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Yoga for Arthritis: New Study Shows Yoga Reduces Arthritis Pain and Improves Well-being (YogaUOnline.com) Discomfort while walking. Pain in your hip, neck, or other joint area that wakes you up at night. Morning stiffness that can take over an hour to subside. These experiences are all-too-familiar for the one in five Americans who suffer from arthritis. However, according to a recent study yoga can help arthritis sufferers, and with more than just the pain. The study’s yoga ...Continue reading

Yoga therapy has become the new buzzword of the yoga world. What is it really? Isn’t yoga therapeutic in general? What is the difference between a yoga class... and a yoga therapy session? To illustrate the difference, let’s break it down, differentiating between a yoga class and a yoga therapy session, and a yoga teacher and a yoga therapist. Yoga Class vs. Yoga Therapy Session People attend yoga classes for a variety of reasons but they usually start out seeking exercise within a community. Along the way, they may discover that yoga has more to offer that just a physical workout; they may find an interest in pranayama, meditation or chanting. Yoga classes offer students a variety of techniques so they can learn different ways to explore this ancient health care maintenance system. A yoga therapy session is more specific: it is all about you and your issue(s). A yoga therapist’s goal is to investigate your specific symptoms and offer personalized solutions for controlling and/or mitigating them. Yoga Teacher vs. Yoga Therapist A yoga teacher should be trained in both the art and science of yoga as well as effective teaching methods. A good yoga teacher knows how to assess the needs of the students in any given class and teaches techniques that will be of interest to that group as well as enhancing their general knowledge of yoga. A yoga therapist is a yoga teacher who further trains to assess the needs of and determine an intervention for an individual. Yoga therapy training involves in-depth study of a range of conditions along with the corresponding therapeutic interventions. Let’s look at an example. You have developed low back pain that often keeps you up at night. Attending a gentle yoga class helps to ease that pain for a while as you learn to coordinate your breath to movement. However, you are still not finding enough relief to be able to sleep well at night. You go to visit a yoga therapist, who asks you a variety of questions about your life, your work, your habits, and your diet, and works over a period of time to develop a personal practice that will directly address the specific, current issues that are preventing you from feeling relief. -- Gary Kraftsow, Yoga Therapy: The Profession, International Journal of Yoga Therapy, No. 24 (2014)

Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. ~ Deepak Chopra (painting by Jess Tice)

If you are in the mindset of wanting to make changes this year (and no ones saying you NEED to change anything), you might be interested in this article. It talks about embracing change as something you do FOR yourself, rather than TO yourself, and how to lessen the struggle. I especially like the quote "Its good for you is a deadly attitude and eventually leads to noncompliance. In effect, you have been acting both as the person feeling the stress and the person who is inflicting it. The attitude of self-care, however, is holistic. You become the person who cares for yourself and the person who experiences the care." Self-change, when approached with an attitude of self-compassion, can be a gift you give yourself. Happy 2019!

If you are in the mindset of wanting to make changes this year (and no one's saying you NEED to change anything), you might be interested in this article. It talks about embracing change as something you do FOR yourself, rather than TO yourself, and how to lessen the struggle. I especially like the quote "Its good for you is a deadly attitude and eventually leads to noncompliance. In effect, you have been acting both as the person feeling the stress and the person who is inflicting it. The attitude of self-care, however, is holistic. You become the person who cares for yourself and the person who experiences the care." Self-change, when approached with an attitude of self-compassion, can be a gift you give yourself. Happy 2019!

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There are many definitions of Yoga. Some of them include a) Yoga as the movement from one point to another, higher one b) Yoga as bringing together, the unifyin...g of two things c) Yoga as action with undivided, uninterrupted attention. These definition of #Yoga must have one thing in common: the idea that something changes. This change must bring us to a point where we have never been before - that which was impossible becomes possible; that which was unattainable becomes attainable; that which was invisible can be seen. One of the basic reasons many people take up Yoga is to change something about themselves: to be able to think more clearly, to feel better and to be able to act better today than they did yesterday in all areas of #life. In these endeavours Yoga can be of great help, and it requires no prerequisites that must be fulfilled before we set out on this path. Source: The Heart Of Yoga, Sri TKV Desikachar #Wellness #mondaymotivation #peace #fitness #lifestyle See more

A sustained yoga practice CAN help rewire your brain to a better place. Heal yourself from within.....

Yoga therapy is emerging as an adjunct to western medicine. This video explains how YT is breaking new ground. Dr Larry Payne is my mentor and is leading the integration of YT into clinics, hospitals, and other health settings.

Simple advice is always best.............