Overview Protocols are needed for studies to confirm that Yoga is indeed effective in treating Chronic Low Back Pain. Their nature is to take an asana treatment plan that can be applied across a broad population to substantiate the positive effects of the practice....
Damaged basal ganglia cause Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases
Justine and I read alot about health, wellness, aging, Yoga and especially senior health. We often are sending each other articles and links about some interesting news or tidbits and asking each other what we think. It could be anything from some medical research...
Why Teach Yoga at Senior Care Facilities
The courageous and the lonely. That is what I see in the beautiful people at the various Senior Care facilities where I teach Chair Yoga. Almost all of them are in wheelchairs with some kind of physical or mental limitation. I would say half are stroke survivors and...
Teaching Ideas outside the Box
I had conversations with six different Yoga teachers this week. From Michigan and Indianapolis, to N. Carolina and Arizona and two fairly local to where I live in California. All of us are in the age range between 50 and 70. And what amazed me about these individual...
What to do with Students who get Dizzy in Yoga?
Do you worry about your students? How can we not! We worry when they don't show up. We wonder how they are doing with that sore shoulder, or the low back twinge they told us about. And we often worry that they might trip, fall and get hurt ... and especially not to...
Get Your Students to Take their Shoes & Socks Off
How can we keep on bringing new ideas into our Yoga Teaching? How can we learn new ways to explain or reinforce important concepts? How can we get out of our own teaching rut? I have a simple answer that takes a little work on our parts. There are two steps involved....
Traveling the Rural Ireland Countryside to Teach Chair Yoga!
What makes us smile? It's hearing from Yoga Teachers like yourself who share how much they are learning from our free Teacher resources, our online workshops, certification programs, and our YouTube video vignettes. I think you know by now that our small team of...
Getting Off Track and Back on…. A Yoga Teacher Shares His Journey
I would like to share a few lines with you to keep you in the loop of my progress with yoga (specifically) the online chair yoga course. Three days ago (9/3/16) I celebrated my one year anniversary as a stroke survivor. One year since everything in my (and my wife's)...
Why Core Strengthening Helps with Organ Prolapse as we Age
"My doctor says I don't need surgery any longer!" Those words came from one of my 70-something year old Chair Yoga students recently. She was beaming from ear to ear. Guess what the proposed surgery was?..... prolapse repair. Shhhh... most people don't want to talk...
How to Turn a Factoid into a Yoga Class Sequence
How can we continually come up with something "new" every time we teach? Follow the 70/30 formula. Which is 70% of what you teach in a Yoga class is familiar to your students and 30% is new (or a new twist on an old thing!) How can we fill in that 30% that keeps...