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Healthy Living Yoga

Yoga for Chronic or Persistent Pain

is this weekend and this month’s module with Tianna Meriage-Reiter PT & YT and BK Bose, our Director as teachers – counting our blessings! Pain busting yoga studies so that we can do more yoga safely.

I attended Yoga for Chronic Pain given by Neil Pearson, PT, MSc(RHBS), BA-BPHE, C-IAYT, ERYT500 (phew, are there enough initials of credentials for Neil?) when he was hosted by Niroga Institute last year. To go over this subject again with 2 additional highly respected teachers is such a treat and … so needed in this day and age where there’s so much controversy over the Opioid epidemic. I think we are all eager to explore the ways in which yoga can really serve to alleviate and share the techniques. Best to consult a well qualified PT or the case may be your doctor to rule out anything needing more acute or immediate attention.

Yoga Prescription is not by any means, a miracle drug but consistent and regular practice will make a difference for the better. Surely not an over night cure – in fact, maybe the pain does not go away … but suffering could. Yoga therapy as a way we learn to heal, first by knowing ourselves and then applying the Yogic Therapy techniques whether it be specific asana/poses and breath techniques, mindfulness practices … customized to bring to the forefront our body’s inner natural wisdom to fully employ the healer within.

Our Honey is suffering from …Pain! Drugged for Pain ! Immobilized in stuper, legs shaking and refusing to lie down or sit … just standing… Poor Honey I’m fixed! Gratitude for lots TLC and loads of love:)

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Healthy Living

Summer Time’s Over – Autumn is HERE:)

Fall back by an hour our clock to Fall into …this Golden Season of abundance and gratitude – harvest the fruits of your labor with that intention:

“Inside of us, there’s a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.” – Rumi

Happy Monday:) We are entering into the Metal or Gold 金 season …It’s a time of transition this week and next. So interesting that there’s overlaps and common wisdom between Rumi, who is Persian poet from 1200’s and … ancient Chinese medicine and … Ayurveda … Ultimately it’s all connected and shared knowledge :

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.

Rumi

While Fall season showcases the theme of cornucopia of abundance and generosity … like falling leaves, there’s that element of losing something, letting something fall and going … bare.
For some, rather than the sense of abundance and golden harvest, Autumn season may be when we are reminded of losses and diminished energies … shorter days, longer nights, crummy weather reports, dreary, dry, grey with chills… some may even experience sadness, even grief dwelling in the past.

How does one transcend the impending darkness of Winter? Do we simply ignore unpleasant emotions, feelings, internalize and carry on ? OR ? It’s time for exercise and eating well better than ever – it’s about supplements and support. It’s about managing our energies, surrounding ourselves with people and things and nature – beauty – that boosts our energies, avoiding toxic or negative energies that saps our already depleted energy. It’s about heart warming slow cooked soul foods that truly nourishes. It’s about recharging and regenerating more with compassionate self-care.

Next post – all about being courageous, authentic and finding … acceptance. To face what scares us squarely; feel the pain; maybe even – gasp – suffer …but resolved to grow more resilient, but not hardened – while remaining open, receptive and kind. Pretty soon – we will rediscover that spark … chakra jewels within us will sparkle and shine. With yoga, we practice to peel away layer by layer those muffling veils what dims and clouds that crystalline pure light within. The power, the beauty, the truth … JOY … all that’s precious is within like that gift we unwrap with anticipation and wonder.

It’s all within if we learn to just … be.

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Yoga

Utthita Trikonasana

Benefits of “Triangle” pose are many … to list:

Strengthens the thighs, knees, and ankles
Stretches the hips, groins, hamstrings, and calves; shoulders, chest, and spine
Stimulates the abdominal organs
Improves digestion
Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
Relieves backache – yet, consult your doctor for your own unique needs.
Therapeutic for anxiety, flat feet, infertility, neck pain, osteoporosis, and sciatica
according to Yoga Journal. Should be modified with blocks, chairs, walls according to where the student’s at.


& Better You Yoga:)
Change comes from within – Subtle Adjustment from WITHIN from the first photo.
First Trikonasana with a block – see the curve on upper rib, the neck curve – Teacher Judith observes…after placing the sand bag
BEFORE
Following careful verbal cures – THEN to the next photo taken within few minutes – note the subtle difference – see the cervical spine, the line with a little pelvic awareness, a sand bag for awareness … now block removed for a better alignment. Feeling the shift from within. Making space from within to find more freedom. This master teacher does not force with her hand adjustments – but observes and directs – then steps back to see the whole pose, i.e., assesses the energetics of the lines with mindful regard for human anatomy and kinesiology. Reminiscing the Invitational from last year – thank you Teacher Judith:) Same pose, totally different energy.

AFTER:)

Here’s Teacher Judith photo found on the … where else but the internet … from awhile ago:) So so cool that she’s still teaching decades later !