Restoring Health with Medical Yoga

Restoring Health with Medical Yoga

What is Medical Yoga? The Medical Yoga program is a holistically-based health education program that focuses on bringing the body, mind, and spirit into a higher state of health and alignment. This program helps an inidual in the management of stress and in choosing a...
Setting a Sankalpa for Change

Setting a Sankalpa for Change

How Yoga Nidra Can Help with Changing Behavior Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep,” is rapidly gaining in popularity these days, mostly because it’s so blissfully exhilarating. Yoga Nidra is a powerful experience of progressively relaxing and restoring physically,...
The Ten Commandments of Back Pain

The Ten Commandments of Back Pain

Physical injuries or complaints are often what motivate people to seek a Yoga practice for their health and wellbeing. A common, yet unfortunate, physical ailment for many is back pain. With respect to back pain, Dr. Loren Fishman, a back-pain specialist and...
Ayurveda, Addiction, and Recovery

Ayurveda, Addiction, and Recovery

This post is an edited excerpt from Ayurveda Journal of Health, vol. XIV, issue 2, Spring 2016, (16–21). Read the full, uncut article here.  Ayurveda is often introduced and practiced alongside its sister science of Yoga, which has been heartily embraced by a large...
Shake It Off: Neurogenic Yoga™ and TRE®

Shake It Off: Neurogenic Yoga™ and TRE®

What if you could shake off your stress, tension, and trauma? That’s exactly what students are doing when they practice Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) and Neurogenic Yoga. Both practices activate the body’s natural, therapeutic shaking response called...