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5 Ways Ayurveda Can Take Your Yoga To the Next Level

by Mariko Hirakawa | January 23, 2018 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand Ayurveda | 0 Comments

Have you ever felt dissatisfied by the answers Western medicine had to offer for your physical ailments? If you are in search for a system of healing that encompasses all dimensions of your being, and teaches you how to create a harmonious relationship with...

Vata, Pitta, Kapha: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Your Ayurvedic Type

by Mariko Hirakawa | January 21, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand Ayurveda | 0 Comments

by Mariko Hirakawa, B.A.M.S., D.Ay., E-RYT It is said good and bad things come in threes. Take the Three Wise Men, the Three Blind Mice, The Three Stooges, the Three Musketeers. It seems it takes 3 to create some drama! In the story of Ayurveda, depending on the...

Visionary Vinyasa Yoga Warm Up with Mariko Hirakwa

by Mariko Hirakawa | November 25, 2021 | Deepen Your Asana Practice, Yogic Take | 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/482295129 Roll out your mat, and get ready to flow! For the latest Yoga Adventures that will propel your life forward far beyond your practice on the mat, go HERE to learn about our next retreat. This short instructional video, shot in Nosara, Costa...

Quick and Easy Ayurvedic Tea Recipe

by Mariko Hirakawa | October 25, 2019 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand Ayurveda | 0 Comments

This year, we celebrate the 4th National Ayurveda Day! What better way to celebrate than sharing a wonderful Ayurvedic tea recipe to implement some new wellness regime this season. This drink is going to help you boost your...

Yoga & Leadership: How to Develop Enlightened Leaders

by Mariko Hirakawa | October 19, 2019 | Personal Development | 0 Comments

I was recently at a live event and delivered this short talk about the need for enlightened leaders and how Yoga plays an important role in the development of human consciousness. The night before, I could not sleep...and it was not because I had to stand on stage...

How to Launch a Virtual Summit Part 2: Do’s and Don’ts

by Mariko Hirakawa | October 9, 2019 | Business, Home Featured Blogs | 0 Comments

Subscribe to my YouTube channel here This is part two of our summit debrief video series where I share my biggest lessons and recommendations on how to launch a virtual summit. If you missed the first part of the series, you can catch up here. As you...

How to Launch a Virtual Summit Part 1: Recommendations and Lessons Learned

by Mariko Hirakawa | October 2, 2019 | Business, Home Featured Blogs, Personal Development | 0 Comments

Subscribe to my YouTube channel here I'm super excited to announce that this is the first of our ongoing series. And we'll be offering everything that Visionary Yoga stands for, yoga, Ayurveda, and living your visionary life. So I'm excited to bring you...

Make Space For What Matters Most

by Mariko Hirakawa | January 4, 2019 | Personal Development, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever | 0 Comments

Today, we are going to hit the pause button as you continue to craft your One-Year Vision from the last blog post of this series, and take a moment to put the things that truly matter to you at the front and center of your life. So let's take a look at your yearly...

How to Craft Your One-Year Vision

by Mariko Hirakawa | December 24, 2018 | Personal Development, Understand the Yogic Mindset, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever | 0 Comments

Let's start off by defining what we mean by a “Vision”. In the context of creating an inspiring plan for 2019, a Vision is a written description of what you intend to manifest in your life in the coming year. It seems so simple and obvious, but so few people take...

The Visionary Art of Setting Your Intentions

by Mariko Hirakawa | December 23, 2018 | Personal Development, Understand the Yogic Mindset, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever | 0 Comments

Have you ever proclaimed your intention clearly to have something in your life and BOOM! Things start happening in the most uncanny way? So there is a lot of truth in the cliche saying, "Clarity is power", is there not? It's as if the Universe was waiting for you to...

How to Extract the Lessons From Your Past to Propel You Forward

by Mariko Hirakawa | December 19, 2018 | Personal Development, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever | 0 Comments

Have you set New Year’s Resolutions and Goals every year, only to forget about them as time progressed? For many people, setting new goals on New Year’s has become a drug to numb the pain of goals that have gone unachieved. It’s time to shift the pattern! Discover why reviewing your past is absolutely essential for your planning a game-changing year ahead so that you can end the year having achieved your most cherished goals and dreams.

How to Overcome Your Resistance to Planning

by Mariko Hirakawa | December 18, 2018 | Personal Development, Visionary Guide to Planning Your Best Year Ever | 3 Comments

Do you have a resistance to planning? Discover why having a proven system for planning your New Year ahead is so critical in your success. Plus download my FREE Visionary Planning Guide to help you design your Best Year Ever!

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Quick and Easy Ayurvedic Tea Recipe

Natarajasana – Mastering Shiva’s Dance

by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 18, 2015

Have you ever sat still in a crowded train station and marveled at the frenetic pace of the world around you? You closed your eyes, and inside, you experienced stillness, maybe even peace. You opened your eyes, and there was the world, buzzing with...

Revolve to Evolve! Standing Twists to Propel Your Spiritual Evolution

by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 11, 2015

Perhaps you’ve already noticed this: the yoga mat is a great place to unfold the metaphors for the greater processes of life. Showing up on your mat and doing your practice often leads to “ahas” in unexpected areas of your life. It is so exciting when this happens...

Virasana: A Hero’s Journey

by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 4, 2015

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ― Joseph Campbell In many ways, a Yogi is a spiritual hero. To face the challenges life provides squarely and unflinchingly requires heroic qualities. Each time we make a decision to confront a difficulty,...

Revolutionize Your Universe With Samkhya Philosophy

by Mariko Hirakawa | Jan 28, 2015

Have I got your attention with this title? Good! Because we are about to delve into the amazing world of the Yogi's vision of Creation.Let me say at the very get-go that Samkhya is the very reason that Yoga"works".Yoga works because it stands on the philosophical...