Gentle Somatic Yoga is Tailor-Made for People with Chronic Pain Did you know that the root cause of most chronic muscle pain is sensory-motor amnesia (SMA)? In simple terms, years after you have recovered from a trauma to the body or emotional trauma, you can still...
We Can Learn A lot about Movement from Babies! I watch my granddaughter all the time! When I first got into yoga, it was to help with my emotions, most particularly anxiety. However, over the years, I realized that the yoga practices were helping me stay fit and...
What does it mean to be present? Being present seems like such a simple concept and yet it eludes us most of the time. We are in the kitchen cooking a meal thinking about our friend who is struggling across the globe or we are outside exercising on a bike, thinking...
Hand Mudras are an Ancient Healing Tool Used in Yoga Did you know that your hands hold an innate energetic power that has been used for centuries for healing various ailments? I have recently become fascinated with these hand gestures, known as Mudras, and how they...
Which nervous system is controlling your life and your healing? Have you noticed that when you want to learn something, you have an easier time retaining the information and following through on what you have learned? Timing of knowledge, I am realizing, is so...
Restorative Yoga is a lot harder than it looks for many of us. Why? Becoming a certified restorative yoga teacher was the furthest thing from my mind when I took up yoga. The fact is I have a hard time sitting still let alone lying still in a pose for five to...
