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Packing Simple: Travel Packing Tips & Tricks for Your Next Vacation
It’s always exciting to start planning the details of a well-deserved vacation, but many times we forget some of the most important essentials: our toiletries! At YUNI, we’re all about making sure you travel feeling refreshed — no matter how many hours you’ve been on the road. To keep your skin, hair, and mind feeling [...]
A Guide to Ayurveda | Part 1
Ayurvedic Body Types and Doshas At YUNI, we love teaching and learning about the history and origins of the things that inspire us. As yogis, Ayurveda is a large part of our practice. If you’re curious about how Ayurveda relates to yoga, aromatherapy, and health, read on to learn more about this ancient system of medicine through YUNI. What [...]
A Guide to Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is a popular form of natural treatment for both physical and psychological ailments, as well as improvements for your general wellbeing. It’s an ancient system of medicine that stems from harnessing the power of plants for their curative benefits. If you’re curious about aromatherapy oil uses, read our essential oils aromatherapy guide for more [...]
Plane Exercises and Other Yoga for Travel
With summer here, many of us will probably take the opportunity to travel. Unfortunately, since many people build their yoga routine around studio classes, a disruption in our schedule can cause us to forget our daily practice. This is detrimental since practice is only firmly grounded when practiced for a long duration and without breaks. [...]
Adventures Through the Depths of India
My Yoga Retreat Experience As some of you may know, I just returned from an incredibly thought provoking journey through the sacred cities of Varanasi, Bodhgaya, and Nalanda, India. It was beyond question, the most revealing yoga retreat experience I’ve been on thus far. Known by the Sadhus and Rishis as the “Abode of the Gods”, [...]
Aloha State: Getting Grounded
Back in February I took a trip to Hawai’i on a one way ticket. Living in Los Angeles gets extremely hectic at times and I felt the need for a getaway. The purpose of not having a return flight was to give myself time to explore the islands with no rush whatsoever. I had never [...]
Don't Let Stress Effect Your Skin!
Living in Colorado, skin care is a major battle with the relative humidity sometimes dropping as low as 10%...and when stress creeps in, I have to be even more on top of my skin care game! Though I live a relatively stress-free life as a yogi, no one is immune to stress - it happens. When we were building our [...]
Meditation & Mindfulness | Tips from YUNI Beauty
Meditation has been a staple in many cultures around the world for thousands of years, and it helps our bodies and minds in many different ways. Today, researchers are starting to gain a new understanding about the benefits of mindful meditation — whether participants are seeking pain management, coping with emotional difficulties, or simply striving [...]
Being Fully in the Moment: What Does that Really Mean?
Let’s talk about time. The new age, self help world, and most schools of yoga are big fans of the present moment. They are so into “being present” that they often glorify it at the expense of the other aspects of time, the past and the future. You’ve heard the mantras: “The present moment is all you will ever have” “Let go [...]
Time for A Nature Retreat!
Nature. What a force of beauty. It’s the essence of which we all are born from and the indispensable commodity that we often forget to appreciate. Although I live in the densely populated beach city of Venice CA, I make sure to get outdoors for a nature adventure at least once a month. It [...]