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Healthy Living Yoga

Trying to translate some TED talks – fascinating but draining at the same time – is this a brain exercise for brain fitness?  This work is going to exhaust my brain power besides all this sitting and driving so … need some yoga therapy for regeneration.  Some has asked what is Yoga Therapy – well, all yoga is that even though Yoga Alliance no longer allows the use of that very word because it sounds too medical – so there’s IAYT and these are some titles that may help you see what it’s about:

Yoga for Scoliosis – Have completed Part 1 but … there’s Part 2 … it’s a lot. Elise Browning Miller is wealth of knowledge and a masterful teacher.

Yoga for Back Health – for regular you and me – you can be very fit and still have this issue caused by any number of reasons.

Yoga for Heart Health – HRV

Yoga for Immunity Boost

Yoga for Digestion

Yoga for Athletes – and this can further go into such things as Yoga for Cyclists; Yoga for Rowers; Yoga for golfers; Yoga for – name of sport 🙂

Yoga for Recovery – 12 Steps-like

Yoga for Depression & Anxiety

Yoga for Emotional Balance – Bo Forbes, PhD/YT

Yoga for Grief Relief

Yoga for Veterans – My therapist cohort specializes in this – Perry !

Yoga for Cancer Care & Caretakers

Yoga for Osteoporosis (Prevention/Management) – my mother could not drink milk and eat dairy or just pop calcium with vitamin D – so other methods besides calcium rich diet …any weight bearing exercise helps BUT yoga is great for its mindfulness component.

and my favorite might be

  • Yoga for Women’s Health – through all cycles:)
  • Yoga for Stress Management – Melatonin for Insomnia? Why? There’s no need.
  • Yoga for Weight Control – To reduce, to regain or to manage – for that balanced approach

So if one wonders why it’s taking so long for me to get certified in this particular field, it might be that there’s so much, this is why. There’s so so so much to learn… The journey has taken 2 years so far … & to that reinforcement idea – one should always consult MD’s or PT’s, CD’s after yoga’s body awareness brings one to that place.

Above photos:  Text book by Elise Miller – you can get on Amazon like everything else – very helpful; photo of one of Niroga teachers, Saraswathi Devi showing an assist – which could in turn cause back problems for the yoga teacher/therapists … so the right way as to care for others means we know self-care first-hand. Saraswathi is another one of those teachers who epitomizes graceful and purposeful aging – with the most beautiful resonant voice. A much needed sense of humor to boot.

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Healthy Living

Cheesecake Vegan Chocolate Bars & Yoga book amidst the turmoil

On this Mother’s Day …

I profess the religion of love,

Love is my religion and my faith.

My mother is love.

My father is love.

My prophet is love.

My God is love.

I am a child of love

I have come only to speak of love.

– Rumi

One of our Niroga Yoga Therapist faculty’s book – Yoga is for healthy aging at any age:)

In honor of my mother, used my mother’s cheese cake recipe … it’s an old fashion recipe as it takes over 2 hours to bake these … low heat, sloooow baking for 2 hours. Joining the sloooow food movement whenever baking these fluffy not dense morsels oozing with rich goodness … best served with fresh berries:)

Relaxing after a big walk …

” All for Love” in your face !

Finding that Zen amidst the crazy week driving to Sacramento River and back to the Bay Area; & then to Marin and back to the Peninsula to teach that yoga class for self care to live with more ease, care and love 💗 that, our mothers have taught us. What did she teach me in do-ing rather than lecturing, that I am most grateful for ?

“Love is my religion and my faith.”

& that’s … enough.

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Beautiful Places Yoga

Yoga Studio @ SFO

Unfortunately no classes no teachers but still, so 👍 nice for self-practice:) Berkeley used to be the home for Yoga Journal and San Francisco, host to Yoga Journal Conference so it makes sense that this airport would think up of this kind of space.

Yoga Journal Conference is no longer hosted in San Francisco and YJ apparently have moved out from Berkeley to Colorado? but I think the airport reflects the community’s long standing love for yoga.