The repeat version of this 6-week series will focus on the multiple causes of neck & shoulder pain: posture, grounding, head-pitched forward stance, breathing, and specific muscles, especially muscles of the back.
Always a richly textured experience, this series is worth repeating several times. Poses are powerful enough for advanced students yet all instruction is focused on beginners. The 4-5 p.m. time slot is perfect for ending the day.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Healthy Bones Yoga begins again June 14, 2012
Bones are wildly rich real estate in our bodies -- the source of red blood cells so famous for bringing oxygen into the rest of the body and much, much more.
In addition to learning specific yoga poses known to rebuild bone, we'll learn more about the function and structure of bones each week, enabling us to visualize with greater clarity our all-important innard scaffolding! Join me.
In addition to learning specific yoga poses known to rebuild bone, we'll learn more about the function and structure of bones each week, enabling us to visualize with greater clarity our all-important innard scaffolding! Join me.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Healthy Bones Yoga
Enjoy your little Buddha belly, if you have one. It's one of the few places we can store estrogen as we age, and estrogen is important for bone growth.
A little Buddha belly is also not likely to get in the way of the very easy yoga postures that have been proven to create new bone growth.
The most time for bone growth in our lives is our teen years. Anyone beyond them would benefit from this Healthy Bones Yoga course where we'll learn the handful of essential things for keeping our skeleton strong and vibrant.
Our precious red blood cells are made deep within the bone. That same location is the source of so much of our health and strength. Join me in learning how to sustain powerful bones and a strong skeleton for your whole life.
The 6-week series begins January 19 -- every Thursday, 4-5 p.m. Mound Street Yoga Center in Madison.
A little Buddha belly is also not likely to get in the way of the very easy yoga postures that have been proven to create new bone growth.
The most time for bone growth in our lives is our teen years. Anyone beyond them would benefit from this Healthy Bones Yoga course where we'll learn the handful of essential things for keeping our skeleton strong and vibrant.
Our precious red blood cells are made deep within the bone. That same location is the source of so much of our health and strength. Join me in learning how to sustain powerful bones and a strong skeleton for your whole life.
The 6-week series begins January 19 -- every Thursday, 4-5 p.m. Mound Street Yoga Center in Madison.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Finding pleasure in our practice
Yesterday I went to the Credit Union, and the teller, who appeared to be about 25 years old, asked me an unexpected question. I had expected to hear "How are you?" Instead he said, "Are you having a good day?"
I was, and I told him so. He replied, rather unassumingly, "So am I." And I thought how unusual for him to offer that to me without my asking first how his day was going. I thought to myself, "What a lovely exchange."
He went on to say "When you're having a good day, I'm having a good day." And I felt as if I was watching a replay of a great movie line. I noticed myself getting slightly cynical and wondered if he was reciting a script from his job training.
I left wondering if he was being genuine or only playing out his training. I noticed my mind getting more narrow.
Today I told the story to someone and she replied, "Yes! I used to be a grocery store clerk, and if the customers were having a good day, I had a good day. The teller at the credit union was being sincere."
How readily my friend took the high road. How readily I got skeptical.
Where do I take the high road with my body and my practice? Where do I run towards cynicism in order to get smaller and supposedly safe? And you?
I was, and I told him so. He replied, rather unassumingly, "So am I." And I thought how unusual for him to offer that to me without my asking first how his day was going. I thought to myself, "What a lovely exchange."
He went on to say "When you're having a good day, I'm having a good day." And I felt as if I was watching a replay of a great movie line. I noticed myself getting slightly cynical and wondered if he was reciting a script from his job training.
I left wondering if he was being genuine or only playing out his training. I noticed my mind getting more narrow.
Today I told the story to someone and she replied, "Yes! I used to be a grocery store clerk, and if the customers were having a good day, I had a good day. The teller at the credit union was being sincere."
How readily my friend took the high road. How readily I got skeptical.
Where do I take the high road with my body and my practice? Where do I run towards cynicism in order to get smaller and supposedly safe? And you?
Monday, September 19, 2011
Healthy Bones Yoga
Bone health is more easily maintained than recreated after it fails. Yet research shows that bones DO improve after certain kinds of yoga practice, even bones weakened by osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Join me for a 6-week series on Wednesday mornings, 7 to 8 a.m. at Mound Street Yoga Center, 1342 Mound Street in Madison. Dates: Oct. 12, 19, 26 and Nov. 2, 9, 16.
The course fee includes extensive handouts with visuals of each pose, including chair and standing/floor versions of each. Chair and standing/floor versions will be taught in class.
Suggestions for structuring a home practice also will be offered.
Register at www.moundstreetyoga.com and click on CLASSES.
Looking forward to having you join me.
Join me for a 6-week series on Wednesday mornings, 7 to 8 a.m. at Mound Street Yoga Center, 1342 Mound Street in Madison. Dates: Oct. 12, 19, 26 and Nov. 2, 9, 16.
The course fee includes extensive handouts with visuals of each pose, including chair and standing/floor versions of each. Chair and standing/floor versions will be taught in class.
Suggestions for structuring a home practice also will be offered.
Register at www.moundstreetyoga.com and click on CLASSES.
Looking forward to having you join me.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Diana Nyad comments
Before Diana Nyad attempted her swim from Cuba to Florida, she spoke about mind over matter and how that's what would get her to the goal.
When she quit the swim, half way through, trembling and weak, dehydrated and more, she said "There's no mind over matter any more."
How do we approach our bodies? Do we push them around with our mental agenda, or do we form a partnership with them, letting them have equal say in our daily lives?
I've lived a long time of mind over matter and have found there are consequences, much as Diana Nyad has discovered. I am welcoming this time of learning to establish a balance.
Success? Some times each day but not consistently. Practice? Daily; it's the only way I know of to reach the desired result.
When she quit the swim, half way through, trembling and weak, dehydrated and more, she said "There's no mind over matter any more."
How do we approach our bodies? Do we push them around with our mental agenda, or do we form a partnership with them, letting them have equal say in our daily lives?
I've lived a long time of mind over matter and have found there are consequences, much as Diana Nyad has discovered. I am welcoming this time of learning to establish a balance.
Success? Some times each day but not consistently. Practice? Daily; it's the only way I know of to reach the desired result.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Continuing to look
In my home practice, I find that the breath either enters or does not enter quite specific areas of my body. Watching that area sometimes opens it up so that the breath enters. Other times, the great virtue of the community becomes evident as I surrender to the teaching of many others. Our community is rich with highly skilled practitioners and teachers. This weekend I will be repeating Cathy Holway's basic course, learning again how to hold space in a body with complete respect for the client's pace and neurology.
The rhythms of the body are many: the breathing, the heart and circulation, lymph movement, and the cranial-sacral fluid. What does it feel like when the rhythms are in synch with each other, and we surrender to the wisdom of our body's vast complexity?
The rhythms of the body are many: the breathing, the heart and circulation, lymph movement, and the cranial-sacral fluid. What does it feel like when the rhythms are in synch with each other, and we surrender to the wisdom of our body's vast complexity?
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