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How do you plan to take care of yourself through the holiday season? Which part of you will need more attention next year? Do you plan to work with your[…]
How do you plan to take care of yourself through the holiday season? Which part of you will need more attention next year? Do you plan to work with your[…]
Are you feeling stressed? Are you worried that stress would compromise your health? According to Professor David Almeida and his team of researchers at Penn State, it is more about[…]
Are you an up-and-coming yoga therapist? Graduating from a yoga therapist training program can be both exciting and a bit frightening; it inevitably poses a question: What’s next? Where are[…]
Do you think that marketing your services is complicated and time-consuming? It doesn’t have to be! Once you have clarity about your strengths and your vision, you can move on[…]
Last month, Marita Greenidge, a yoga teacher and marketing/communications manager at IAYT, presented a webinar titled Defining Your Purpose: Building a Vision of Success on the Sequence Wiz community site. In[…]
The amount of twisting we do in our daily lives is minimal, yet spinal rotation is essential for keeping your spine healthy and your physiology running smoothly. Twisting postures involve[…]
To have a strong body, we need a supple spine, stable skeletal structure, supportive core, toned muscles, and stable joints, all linked together in an integrative way and balanced within[…]
Many yoga teachers/therapists find delving into the world of marketing quite overwhelming. For others, the thought of promoting their services can present with some unease. However, to create a successful[…]
In the old times, those who wanted to study yoga had to seek out a teacher and beg them for yoga knowledge. The way my teacher, Gary Kraftsow, who studied[…]
Recently, I picked up the book, “The Modern Trauma Tool Kit: Nurture Your Post-traumatic Growth with Personalized Solutions” by Dr. Christy Gibson. I loved her refreshing lens on all things[…]
“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we can suffer. Along with our ability to feel our own pain go our best hopes[…]
“Interoception is a way of monitoring ourselves so that we can ease the felt pain, expand the felt joy, and make sure that we get the resources needed in any[…]
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” Bell Hooks During the pandemic, educational institutions began conducting studies on factors that are[…]
“Collective trauma is a cataclysmic event that shatters the basic fabric of society.” Gilad Hirschberger On March 23, 2020, the Covid-19 Pandemic shutdown landed in our region. My world changed[…]
Do you want to feel stronger and more stable? How do you get there? The answer might seem obvious – if you want a stronger body, strengthen your muscles. Lift[…]
How many thoughts do you think you have per day? What percentage of those are useful thoughts? Scientists estimate that an average person has about 60,000 thoughts per day, and[…]
Oftentimes our bodies try to get our attention through physical pain and discomfort. The messages that the body is trying to send us range from simple “Quit lifting heavy things[…]
Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques can help yoga therapists accomplish two fundamental goals in their work with students: unblending (letting go of attachment, vairagya in yogic terms) and unburdening (minimizing[…]
In a recent yoga therapy session, a student of mine came to a realization that she would no longer be able to do certain yoga poses because of her recent[…]
When we have a persistent pain or health problem that doesn’t seem to respond to usual measures, it helps to take a closer look and see what’s happening within our[…]