The first thing to know about Costa Rica is that everything moves... really... slowly. No one is in a hurry. Nothing is urgent. Schedules are more like suggestions. Agendas are open to interpretation. It didn’t occur to me until I got home that I hadn’t so much as laid eyes on a television in a week. The distractions we constantly consume ourselves with were gone. And what happens when you take away the mind-numbing inert...

There is a reason you keep hearing about yoga.  There is also a reason you keep hearing about yoga during conversations about mental health.  There is a direct correlation between the practice of yoga and improvements in overall mood as well as decreases in symptoms of both anxiety and depression.  As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, I don’t prescribe medication. But I do prescribe yoga to each and every...