Discover New, Innovative Approaches to Old Standbys! Find new ways to fall in love with yoga and deepen your practice. Whether you are a yoga teacher or yoga practitioner, you will enjoy this 7-session practice series with Melina Meza’s signature innovative approaches to practicing common yoga poses. Learn how to go beyond standard approaches to … Continued
Sometimes wish that you could stop the merry-go-round of our frenzied lifestyle and just take some time out to chill out? Join us for a course with renowned yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater on Exploring the Stages of Being: The Yoga of Inner Peace. Learning how to take a “time out” to soothe and relax … Continued
Can we maintain the effortless sense of ease and focus that is the hallmark of a good yoga practice, even when we introduce more demanding, strength-building work into our yoga practice? It is well known that strength-building is one of the most effective ways to slow age-related degeneration of the body. Our muscle mass decreases … Continued
What will the Third Act of your life look like? And how much power do you have to influence how well you age and how healthy you will be in the last one third of your life? Trail-blazing actress Jane Fonda has set an example for how the last part of our lives indeed can … Continued
What’s one of the best predictors of how well you are aging, which you’ve likely never heard about? Curiously, it’s grip strength. What is grip strength anyway? It is a measure of your hand and arm strength. While the strength of our grip may seem irrelevant, in study after study, grip strength has proven to … Continued
We all know that muscles are the engines that drive all movement in the body. But did you know that muscles serve many other critical body functions? And that these all get affected and decline as we begin to lose muscle mass with age. Muscles are the most metabolically active tissue in the body. Muscle … Continued
Struggling with finding correct alignment in your yoga practice? Most people do. The sad reality is that most yoga students struggle with finding ease and comfort in yoga poses. Many poses are difficult, and our tendency is to muscle our way into poses in an effort to “do yoga” the way we think we should. … Continued
Do You Struggle with These Common Pelvic Floor Problems? Feeling a constant need to go to the bathroom, even though you’ve just been there – and don’t really need to go? You may be dealing with an overactive bladder – a form of incontinence that is surprisingly common. Pelvic floor problems like incontinence and pelvic … Continued
Can Alzheimer’s disease be prevented? Indeed, promising new research shows that dementia is not an inevitable condition of old age over which we have no control. There are steps we can take to reduce our risk of Alzheimer’s and improve cognitive functioning – and the earlier we start, the better. Join Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, … Continued
Inversions like Sirsanana (Headstand) and Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand) are also sometimes referred to as the king and queen of asana. They balance the entire nervous system and are considered to be among the most important poses for our daily yoga practice because of their profound effects on physical and emotional health. Benefits of inversions include greater … Continued
Every second of the day, your body is functioning seemingly effortlessly, regulating the literally millions of physiological functions that keep your body running. The part of the nervous system in charge of orchestrating all these functions behind the scenes, so to speak, is the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system regulates all the functions … Continued
Motherhood is a rite of passage and yoga is an ideal method for carrying women through that rite of passage into the fourth trimester of postpartum. Yoga can help women embrace motherhood and their new identity, as well recover after giving birth. A woman’s body undergoes miraculous and enormous changes, a complete transformation, during pregnancy … Continued