Re-opening yoga spaces comes with many complications – including higher prices and limited attendance. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonisweet/2020/05/27/7-big-changes-coming-to-yoga-studios-when-they-reopen-after-coronavirus/#4ed5b375266d
Thanks to Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital, I got to lead a FREE yoga session on Sunday, August 1st at Kent University/Stark State Campus in front of the Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital tent. It was an ideal morning – cloudless and 66º – although an approaching thunderstorm prevented the balloonists from launching. Even without the balloons, …
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It’s gardening season – which means some pretty uncommon positions and stresses for the body. Give this short, 4 or 5 pose sequence a go before getting started in the garden in order to warm and prepare for the tasks ahead; you can be more effective, efficient and sustainable when you bring yoga into the …
When your primary physician calls you up at 7:00AM to insist you to head to the Emergency Room as fast as possible, it’s pretty unsettling, to say the least! Obviously, something very wrong had been revealed in the diagnostic tests she’d arranged at my last office visit. I saw her because I’d been experiencing dyspnea …
Excerpt from “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor. “When yogis finish a meal, they lie on their left side so that they will breathe primarily from their right nostril. The increase of blood flow and heat via right-nostril breathing, yogis believe, can aid in digestion.”
April lives with chronic lower back pain. Immediately upon finishing this practice, she emphatically announced that it effectively reduced compression and removed pain. She was quite happy!
The yogis knew this for centuries. A very powerful argument for learning how to breathe better! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-health/
Note the Focus and Exercises segments in the above: this is what Chair Yoga has to offer you! Here is the newspaper article that went along with the above – https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20190903/seniors-get-your-chair-yoga-on-this-month
When the lower back seizes, it could be Quadratus lumborum. Here’s a short sequence to help you alleviate the spasm.