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6 Yoga Practices to Relieve Menopause Symptoms
I grew up hearing stories from my older aunts about “the change” and how horrible it was. I remember them sharing night sweats and mood swings horror stories, all while my older uncles would make jokes about... Read more
Postpartum Depression: A Calming Yoga Sequence
New parents may expect the first year of their baby’s life to be filled with joy. But what happens if feelings of exhaustion, frustration, and depression dominate our days? Rather than being a cause of shame... Read more
Prenatal Yoga for the Pelvic Floor
In many ways, pregnancy is an athletic endeavor. For nine months, we train our bodies for the big day: delivering a human into the world. As with any physical challenge, injuries may occur, and often, the... Read moreFeatured Courses
While millions of Americans suffer from pain in the low back and pelvis, many back and hip issues are actually the result of sacroiliac instability (SI), i.e. an imbalance in the sacroiliac joint, which often goes undiagnosed or is improperly treated. Alarmingly, yoga practitioners appear to...Read more
Hip openers are among the most satisfying and powerful yoga poses. They hold a tremendous potential for transformation; they can help us release deep-seated tension and trauma of the past, which many of us hold locked in the hip area. When practiced correctly, hip openers are a great way to soothe...Read more
Yoga is more popular than ever, but as yoga has become a household word, has it also become a mile wide and an inch deep? Are we missing out on the essence of yoga, even as the practice has become a household word? What can we do to capture the deepest aspects of yoga and integrate these into our...Read more
Most people know the importance of core strengthening for health and long-term well-being, but the pelvic floor is an important group of core muscles, which tend to get ignored. “The torso is like a tote bag for your organs,” says Leslie Howard, a Bay area yoga teacher who conducts workshops...Read more
How to Start a Daily Gratitude Practice - 6 Useful Tips
Want to sleep better, enjoy more fulfilling relationships, experience more positive emotions, greater life satisfaction, and lower levels of depression and stress? Introduce a daily gratitude practice... Read more
Prenatal Yoga Practice: Tending to Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Energy
Among the awe-inspiring things about pregnancy are the ways a woman’s body morphs to accommodate her growing baby. Consider the fact that her skin can stretch over her growing belly, that her abdominal muscles... Read more
Yoga to Realign Your Spine: Tackling the Dreaded Dowager’s Hump
Hyperkyphosis and its resultant bent-over posture are often associated with older women (although men get them too). Since the word dowager is a technical term for a “dignified elderly woman,” it began to be... Read more
Yoga for Kids: 6 Ways Yoga Can Keep Your Kids Fit and Healthy
You probably already know that yoga is a healthy activity for adults, but have you ever considered introducing it to your kids? Many adults tend to shy away from yoga as an appropriate activity for children,... Read more
Practicing Yoga Safely: How to Protect Yourself from Hip Injuries
Are people with certain variations in hip structure at higher risk for yoga injuries to the hip? In this interview with YogaUOnline, Dr. Ginger Garner, P.T. and author of Medical Yoga Therapy, talks about why yoga asanas, the way they are commonly practiced, might not be suitable for some people, particularly women who have different pelvic structures. Ginger further discusses how we can spot people at risk for injuries, and what we can learn from science about developing yoga teaching methodology that honors the variations in people’s bodies. Read more
The Power of Lifestyle Medicine: Can A Multimodal Approach Slow or Reverse Alzheimer’s?
Most yoga practitioners will remember the revolutionary findings of Dr. Dean Ornish back in the early 1990s, when he first was able to document that a program of yoga and healthy lifestyle measures had proven... Read more