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Reboot.
Sometimes the best gifts come in oddly-wrapped parcels (which occasionally are booby-trapped with high-voltage deterrants). Today confirms again for me that I need only trust my true self, my intuition, my gut, and listen to the quieted voice.
Today I am grateful for the painful reboot. Continue reading
Posted in Asthma, Healing, Health, Personal Development, Recovery, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Yoga, Yoga therapy
Tagged acceptance, alcohol, Asthma, depression, Healing, health, peak flow meter, Personal Development, personal growth, Recovery, relationship, self-love, self-respect, spiritual, yoga, yoga for anxiety, yoga for asthma, yoga for depression, Yoga therapy
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Melt into Yoga at WOTB 2013
Have you ever experienced stress or anxiety? Do you have muscular stiffness or pain? Do you sometimes think life should be easier? Yoga and Meditation have been used in the East for millennia as a path toward spiritual awakening, … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Health, Mindfulness, Uncategorized, Yoga
Tagged Anxiety, bristol, Free Yoga, meditation, Pain, Stress, The Arnolfini, WOTB, yoga, Yoga for Health, Yoga Offer
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Advice to a Frustrated Student / The Journey and the Destination
I was teaching a private class recently to someone who feels trapped in her own body, frustrated with not knowing how to free herself. This is a feeling I remember only too well: the frustration of wanting the change to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Changing the World, Healing, Health, learning, Personal Development, Uncategorized, Yoga
Tagged acceptance, Change, Destination, Discipline, Frustration, Improvement, inflexible, Journey, Pain, Practice, Private Yoga, Progress, Stiffness, Trapped, yoga, Yoga Practice
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The headstand l…
The headstand lifts your spirits wonderfully. If something is drawing you down, turn upside down, and voila-the downward flow is upended into your head. -H. David Coulter Headstand – King of Asana There are many reasons to do headstands, but … Continue reading
What is Yoga and Why Should I Care? (Part 1)
Well, this is a huge topic, why am I attempting to even broach the subject? There are near-endless books, journals, articles and indeed philosophies on exactly what is yoga, so why in the world would I attempt to add my … Continue reading
So, uh…what’s the big deal with Osteoporosis?
Want to Build Better Bones? Bone is living tissue and as such it responds to how we treat it. Recent research has indicated that a regular, safe yoga practice can not only halt the onset of osteoporosis (fragile bones) but … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Gracefully, Bones, Healing, Health, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Spinal Health, Uncategorized, Yoga
Tagged Break Bones, bristol, Build Better Bones, Ellen Saltonstall, fracture, la cuizine, Loren Fishman, melt into yoga, nutrition, osteoporosis, osteoporosis research, osteoporosis treatments, Spinal Fracture, yoga, yoga for osteoporosis
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What’s the point of Restorative Yoga?
It took me years of struggling, comparing myself to others and getting relatively nowhere in my yoga practice before I considered restorative yoga. Actually, I think it was more curiosity than a desire to try “Restorative”. I just hadn’t tried … Continue reading
Posted in Health, learning, Mindfulness, Uncategorized, Yoga
Tagged Bristol City Yoga, Hatha Yoga, How to Relax, melt into yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Bristol, Yoga for Healing
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Living Bones
Taking a look around the room I’m sitting in I see dust. Ash from the fire, cat hair, soil from the garden and lots and lots of dead skin. Yup. Lovely thought, I know, but I’m looking around and seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Gracefully, Bones, Health, learning, music, Osteoporosis, Spinal Health, Yoga
Tagged Build Better Bones, health, learning late in life, osteoporosis
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Osteoporosis and Men
I’m going on the radio tomorrow (Friday) on Bristol Community FM (BCfm on 93.2fm) at lunchtime as part of their coverage of International Women’s Day. Why me? Because I’m working on a Yoga for Osteoporosis project, and osteoporosis, as everyone … Continue reading
I Give Up… And It’s About Time
…grant me the Serenity to Accept the things I cannot change; Courage to Change the things I can; and Wisdom to Know the difference… –Reinhold Niebuhr The above quote, taken from the well-known Serenity Prayer, holds wonderful sentiment and guidance, … Continue reading
