To achieve a healthy balance in an exercise program it is important to include three aspects: strength, flexibility and cardio fitness. Strength without flexibility tends towards stiffness or rigidity. Flexibility without supporting strength tends towards weakness and a lack of vitality. Everyone needs a healthy heart and circulatory system. It might surprise you that Yoga
Meditation from a yogic perspective is simple; it is any technique which shifts the brain-wave patterns to a lower level. Any time you concentrate this shifting takes place. Simply standing in Mountain Pose (Tadasana) and engaging the Bandhas (muscular locks) causes a change. More involved and complicated Asanas make more change. Taking control of your
A fly is determined but it is not very smart. It will bump up against a window over and over again until it dies, trying to escape. There could be a window or an open door a short distance away, but the fly lacks the capacity to be mentally flexible. It is not the fly’s
I encourage you to list 3 things in your life that you would like to implement or improve during 2020. If you give these some thought and focus now, you will increase the potential to influence your life (and who is better to do this?) in the direction of your choice, instead of leaving it
Carroll Lewis wrote “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Where is there? Do you actually want to arrive at there? You will end up somewhere at the end of 2020, but will it be where you want? Intentional living will give you a better chance at having
I find that when I am tired I have less patience. I also find that as I have gotten older I am less prepared to put up with bullshit from people. At 66 I am clearer on my boundaries and quicker to draw the line. I have usurped a quote out of the Mel Gibson
Western medicine does not yet have a concept of “energy” like what you find in the ancient concepts from the East, be they Indian (Prana), Chinese (Chi), or Japanese (Ki). Therefore you have to look at the traditional understandings, e.g. yoga and traditional Chinese medicine and filter it through the Western anatomical approach to health. The book
Yoga – Holistic Healing B, is based on the preceding Holistic Healing A and continues to deepen your knowledge, understanding and training. After your grounding in A, we now work with more complicated health issues, as well as structural misalignments and organic problems, e.g. anxiety, arthritis, asthma, blood pressure, chronic fatigue syndrome, constipation, depression, fatigue,
