Nancy O'Brien Yoga

Yoga At Bethesda: Our Best Defense #in

nancy — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:33:04 +0000

International Association of Yoga Therapists led its magazine Yoga Therapy Today with my article about putting a Yoga Therapist on staff, full time.

Our Best Defense

Looking For Safe Yoga for Arthritis, Chronic Pain?

nancy — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:55:17 +0000

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 and more well-trained teachers are joining the ranks every day.

Below are links to help you find knowledgeable teachers who might be near you. I’ve also included links to my ongoing Yoga for Arthritis and Chronic Pain workshops coming up (starting this Sun.!) at Integral Yoga Institute in New York.

Let me know how your search goes.

Here are three great resources where you can search for teachers who might be near you.

http://www.yoga4arthritis.com/Find-a-Teacher.html

http://www.therapeuticyoga.com/people/find-teacher.html

http://www.iayt.org/site_Vx2/profile/search.aspx

On the left is a flyer for my workshop this Sunday, Feb. 26. If you click on the flyer itself, you will be able to get info not only for this workshop but, scrolling down, for the three-week drop-in series in March.

A few more suggestions for finding safe yoga:

– Your nurse or nurse practitioner might be helpful, although doctors themselves are getting on board as well. The community outreach or public education departments of hospitals and medical clinics are also worth checking.

– Look for yoga studios/teachers offering “restorative” or “therapeutic” yoga.

– Check a teacher’s credentials, but also honor yourself by making sure you are with a teacher or in a class where you feel your safety and well-being are Priority No. 1.

Namaste

really living with chronic pain

nancy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:51 +0000

this blogger’s pain spurs creativity & expression that inspires in a very grounded way. http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/life-with-chronic-pain/johnny-cash-and-the-energizer-bunny/?xid=nl_EverydayHealthLivingWithChronicPain_20120209

Having Eyes to See

nancy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:18:45 +0000

This video is worth the 10 minutes! Bring gratitude to your day, everyday!

Again with the NY Times …

nancy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:57:23 +0000

Seven hundred and thirty seven. That’s how many comments the NY Times got for its “How Yoga Can Wreck the Body” piece in the Sunday magazine before the paper cut off comments. LOVE IT! And it was still the most emailed piece the last time I looked. Gives me hope, really, that with all the interest in yoga, more and more people all the time will be being kind to themselves, listening to their bodies and finding a way through a breath or a lengthened arm to be as open as possible in that moment. ahhhh ….

restorative yoga in the morning

nancy — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:15:49 +0000

all gratitude to sarah for om-ing for me tomorrow a.m. at integral yoga institute for Restorative Yoga. enjoy following her calm, peaceful guidance into your own the healing stillness ….

it’s mommy toe week

nancy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:38:57 +0000

in mind-body #yoga today at #Bellevue (temporarily and aptly renamed All Saints Hospital so Edie Falco et al could shoot some ‘Nurse Jackie’ scenes), we chose the new toe of the week. it’s the one next to the big toe. we’re calling it the mommy toe. it’s a long one — and we stretched it. we sent it some gratitude and reached down through it. rooting our intent through that usually unnoticed toe, we could feel it’s strength. happy to know you, mommy toe, and have a great week!

pinky toe week

nancy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:52:53 +0000

each week, we pick a toe, in #chair yoga or #mind-body yoga, and send it some
#gratitude and attention.
we get to know each one better as the weeks turn to years. we pick them all up
— at least those toes that we can —
and spread them out. we reach each one forward and down. when we come to the toe of the week,
all honor and salutations for all that toe is now and ever has been
— stubbed, powerful, sore, tended. we sink down, as if in sand. and when we rise up to salute the moon or sun, whether with feet on the floor or in another moment on a bed’s footboard,
we soar.
happy pinky toe week!

Everyday Yoga for Arthritis & Chronic Pain / 3-Week Open Series

nancy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:29:11 +0000

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 arthritis and chronic pain can cause. Practices will be introduced that will enable you to release the deepest healing and restorative powers of the body and mind throughout your normal daily and nightly routines. For info, go to iyiny.org, click on workshops and scroll down to Oct. 16.

tracking integrative medicine

nancy — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:31:14 +0000

#John Weeks nails it with his monthly roundup of how integrative, alternative approaches to patient care are making headway — or not — check his latest here: https://www.integrativepractitioner.com/article.aspx?id=18560
btw, yoga gets a specific mention this time. #IAYT — the International Association of Yoga Therapists — gets a well-deserved nod, along with #Kripalu and the #Samueli Institue, for fast-approaching yoga therapy research events.