Really looking forward to being with the Bronx Regional Interagency Council on Aging tomorrow. They’re on the front lines of elder care — a real battlefront always, but particularly fraught these days — and we’ll be doing some de-stressing, some #Tonglen (gratitude to Pema Chodron), some deep relaxing. And we’ll also be talking about bringing [...]
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This hospital — on the forefront of integrating mind-body practices and a #patient-centered approach for so long — offers great yoga programming — for #arthrtis, for #elders, etc. So I’m thrilled to be doing a Meditation & Movement to Ease Chronic Pain series there beginning in April. We’ll be doing safe, gentle restorative yoga [...]
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(No, not that kind of bed yoga, but keep reading … ) Bed yoga always gets such a welcome in my therapeutic yoga classes and workskhops. When you come to yoga for pain and discover that benefit is to be had — in spades — from arranging pillows and blankets and bolsters and neck rolls [...]
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For those living with medical challenges, safe yoga is absolutely key, but it can be hard to find. In the NY area, where I live, hospitals, clinics and senior centers as well as yoga studios are often resources for excellent therapeutically-oriented, experienced teachers. But for many other areas of the country (and the globe), more [...]
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Drop in or take all three sessions, Sundays from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Oct. 16, 23 & 30, Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W. 13th St. (7th & 8th), NYC. Learn how the breath, gentle movement, meditation, and deep relaxation can bring compassionate awareness and some ease to the stiffness, reduced mobility, and even isolation that [...]
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Everyday Yoga for Arthritis/Chronic Pain Easeful Practices for Day and Night with Nancy O’Brien, R.Y.T. Sun 7/10/2011 • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM • $20 Learn how the breath, gentle movement, and deep relaxation can bring compassionate awareness to the challenges, the pain, and the stiffness of arthritis and chronic pain and allow you to [...]
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