Let’s talk about shoulders and neck
This month in my blog, I want to talk about shoulders and neck. If you ask me why, the answer is these days most of us tend to move the shoulder joint in one direction only—out in front of us. Think about it: We spend the vast majority of our time on computer keyboards, cell phones, holding the steering wheel, pushing a shopping cart, or shrugging on winter coats. The result? We don’t take our shoulders through their full range of motion on a regular basis, and this repetition of forward-reaching tasks
Why I Love Yoga – Part 2
The Healing Potential of Iyengar yoga. Dear student, I want to share with you why I love yoga. As I wrote in my first blog, my story began in 2005 in St. Petersburg, Russia. At that time, I was a Pilates teacher. I decided to try yoga. I was very lucky my first class was the in Iyengar yoga tradition. After just one hour I was surprised at the change I felt in my body. I felt lightness but also achieved a great workout. But most surprising was the feeling of internal balance
The Healing Potential of Yoga
When Zhanna first met me, I had a shoulder injury that was affecting me in almost everything I did. I had pain in the shoulder as well as referred pain in the upper arm/bicep area. Zhanna gave me modifications for all the exercises, never forgetting to look over at me and check in, despite the large class she was teaching at the time. I asked her for some additional exercises that I could do at home and she gave me several exercises that I could work on in between classes. Slowly, but surely, my
My Experience with Yoga
I started taking Hatha yoga was all by coincidence back in the early 2000. At the time, my wife was promoted to a position that she was not ready for which created tremendous stress in our lives. I have to find some outlets to reduce the stress so we tried ballroom dancing and gym yoga at the same time. In the beginning everything was moving along until she kept stepping on my toes and falling off from the rhythm in dancing classes so we stayed with yoga and it kept
CHRISTMAS AND YOGA
Dear students, Christmas's coming soon and I find myself neglecting my yoga practice and self care. We are all busy preparing for the holidays, shopping, planning and organizing. It's the most beautiful, but also the most stressful time of the year. It's during this time that our bodies and minds need more love and care. Yoga and meditation help us to feel better, leave behind our hectic schedule and enjoy the present moment. It's important to keep up with yoga practice at home and at the studio. In this post I’ve included
FIVE WAYS YOGA HELPS TO REDUCE ANXIETY
For huge numbers of us, what restrains us from arriving at our maximum capacity of functionality in our everyday and working life is anything but an obvious and clearly evident debilitation. Yet it is the accumulated mental and emotional energetic pressure that can show in the physical and mental body as torment and uneasiness commonly known as anxiety disorder, which can hamper if not seriously hinder our advancement forward in our work, our relationships and our individual development if not adequately diverted and released. Such disorders are sometimes accompanied by panic attacks