Yoga & Other Musings
108 & Yoga
There is no exact document that explains exactly why 108 is a significant number in so many cultures and traditions but look around and you will see it everywhere. Galileo Galilei said the universe is written in “mathematical numbers,” and the mysteries of the...
Clean Your Skull with this breath
The last breath we are going to discuss this month is the Skull Cleansing Breath or Kapalabhati. This is a breath that often times is used to raise energy or change energy patterns in the body. It can also help to create clarity and bring a sense of calm into the...
Your Breath is YOUR KEY to Reducing Anxiety & Stress
Did you know that your heart rate speeds up when you inhale and slows down when you exhale? There are so many automatic (thank goodness!) systems in our body. We don't usually think about our breathing, our heart beating or our food digesting, it is something that...
Take A Full Breath
If you call my cell phone and I don't answer, you'll get a message saying, "You've called just in time for the deep breath of the day. Take a deep breath in, exhale." Did you just do it? How do you feel? Most people who haven't head it before say, "thanks, that was...
I Can’t Breathe
I can't breathe. We’ve all been there, we don’t pay attention to our breath until we can’t breathe. Then we notice every sniffle, stuffy, ache, pain and restriction. When we are stressed our breath becomes shallow and we might find we all of a sudden take a deep...
The Difference Between a Yoga Therapy Session and a Yoga Class
Yoga practice on it’s own can help with a myriad of physical, mental and emotional issues. If your practice includes movement or use of asanas (postures) you will receive the benefits of moving interstitial and synovial fluid through the muscles and joints;...
Energizing YOGA Video to connect your body and brain
Some of yoga’s benefits have nothing to do with our strength, flexibility or balance. Often practicing yoga can help us recognize unhealthy habits and thoughts. Practicing yoga also teachers us great sensitivity to how we are affected by people, places, food,...
Change Your Brain
My friend and colleague, Shelbi Miles, introduced me to the book, My Stroke of Insight many years ago. At the time, I was immersed in my Yoga Therapy training and that story along with Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford, set my brain on...
Strategies for when you are struggling
All yogis wobble, stumble and fall, some days more than others. Thankfully, yoga has a good track record of helping us get through even some of the most trying times. I’ll admit there are days when I wonder... is my yoga working - I still get upset, I become afraid,...
Celebrate YOU! with this new meditation
I am almost too embarrassed to write these words given what I know and what I teach, but my divorce helped me to better experience and understand my feelings. I have known/done this for years, but the intensity of the feelings I had (and sometimes still have) during...