Nourish & Rejuvenate – The Art of Practicing & Teaching Restorative Yoga

“Restorative yoga has been helpful for my patients with diverse conditions, such as back pain, neck pain, high blood pressure, asthma, migraine and tension headaches, stress-related diseases, chronic fatigue, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer.” – Mary Pullig Schatz, MD We work very hard in our lives, and while we may sleep, we rarely take time … Continued

Keys to a Healthy Asana Practice: The Art of Building Core Stability

By now it’s become an article of faith that core stability is a key element in healthy asana practice and crucial to a happy lower back. But what is the core and how do we strengthen it? Too often classes with a core emphasis focus on the superficial musculature of the front body and end … Continued

Yoga & Myofascial Release: The Bodymind Ballwork Method

Are you plagued by chronic aches or movement restrictions in your body that persist even with a good yoga practice? In addition to finding help through chiropractic, massage or physical therapy, you can help yourself with simple yet powerful techniques that you can do right at home. Myofascial release techniques are gaining popularity as a … Continued

Finding Your Center of Calm: Essential Yoga Self-Care Tools for Anxiety

Feeling restless, wound-up, or constantly on edge? Or do you feel you worry all the time, have difficulty concentrating, are overly irritable and emotional, and easily fatigued? These are all symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety affects us all at one point or another. But when we struggle with it constantly, it can infringe on our sleep … Continued

Yoga for Balancing Moods – A Woman’s Guide to Emotional Well-being

Just because you experience monthly mood swings, rage and cry at the end of a long-term relationship, or occasionally feel overwhelmed or paralyzed by the sheer magnitude of your responsibilities, it doesn’t mean you’re clinically depressed or have an anxiety disorder. These emotional ups-and-downs may simply be your body’s way of getting you to pay … Continued

Calming the Nervous System – The Art and Benefits of Forward Bends

Have you ever noticed how forward bending postures have a unique ability to settle the mind and body and give us a feeling of safety and calm? Forward bends have many benefits. They can help create length and space in the spine to counteract compression, and they help stimulate parasympathetic functioning (the rest and digest … Continued

Cracking the Longevity Code Bootcamp: The 5 Keys to Becoming a SuperAger

Did you know that there is a wider difference in the health status in people 50+ than in any other age group? Indeed, researchers categorize people above 50 in no less than five categories, ranging from frail to the so-called SuperAgers, who live full, active lives well into their 80s and even 90s. How do … Continued

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