Restorative Yoga

To my Tallahassee yoga friends: You have 5 opportunities each week to practice chair yoga with me: 3 classes at Premier Health and Fitness Center and 2 classes at Restorative Yoga studio (in person and with Zoom).

Make it happen. Build strength. Improve balance. Gain flexibility. Calm your mind.

Any of my Tallahassee yoga friends want to look onto this retreat. Judith Hanson Lasater is amazing. Message me if you want to jaunt across the country.

Opening Up and Letting Go -The Heart of Yoga
A Retreat Style Training in San Diego, California
Feb 19th-23rd 2024

This is focused training for Yoga Instructors, Therapists and Experienced, Serious Students of Yoga.

The last few years have taught us many things, but probably the most powerful lesson it gave us is the absolute truth of impermanence. Now is the time for deepening our practice and reconnecting with our inner silence and ease. Join us in sunny San Diego, CA!

Your presence would make this perfect ❤️

My chuckle for the day!

My Perspective on S*x and S*xual Abuse in India (Rerun) Because of the recent efforts by Canadian yoga teachers to prevent Bikram Choudury from teaching in Canada (see Online Protesters Express Outrage), I decided to rerun this important article from 2018, which was written by Ram Rao. It provides the perspective on the important issue of sexual abuse by...

What an inspiration for us all!

100-year-old man credits yoga for his youthful spirit Don Burns just celebrated his 100th birthday — and he's in better health now than he was 15 years ago

You will lose every yoga pose you master…except one.

So, work on your Savasana.

I just finished teaching a New Year's Eve restorative yoga class at Premier Health and Fitness Center. I ended the class with following words from the poet Donna Ashworth:

"Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace".

Wishing my friends and loved ones PEACE in 2023!!

Yep!

Strengthening legs in yoga by making the "sitting in a chair" shape. So simple. So effective.

A chuckle for the day.

Dr. Fishman's work is very insightful.

Hɪɢʜʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴏɴ Yᴏɢᴀ ꜰᴏʀ Osᴛᴇᴏᴘᴏʀᴏsɪs

It was an honor for my research, on the use of yoga for the treatment of osteoporosis, to be featured in the magazine 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕.

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, every 3 seconds, someone breaks a bone due to osteoporosis. Around the world, one in 3 women and
one in 5 men over the age of 50 will suffer a broken bone due to the disease.

Through my decades of research, Yoga practices have shown promise
for bone health, as it stimulates the cells that produce bones. The twists, bends and balancing of yoga can be a safe and cost-effective way to reverse bone loss and prevent fractures in aging adults

"I often compare the side effects of the medicine [used for osteoporosis] with the 'side effects' of yoga:
better balance and posture, better range of motion, strength and coordination, all of which mitigate the risk of falling. Also, the meds can
only be given for a certain number of years, while yoga has no such limits.

Read the full article: http://www.epageflip.net/i/1469361-july-2022-fit-x-exercise-fitness/1?

Happy International Yoga Day, y'all!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-my-brain-works/202205/yoga-and-the-brain

Yoga and the Brain Research shows that yoga may improve brain functioning and mental health.

Wise words, funny picture.

It's a balance act for me with pleasing others, striving for my greater purpose and pleasing myself.

Get your breath moving by expanding and releasing the lower ribs. Explore the pathways of the breath as it moves in the body. Have fun with this life-giving action!

Yoga changes you from the inside. Here's one story.

‘I’m an exhausted mum of 3 and I did yoga for 100 days straight. Here’s what happened.’ Spoiler alert - I can’t see myself stopping anytime soon.

Upward Facing Dog at Maclay Gardens.

Make time to get your yoga on!

Beginning this week I am offering a new vinyasa flow class Tuesdays at 8:30 AM. Come get your flow on! Www. Restorativeyoga.us

Thich Nhat Hanh died today at the age of 95. Zen Master, Vietnamese Monk and political reformer.
I give thanks and great gratitude for his work. His teachings created a light for me when I needed it. I still revisit his wise words today. I give thanks for his life and his love that shone bright.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/yoga-could-slow-the-harmful-effects-of-stress-and-inflammation-2017101912588

Yoga could slow the harmful effects of stress and inflammation - Harvard Health ...

I make time in my day to open my heart with standing back bends. This heart opening move counters all the repetitive bending forward I do in daily living.

Aquatic fitness and Aquatic Yoga is a proven way to improve back health.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2787713

I agree. I would add legs-up-a-wall and reclined cobbler. So relaxing!

Chair yoga is often unfairly stigmatized and thought of as yoga for mobility-impaired people only. That's simply not true. Using a chair is also a way to achieve correct alignment, to sustain the posture longer and to stretch out a little more.

Embody your tree...while in line at a store, while waiting for coffee or tea to be ready, or while brushing your teeth.

The power of yoga is slowly gaining academic acceptance.

Yoga for better mental health - Harvard Health With its emphasis on breathing practices and medita­tion—both of which help calm and center the mind— it’s hardly surprising that yoga also brings mental benefits, such as reduced anxiety and depression. What may be more surprising is that it actually makes your brain work better.

Interesting journey.

My Buddha Body: How I Learned to Practice Yoga in a Plus-Size Body Michael Hayes had to find his own way in yoga and in the world. Now he helps others do the same.

Legs in a chair is equally effective if you don't have bare walls at home. Namaste.