Gait, Posture, and Longevity: Movement Mastery for Optimal Health
Tuesday, January 23 and
Thursday, January 25, 2024 –
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Tuesday, January 23 and
Thursday, January 25, 2024 –
8 pm Eastern / 5 pm Pacific
Join yoga teacher and therapist Ellen Saltonstall and learn how to develop a yoga practice specifically for building stronger bones, improving your balance, and preventing fractures. Learn how to adapt your yoga practice to help build strength gradually and lay the foundation for slowing or preventing the loss of bone mass. Ellen is a pioneer … Continued
The pelvic floor muscles are increasingly becoming recognized as an important focus for our regular exercise and fitness activities. Proper work of strengthening, stabilizing, stretching, and softening the pelvic floor helps to create the correct foundation for each movement in the body. Yet what is most prescribed as a catch-all cure is “just do your … 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
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
One of the inevitable changes of aging is a gradual loss of the ability to balance. While this may at first seem insignificant, it is a key factor in the increased risk of fractures people face as they get older. Most fractures of the hip, wrists, or ankle are preceded by a fall, and the … Continued
Every pregnancy is different, even for the same the woman. The journey can be both exciting and daunting, especially when trying to safely navigate an ever-changing body through the trimesters. The key to confidence in pregnancy is learning how to utilize the gifts of yoga to better support a woman’s body, mind and heart. So … Continued
Many yoga classes speak about the benefits of hip “opening”, and yet surprisingly, the most common injuries in yoga are related to the hips – back pain, QL issues, piriformis syndrome, labrum tears, SI Joint and knee issues. This begs the question – what are we actually doing in hip openers? It is a little … Continued
Addiction takes many forms—be it food, alcohol, sex, or increasingly, even the internet. In this course, Ana Forrest, founder of Forrest Yoga, draws on her own early struggles with addiction and eating disorders and shares the yoga techniques and insights that helped her find healing. Ana shows us how to work with emotional, physical, mental and … Continued
Lana Reed (aka Shakta Khalsa) is one of the world’s leading experts on children and yoga, having worked with both since the mid-1970s. She is a trained yoga professional at the highest level (ERYT-500), In this 4-part audio series Lana discusses the following topics: Lesson One: Giving Children the Gift of Yoga Lesson Two: Yoga for … Continued
Keeping your breasts healthy means keeping your lymphatic system healthy. In this audio yoga download by yoga therapist Lana Reed (aka Shakta Khalsa), you will learn 12 simple things you can do daily to make sure your lymphatic system is able to do its job of removing toxins. Some of these health tips come from the … Continued
The reason why we feel better after a yoga class is because we have changed our prana, or our energy body. We have moved energy (that may have been stuck in our shoulders or hips from a day of work) into different parts of our bodies, and in this way, cleared out any minor blockages … Continued