There are some things that you just can’t put on hold because of back pain like the night of your daughter’s school play, a big presentation at work, the day of your son’s wedding, Thanksgiving dinner preparation, and so on. Even if you can’t get to your chiropractor, massage therapist, or acupuncturist in that moment [...]
Digestive imbalance is almost at epidemic levels these days. Constipation, IBS, acid reflux, GERD, etc. plague a whopping 70 million people every day. The omnipresence of processed food, GMO’s and increased use of medication is largely blamed for for the loss of our ability to properly digest our food. This is highly concerning because [...]
Yoga Therapy is a 4,000 year old complementary healing modality that uses gentle body movement, breathing techniques and progressive relaxation practices to bring all the body systems into a synchronistic bio-rhythm that has been proven to engender healing. Science has recently taken a good hard look at the healing properties of yoga in regard [...]
Dear Monique, I went through chemotherapy cancer treatment and now I have numbness in my lower legs and feet. It makes it hard to do standing and balance poses in my yoga classes because I can’t feel the souls of my feet. Can Yoga Therapy help me? Signed, Tingle Toes Dear Tingle Toes, Mayoclinic.com describes [...]
As yoga teachers and therapists students often come to us and tell us they have digestive issues or hormonal imbalances, auto-immune disorders, or cancer. They’ve shown up because they’ve heard great things about yoga and they believe it may be able help them. If you’re nervous about how to help a student or client [...]
The carpal tunnel is a narrow space in the wrist that houses the median nerve, tons of blood vessels, all the tendons that move the fingers and bursa saks containing fluid that can swell. As Mayo Clinic points out “anything that crowds, irritates or compresses the median nerve in the carpal tunnel space can [...]
The Yogic sages offer us many practices to support our journey towards Self-Realization. If you’re like me you found asana first and it changed your life. In fact that may be why you became a yoga teacher! Yogis suggest asana may be necessary to settle and balance the body in preparation for meditation. For [...]
Reiki is a healing modality that was developed in 1922 by the Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. Translating Japanese into English is more of an art than exact science. The Japanese language has many layers of meaning. Context is very important. As an example, “Rei” is commonly translated as “ghost” and “Ki” as vapor. This [...]
Allow me to introduce you to your Psoas. It’s a deep hip flexor and external rotator. Its origin is the lumbar spine and its insertion is the lesser trocanter of the femur. The story of the psoas often ends there, but it’s really so much more interesting than that. The psoas actually has facial [...]
Cat/Cow These two postures help to keep the spine, and shoulders, mobile and strong. Start on your hands and knees, in a neutral table top position. Hands are shoulder-distance apart and knees are hip-distance apart. Shoulder heads are over wrists and hips are over knees. Slowly inhale, settle your belly toward the ground as [...]
