I teach a FREE! Public Pain Care class on the last Wednesday of each month, and today is our first installment into 2016 class series. Yesterday I posted this question on Facebook to introduce people to one of the corner-stone principles of PAIN CARE SCIENCE: Which...
Nadi Shodhana means, "clearing the channels of circulation," and is sometimes known descriptively as alternate nostril breathing. This breathing technique has a quieting effect and is very helpful in reducing mental turbulence associated with anxiety and insomnia....
A brief pre-class interaction between two students instantly reminded me of a homework I was given a few years back in one of my advanced trainings. I actually almost interjected in this exchange, but then promptly closed my mouth to wait for when an opportune moment...
This blog post started with a splash. Well, more accurately, it started with a moment of hesitation followed by a loud splash and a cold dunk. Brrrrr! Up until that pride-shattering moment I firmly believed that my balance was awesome – I could rock a Tree pose in any...
We are in the middle of a late evening yoga class, and I’m watching a dozen of students precariously balancing on one foot with their eyes closed. I deeply admire their courage: for most of us it takes a lot of guts to try something unfamiliar, especially if that...
For the last few weeks we’ve been talking PAIN. We’ve looked at the latest in the pain science research and discussed pain-induced fear. Most of us think we know pain. After all, pain is an indisputable part of human experience; most of us have had at least one, if...
Good morning yogis! Since I’m spending my summer walking, I couldn’t help but share with you a few nerdy nuggets about the many benefits of walking, especially, of course, properly aligned walking: ~ Walking is one the most beneficial movements you can do, if not the...
This chapter is a final installment into the Air element inquiry. Let’s recap where we’ve been and chart our future course. In the previous weeks we’ve looked at the Ayurvedic approach to health and healing, and discussed the qualities of Space and Air – first two of...
Welcome to the second installment into the Air element discussion. We ended last week’s conversation with a glimpse of Ayurvedic principle of interconnectivity (quantum physics calls this “law of entanglement”), and our own personal inside look into the nature of this...