meditation
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BlackFULLness is Making Space for Black People to Slow Down
The mindfulness app was created to support stress reduction and healing justice in the Black community.
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Saweetie Points To Meditation As The Motivation Behind Her Baldie
Did Saweetie’s new buzz cut come as a result of reaching Nirvana? Well–something like that.
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Om For Mom: Meditation And Mindfulness Hacks For Moms
Being a new mom is a beautiful experience that also happens to be very difficult. We’ve asked working mom and wellness podcaster Brooke DeVard to provide a handful of meditation and mindfulness hacks for all the new (and not-so-new) moms out there. She uses Fitbit Sense to monitor her sleep and stress, while making sure…
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Get Lifted: What Are the Real Benefits of a Meditation Practice?
There has been a lot of talk about meditation in recent years. Everyone claims to be doing it, and countless apps have been created to help people with their practice, and introduce newcomers to its benefits. But what is meditation, exactly? According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of meditation is: “to engage in mental exercise…
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The Gift Guide To Help Mom Shape A Healthy, Full Life
I can credit my sense of doing the impossible from my mom, a woman who has faced a fair amount of adversity and succeeded in raising three young, intelligent, quirky, and hilarious Black women in Utah on her own, many times sacrificing her self-care needs to meet ours. Self-care is a concept that’s grown in…
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Love the One You're With: 8 Black-Owned Services Nurturing Self-Love
Self-love and care aren’t just about slapping on a face mask and getting in the bath anymore (but don’t get it twisted, they absolutely fall under that umbrella). Given how incredibly rocky 2020 was and the not-so-steady start this year has been, it’s hard to even fathom actively carving out time for just ourselves to…
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Yoga Greenbook: How 1 Woman Is Working to Make the Transformational Power of Yoga Accessible to the Black Community
Yoga is still sometimes not seen as something for the black community. With Instagram, representation has gotten a lot better (I follow a series of amazing black yogis myself), but still, in ads, clothing-store posters, photo shoots and what have you, the yoga community, like everything else in the United States, is mostly represented by…
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I Tried It: If You’re Looking for a Way to Doze Off, Meditation May Be the Key
I’m a wannabe yogi. I’m working on myself as a human being, and yoga calls to me more than anything else ever has. I love yoga, I practice yoga at minimum three times a week, I teach yoga a few times a week and I read all the yoga books. In my few years of…