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Why Is Everyone Listening to This Yoga Nidra Practice on YouTube Right Now?
“When you search YouTube for yoga nidra videos, you’re confronted with literally hundreds of search results. Most feature soothing or hushed voices. Some lull you with an array of sounds in the background. Most are intended to downregulate your vibe while some are designed specifically to induce sleep.
Almost all of these yoga nidra YouTube videos share textbook yoga nidra: They encourage you to find a comfortable lying position, similar to Savasana, listen as someone’s voice coaxes your awareness to your physical body, and let yourself be drawn into a somewhat altered state of consciousness.
Yet there’s only one of these yoga nidra YouTube videos that has been listened to more than 12 million times, at last count. Its title, quite simply, is “Yoga Nidra 20-Minute Guided Meditation,” and the video relies exclusively on the voice of a British yoga teacher set to a subtle backdrop of ambient music.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0FKzeuVVs&t=544s
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You can read about Tough Broad here.
“TOUGH BROAD is a deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age. Paul speaks with women around the country about their aging journeys and the activities that have changed their lives – including BASE jumping, wing-walking, flying, swimming, orienteering, walking, scuba diving, boogie boarding and BMX riding – and examines the different ways that activity and the outdoors can help you age better and make you happier as well as improve your spirit, mind, body, and heart. Main themes of the book include:
· the five pillars for fulfilling aging (community, health, novelty/challenge, purpose and a strong positive mindset about aging itself)
· going outside is the most complete way to bring all four pillars of fulfilling aging into your life as a man or a woman
· going outside and adventuring is a direct rebuke to beliefs – society’s and our own – that women become less competent physically and less interesting overall as we age, and when we upend that we begin to reimagine other parts of ourselves
· why adventuring outside as we age is especially important for women
· the importance of a positive mindset as we age/combating the negative messaging around aging
· getting outside can mean walking in parks, or it can mean learning to swim, or it can mean mountain biking and scuba diving
· the medicinal benefits of nature and of finding awe in our surroundings
· the biggest misconception is that it’s dangerous for women to engage at a later age in the uncertainty and physical risk of an adventure. Nothing could be further from the truth”
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We read about it here: ‘Girls Run Ultras’ Is a New Film About Women Crushing Trails.
“Girls Run Ultras is a 15-minute film that follows the journey of an all-women’s running collective, Girls Run NYC, as they push their limits individually and collectively through the challenges of the 2022 Black Canyon Ultras 60K. It’s an intimate look into a group’s unwavering determination and camaraderie as they conquer the trails together.
The film is co-directed by Ellie Windham and Christine Rivera, and it’s recently been selected as one of eight films for the 2024 Trail Running Film Festival, which starts this week and will tour to more than 50 locations worldwide.”
