Apr 15, 2021How to Live HappyGiven our lifestyles of material abundance, energetic variability, and stress/pressures on our living space and time, how do we design our lives to be cleanly centered on what is good, essential, necessary and beautiful? …Positive Thinking3 min read
Jan 8, 2021Ayurveda: Playing with Doshas to Change your MoodWe are first drawn to Ayurveda when looking for new/traditional insights into our holistic health, diet, yoga lifestyle, and depth of self-knowledge. …Ayurveda2 min read
Dec 5, 2020Healthy Head Start to your 2021Recap of two years of writing on Yoga, Ayurveda, and more yoga — As 2020 wraps and we reflect on what we have experienced together, and in solitude, we can gather our lessons from the past and inspire a renewed vision for the holiday celebrations and new year to come. I first began writing for Medium in 2018, having just moved from DC…Yoga4 min read
Nov 25, 2020Yogic Guide to Eating for your Inner FireHow to consciously keep your metabolism bright for holidays, winter weather, and the second wave of Covid — I believe in yoga as a state of being — more than an activity, a destination, or even a style of living. …Ayurveda4 min read
Published in About Me Stories·Nov 18, 2020About Me — Megna Paulaliving yoga and loving life. — When I am not practicing yoga, teaching yoga, reading, thinking, and writing about yoga, then you’ll find me running, playing tennis or singing with my guitar, gardening, and making beautiful plant based meals. But really, it all comes down to yoga. My first memory is of my father showing me…About Me3 min read
Published in Curious·Nov 10, 2020How to Design Your Best Home Yoga PracticeCreating clear intention and sacred space each and every time — Yoga has evolved through every era of human culture, from its ancient origins as secret, spoken teachings, then codified texts taught to royals and seekers, then an increasingly physical system that spread throughout India into group-fitness-loving global culture today. …Yoga5 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Oct 21, 2020How to Deepen your Experience of the Present MomentWorking with the yogic practice of Pratyahara, and your vision, to See clearly — Of all the infinite energies of our environment, our experience of life is determined by what we choose to perceive. We notice our role in our own experience of life when we draw our senses back from their favorite reaches. And when we see the nature of our particular relationship…Yoga5 min read
Oct 16, 2020Asana and Pranayama: how Yogis flyOur favorite habits as grown-up humans are twofold: one, ignoring the invisible and two, forgetting to marvel at what we see often. …Yoga3 min read
Oct 15, 2020Yoga history: Ascetics to Athletics to AestheticsWhat brought us here and how Aparigraha can empower what is still to come — All of human history is a sine curve of action and reaction. To see the points of interest with clarity and context, we need to look at the lulls that created and followed the high points. …Yoga5 min read
Oct 14, 2020How the Ancient Yogic Practice of Pratyahara can help you create a better relationship with your technologyAncient yoga philosophy is an entrance into another world, a land before time was standardized. It was possible to live as a nomad — not a digital nomad but a hunting and gathering nomad, spending long stretches of time in contemplative solitude without books or music, wandering in and out…Yoga Practice5 min read
