The Breath In Yoga The Breath is key.  To control the breath means to control the mind, to find ‘Sukha’ (ease) and lightness in practice through the breath. In our day to day if we experience stress, the breath shortens, if we are sad, the breath is shallow, if we feel anger we may hold… Continue reading The Breath

The Importance of Happiness for Mental Health Happiness plays a crucial role in our overall well-being and quality of life. Here are a few reasons why happiness is important for mental health: Positive Emotions Happiness encompasses positive emotions like joy, contentment, and satisfaction. When we experience these positive emotions, our brain releases chemicals such as… Continue reading Be Happy

Yoga is not a cult It used to be that most Americans viewed Yoga as a weird cult, practiced only by the lost souls on the fringe, who were wasting their time reaching for an abstract view of life. An aspiring student of yoga was not someone you would want living in your own neighborhood, let… Continue reading The Holistic Approach to Life by Doug Svenson

What is the main goal of yoga? It is useful to understand the benefits of yoga before embarking on your yogic journey. Tradition The traditional purpose of yoga is to bring about a profound transformation in a person through the transcendence of the ego. In Hindi the word yoga means spiritual discipline. Fast track to… Continue reading Yoga -What are the benefits?

Every year, Mother’s Day is followed by National Women’s Health Week, which promotes the importance of women’s and girls’ health. This year’s theme is “Stay active, Eat healthily” thus making it simple for many to join in. There has never been a more crucial time to put our physical and mental health first. Taking care… Continue reading How BodyHoliday can make your National Women Health Week Goals Easy

We’re sure that you’ve planned a healthy lifestyle of going to the gym and giving up bad habits but unfortunately, committing to this is difficult. Let us talk about how an early visit to BodyHoliday Saint Lucia can help you achieve these goals. The idea of dining with us is to indulge in delicious cuisine… Continue reading How BodyHoliday makes your Wellness Resolution easy

The Power of Stretching – Combatting Poor Posture When Working at Home  For many of us, Covid-19 has meant working from home and creating a new ‘office space’ within the house. This could mean your dining room table and chairs now double as a desk space and that your posture is dealing with the impact of this.   Most of… Continue reading The Power of Stretching – Combatting Poor Posture

How gratitude journaling can help boost your mood and create a positive mindset  We can dream of the places we’d rather be, look back on fond memories and long for the people that we miss and aren’t able to see right now, but what if we paused and thought of all the things we can do?  … Continue reading The Benefits of Gratitude Journaling

Incorporate the ancient holistic art of Ayurveda into your daily routine to create balance and harmony   During self-isolation, with our immediate future shrouded in uncertainty, few of us may have given much thought to the idea of achieving inner balance.   Indeed, cultivating the ability to cope with the current difficulties is as admirable as it is essential. However, by incorporating just a few elements… Continue reading Incorporate Ayurveda into your daily routine to create balance and harmony

Monday motivation: Top tips to help you wind down before bed   Sleep is a sought-after commodity at the best of times. With an industry worth billions of dollars, a plethora of new sleep-improving products constantly being conceptualised and a population soaking up reams of information on the subject, it is an innate bodily function most of us are always seeking to enhance.  Here are our top tips for a better… Continue reading Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep

Find calm amongst the chaos, through meditation with BodyHoliday’s Tendel   Meditation is a booming movement in today’s popular culture. Once considered a concept reserved exclusively for hardcore yogis, the practice has, in recent times, amassed an impressive and varied following, resonating with everyone from highflying city types to country-loving retirees.     Here, one of BodyHoliday’s master practitioners, Tendel Zangpo, talks us through how meditation can help us to unwind and forget our daily worries and troubles.  The art of meditation is almost as old as… Continue reading 10 Minute Guided Meditation with Master Practitioner Tendel

Boost your immune system and lower your stress with Dr Maha’s Breathing Exercises   Of course it’s impossible to ignore the importance of breathing when it comes to our immediate physicality, but we are not always aware of how the way we breathe can have a long-term effect on our vital organs, internal processes and immune system, as well as our… Continue reading Lower your stress with Dr Maha’s Breathing Exercises

Not your everyday sauna. The use of saunas date back to ancient times where different cultures around the world used it for detoxification purposes. As an inclusive part of your BodyHoliday, we offer you twenty-minute sessions of Far Infrared Detox therapy. If you are asking yourself what makes this treatment so beneficial, apart from being… Continue reading Far infrared detox therapy