divine Love Through Self-Care

Greetings & Namaste! Can you believe it's already February? I remember when I was a child contemplating how long the days were. With my limited concept of "time," the only milestones I could count on to understand how long a year was and begin to grasp the cycle of the seasons were: my mother's birthday--that was spring; mine and my father's birthday--that was summertime; school starting--that was fall; and both of my brothers' birthdays, Christmas and New Year--that was wint

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Dec 2, 2018
7 min

December Newsletter: Maintain Health This Holiday Season With Ayurvedic Yoga

Greeting & Namaste! The end-of-year Holiday season has begun! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends! The winter holidays can be a joyous and celebratory time for many, yet for many of us still the end-of-year celebrations can bring about stressful feelings of anxiety, overwhelm and depression. In addition, holiday overindulgence can leave us feeling slow, sluggish, unmotivated and heavy in body and mind. What can we do to stay true to our persona

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Jun 18, 2018
1 min

15 Minutes of Yoga: Practice Classical Sun Salutation with Jo-Jo!

Having a daily home yoga practice is liberating. When we establish a daily ritual of self-care that includes yoga asana, we are practicing preventative medicine through embodiment and empowerment of our true authentic self. You may have the best intentions to establish you sadhana, but you do know where to start. The question is, how the heck do you start practicing yoga at home? While nothing compares to practicing under the guidance of an experience teacher, we can quickly

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Jun 5, 2018
3 min

June Newsletter! Happy Pitta Season

Greetings and namaste! Summer is just around the corner, and I'm sure many of us are already feeling the effects of Nature's shift to pitta season! "Pitta" is the Ayurvedic Dosha comprising the elements fire and water, and it's hot, sharp, oily, light, consuming and transforming. If you consider how that translates to inside the body, we're talking about the power of digestion; the ability of our digestive fire to transform food into energy through metabolism, and our ability

Ayurvedic Self-Care: How To Practice Jala Neti ( demonstration video included)

Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist

Apr 27, 2018
3 min

Ayurvedic Self-Care: How To Practice Jala Neti ( demonstration video included)

Jala Neti - also called "nasal irrigation," or, simply, "neti," this ayurvedic body cleansing technique involves washing the nasal cavity and sinuses with warm saline water to clean out the inner nose and sinuses from any mucus buildups, air pollutants and other debris that can clog our breath passageway . In order to practice jala neti you need a "neti pot," which is a special water vessel to inset into the nostril and looks similar to a small teapot. You'll also need warm f