Category: Yoga

What To Do In Case of an Injury

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In all my classes, one of the the most frequently asked questions is what to do after an injury.  Today I am addressing this question with 3 basic steps: Step 1: RICE:  When an injury has first occurred, the protocol we are all taught to use is R.I.C.E.  This stands for rest, ice, compression and elevation. Step 2: Restore Mobility:  When swelling subsides and most of the tissue has healed, we start to move that area again in order to retrain the damaged tissue. Step 3: Restore strength, stability and flexibility to the area and scar tissue. On step 1:…

Turning Stress Into Strength

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With her permission, Ellie Miraftabi, MFT. Ph.D. has been gracious enough to allow me to post her article on my website.  Ellie is a licensed psychotherapist and coach.  Thanks for contributing, Ellie! Turning stress into Strength By: Ellie Miraftabi, MFT. Ph.D. Today I want to discuss self-care and turning stress into Strength. More psychologists recognize that self-care helps them be better caregivers. There are self-care basis –eating right, getting enough sleep and exercising regularly – and more luxurious ones. Using them all If you do just one thing, make it exercise.   Psychologist’s research and clinical experience show the critical importance…

Meditation (A Running Into Reality)

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I’d like to address a common misperception I have heard from the public in their attitude towards meditation or people who meditate. This misperception is that practitioners of meditation are escapists. They meditate in order to escape reality. They escape to the mountains or to retreats in order to get away from things because they cannot handle life. This misperception is contradictory to the true meaning of meditation. To Quote Psychologist and Mindfulness Expert, Larry Cammarata, “meditation is not an escape from reality but a running into reality.” Meditation is not worrying about what we said or what other people…

Exercise for Stress Relief

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Tweet Exercise for Stress Relief Stress relief through exercise is not a new trend.  It may seem this way with all of the mind body movements that have made their way into the industry such as yoga, pilates and tai chi.  Keep in mind, however, that yoga and tai chi have been around for thousands of years.  Although, incorporating mindful awareness and breath to physical activity seems new to westerners, exercise has always been a form of stress release.  The mere act lifting weights requires much focus and breath work. One does not need to be consciously meditating during exercise…

Seven laws of success

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I was so inspired by Deepak Chopra’s Seven Law’s of Success that I broke down the laws for my students to read: Law 1: The law of Pure Potentiality: “We are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity… When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.” Practice silence: water ripples example. “In…

Demystifying the Chakras (from a hormonal perspective)

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The practice of opening the chakras is a great mystery to many people who are curious about yoga. Most people are told that the chakras are spiraling energies or bright lights that run up the spine or the shashuma. In western medicine, we do not think of the body as a series of energy passages or meridians. We see it as a biological machine that is run by protons, electrons and energy reactions. In this article, I will attempt to explain the biological, physical and emotional significance of the chakras. I hope this will help demystify their reputation. Learning about…

Yoga and the Eight Fold Path

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This post is a very general overview of the Eight Fold Path as represented by the Yoga Sutras which were written by Pantanjali about two thousand years ago.  I plan to write more in depth posts on the deeper aspects of the Sutras in the future. Raja Yoga, the Eightfold Path, the Sutras Pt. I These are the eight limbs: 1) the Yamas 2) the Niyamas 3) Asana 4) Pranayama 5) Pratyahara 6) Dharana 7) Dhyana 8) Samadhi The first two limbs (the Yamas and the Niyamas) are broken down into subcategories. The yamas mean “restraints” The niyamas mean “observances” I have…
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