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“I will meet you there”.

Yes, I will meet you there, where you are. That’s my message to any student; where you are is exactly where we meet. you don’t have to sprint, cartwheel and somersault (maybe you’ll be able to after a yoga therapy session with me:) … to move over …Meetup “there” in your natural terrain, that “field” is just fine.
Up-Dog, thighs off the ground …press through the heels, feet flexed, Lift and lift upwards towards the sky, with chest open – shining heart:) Good Morning – it’s Autumn. Playing on a carpet of Fall leaves on this “field”. Let yourself Fall off balance and roll on carpet of golden autumn leaves so that … you can get up.

Processing from Proprioception to Interoception …what a journey … Ahhhh … we need this. It’s so therapeutic.
A daily ritual … love, love, love. Richard Miller, PhD:) and always coming back to Rumi…

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
– Rumi

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Healthy Living Yoga

Yoga Therapist, Thinking Big:)

I took Bo Forbes workshop couple of years ago at a Yoga Journal conference and learned so much. She is a very erudite teacher who has had her fitness background merged with her personal yoga pursuit fused with her profession as a psychologist (not sure if she’s practicing now that she’s so known in yoga). Her teachings have stayed with me in how to approach my own therapist training. She puts it so well, why rephrase – this is from UTube available to share:

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Frozen Shoulders?

Regular yoga practices can prove to be a preventative medicine to some of the discomforts associated with stiffness gone too far.

Here it is ! Some ideas as you work with your PT to defrost your frozen body part …

“Its’ not enough to build muscle and achieve aerobic fitness. …
You may think of stretching as something performed only runners or gymnasts. (and dancers!)
But we ALL need to stretch in order to protect our mobility … “A lot of people don’t understand that stretching has to happen on a regular basis. It should be daily,”
says David Nolan, a physical therapist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Stretching keeps the muscles flexible, strong and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints.
Without it, the muscles shorten and become tight. Then, when you call on the muscles for activity, they are weak and unable to extend all the way.
That puts you at risk for joint pain, strains, and muscle damage. …
Regular stretching keeps muscles long, lean and flexible:)
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With a body full of muscles, the idea of daily stretching may seem overwhelming. But Nolan says you don’t have to stretch every muscle you have. “The areas critical for mobility are in your lower extremities: your calves, your hamstrings, your hip flexors in the pelvis and quadriceps in the front of the thigh.” Stretching your shoulders, neck and lower back is also beneficial.”
– Harvard Health Publications dtd 9/2013