by Andrea Trank | May 15, 2022
Did you know that May has been Mental Health Awareness Month since the late 1940s? This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Month is #ToolstoThrive. When I was originally diagnosed with anxiety 30 plus years ago, I was not thinking about thriving, I was thinking...
by Andrea Trank | Mar 20, 2022
Peeling the Layers of an Onion! I started my healing journey thirty-plus years ago when I walked into Cynthia’s yoga class. I had been on medical leave from my teaching job diagnosed with gastroparesis, a very scary-sounding diagnosis – aka stomach paralysis. I was...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 9, 2022
My Yoga Does Not Look Like This! I remember when I was first trained as a yoga teacher in 2014 how surprised I was to learn that Yoga was originally developed for teenage boys training to be monks. Over time I really came to understand how important that fact is for...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 7, 2021
What’s the Difference and Why it Matters! Thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes– I think we all confuse these terms a bit. Having studied and practiced yoga for many years, and learned about HeartMath tools and the Polyvagal theory most recently, I...
by Andrea Trank | Aug 29, 2021
Some Habits Serve Us and Some Don’t! Can you name one thing that you do repeatedly without thinking? I can name quite a few that serve me daily: brushing my teeth in the morning and night, taking my vitamins three times each day, drinking only water daily,...
by Andrea Trank | Aug 8, 2021
Moving from Reaction to Prevention! This week, for the first time since the Pandemic began almost 18 months ago, I started getting requests for more information about the work I do to help prevent Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain diseases. I had put my memory...
