Learning to Enlist the Mind as Medicine
If you still need proof that yoga can help to manage and even eliminate pain, I urge you to read this article by Jane Brody in the New York Times
A Yoga Practice to Call Your Own – Part 2
In my last post, I suggested that you might consider creating and maintaining your own personal practice. I mentioned a few factors that are key to doing this: setting an …
A Yoga Practice to Call Your Own – Part 1
What do you think is the hardest part of practicing yoga? Balancing on one leg? Having the strength to hold a downward facing dog for more than 60 seconds? Keeping …
Setting Intentions for 2017
My teacher, Gary Kraftsow, likes to ask this question: what’s stronger, your intentions or your habits? For all of us making a New Year’s resolution to break a bad habit (the same …
Light Practice for Dark Days
Have you noticed those holiday lights coming on earlier and earlier each year? There was a piece on my local news channel 12 about the Ridge Hill Shopping Center in …
Fall Focus
For many of us, the shortening days of this season signal an end to the relatively languid days of summer and a need to rev up for school, work, and …
Too hot for yoga?
Too hot to do yoga? When it’s hot and humid, it can be difficult to get motivated to do anything that requires movement. But yoga can actually help you cool …
Viniyoga and Back Pain
This article specifically mentions Viniyoga for back pain: http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/857372_2?src=soc_fb_share
Spring Cleaning
During the winter months, even a winter that has been as mild as this past one, we tend to contract inward against the dark and the cold. I’ve spent many …
Yoga for Osteoporosis
I’ve been following the work of Dr. Loren FIshman, a physiatrist at Columbia University and an Iyengar Yoga teacher and practitioner. He has singlehandedly run a study on the effect …