Yoga for Osteoporosis, part 1
Several people in my chair yoga classes for seniors have been asking whether they can practice yoga if they have osteoporosis and how and whether yoga can be beneficial. The …
MLK Birthday, January 18, 2021
These are dark days, and I mean dark both figuratively and literally. We’ve all been bombarded with bad news over this past year, on an astonishing array of fronts, so …
Can’t Sleep???
My son is one of the forty million plus people in this country who have chronic sleep issues. No matter how tired he gets during the day, he finds himself …
Relieving neck and shoulder tension
If you’ve been Zooming as often as I have (Zooming – most likely one of the top ten candidates for word of the year, along with, assuming 2-word phrases are …
Search the Darkness
I hope all of you are coping as best you can with our new current reality. I wanted to share with you a poem from the 13th century Sufi mystic, …
Focused breathing practice for difficult times
As we settle into this enforced isolation and the pandemic worsens, I’ve started to realize that I’ve been somewhat cavalier about my possible exposure to the virus: taking numerous trips …
Yoga in the time of Covid-19
(with apologies to Gabriel Garcia Márquez) How many times did you wash your hands today? Have you stood on line yet just to get IN to Whole Foods or Trader …
The Inner Practice of Yoga
I just returned from a 4-day retreat in Austin, Texas, with my teacher, Gary Kraftsow. At this retreat, we explored different schools of thought that emerged from the Vedic period. …
Yoga and Aging, Part II: The hip bone’s connected to the…
As we get older, our bodies seem to forget how they’re supposed to work: tendons, ligaments, muscles, and blood vessels should be supple, but they become less elastic; teeth and bones, …
Got Arthritis? Get Moving! (Part 3)
Part III – Hips and Low Back In this last of my arthritis series, I’d like to offer some gentle yoga poses for your hips and low back that you …