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The challenges of Yoga and pain management.

May 25, 2022 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

More questions than answers on how we view and work with pain in yoga By Veronica King A recent post about a pain relief ad in a pharmacy sparked a lively discussion around yoga and pain, one which I was interested in exploring further. It seems to have created more questions than answers. A topic dear to my heart as I tore my hip labrum in a yoga class, this injury and the subsequent pain management was to become my greatest teacher. Many teachers and students have been injured in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Musings from the Mat, Teaching Insights, Uncategorized, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: ahimsa, chronic pain, teaching yoga, yoga therapy

Yoga Therapy vs Yoga Class

December 8, 2021 by Veronica King Leave a Comment

Isn’t all yoga therapeutic? By Veronica King You can be forgiven if you are a little confused about why the term yoga therapy exists, after all, isn’t all yoga “therapeutic”? Well, the answer is Yes AND No. Let’s look at why the need for this distinction has arisen and its applications and implications. Ultimately this distinction between Yoga Therapy and a Yoga Class is making sure that we practice the Yamas and Niyamas, in particular Ahimsa (not harming others) and Satya … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training, Teaching • The Business of Yoga, The Business of Yoga, Uncategorized Tagged With: yoga teacher training, yoga therapy

Health & Healing Through Yoga Therapy: An Interview with Mark Stephens

January 25, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Mark Stephens Yoga Therapy

by Lucinda Staniland I love getting things for free. And I have a voracious and life-long love of books. So the first time I was offered a free review copy of a Yoga book (as part of my Yoga Lunchbox role) I was fairly swept off my feet. You mean, you really want to send me a free book? About Yoga? Now that's an offer I can't refuse. However, I'm now at a point where I do in fact refuse some of these offers. I've learnt that just because a book is free and about yoga, doesn't mean that it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Mark Stephens, yoga therapy

When Overwhelming Thoughts Take Over Your Restorative Yoga Practice

November 27, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Nityda Bhakti, The Yoga Wellness Space Yoga is a practice of turning inward or pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses). It can be hard to do this at times in a more rigorous yoga class, especially for those still learning the poses and therefore needing to fix their focus to others in the room in an effort to get their bodies into the right position. Restorative yoga allows us the space to hold poses for longer, with the support of props, so that we don’t have to use physical effort to do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Practices Tagged With: breathwork, centering, distracting, emotions, grounding, how to yoga, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, overwhelming emotions in yoga, practice, pranayama, pratyahara, restorative yoga, stress management, stress reduction, tolerating discomfort, yoga chitta vritti nirodha, yoga for anxiety, yoga for depression, yoga for trauma, yoga skills, yoga therapy

Am I Endorsing Obesity by Telling Bigger- Bodied Yogis to Love Themselves?

August 20, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author Nityda Bhakti "I am so interested in trying yoga- I just need to wait until I lose this last fifteen pounds." "Yoga? Me?! Do you see my size? I could never lift myself off the ground like that!" I’ve heard comments like these for the past decade that I’ve been teaching. I’ve made it my mission to make friends, family, acquaintances, even strangers for that matter, see that you don’t have to be a certain weight, body-type, gender, age or race to begin a yoga practice. I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: ahimsa, attachment, bigger-bodied yogis, body image, body positivity, eating disorders, fat-shaming, healing, health and yoga, non-violence, obesity and yoga, recovery, self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-hatred, self-love, wellness, yoga, yoga therapy

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