Yoga Therapy and Cancer Care
I saw this article online on the BBC today Complementary cancer therapies ‘do more harm than good’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50409431 In the main, it’s referring to herbal remedies, and it’s arguable whether these really qualify as a...Yoga Therapy – Whats It All About
You may have seen me use the term “Yoga Therapy” in social media, and indeed on this site – so whats it about? What makes Yoga into Yoga Therapy? What is Yoga Therapy About? Yoga Therapy uses Yoga practices on a tailored basis to help with...How Does Yoga Relieve Chronic Pain?
Fascinating article in Psychology Today on how Yoga helps relieve Chronic Pain. Chronic Pain is “pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing” – Used intelligently, Yoga can make a significant difference in conditions like Chronic Pain....Coherent Breathing
A few of you have asked for a link to the chimes I use in class for the Coherent Breathing practice, where we take the breath down to six breathes a minute The link for the chimes is: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/respire-1/id1120414310 or...Chakra Meditation
From the workshop on Energy and Chakra’s this morning, this is the Chakra Mediation I used – albeit shortened in class – and the one I use myself in my own practice. I use Insight Timer app, iOS/android, with a 18 minute timer and 2 minute intervals...Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Yoga as Remedial Therapy
A 2015 scientific review by Kavuri et al around therapeutic yoga for IBS. If IBS is a problem for you, then this may be worth a read. In fact the implications are wider as this quote shows: “Taken together, Yoga practices enhance physical flexibility, energy...Don’t Get Stressed About It! Stress And How Yoga Can Help
This is an article I wrote for Island Magazines, but it bears distributing wider as Stress and the Nervous System seems to come up a lot in class and, let’s face it, which of us haven’t been stressed at some time? Don’t Get Stressed About It! How often do...Weight loss, diet and stress
I was talking to someone recently about weight loss – they were concerned that no matter how hard they exercised and dieted they were putting weight on not loosing it. Body image was becoming a concern for them as they crept up two dress sizes.As usual I make...Yoga and Backs – a Personal Reflection
“A Journey with my back” Update 2019 – I wrote this article in 2015, since then, and drawing on my Yoga Therapy Studies, I would be looking at wider causes of back pain, including nervous system dis-regulation and stress, as well as knowledge that back...
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