Donna Brooks explains an essential tool for being effective and confident while all eyes are on you.
Change Your Movement, Change Your Life
“Movement is life. Life is a process.Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.” Moshe Feldenkrais What needs to improve in your life? Do you need more fun? More relaxation? More flexibility? …
Strong Bones: A Well Aligned Sketeton in Motion
Donna Brooks, yoga therapist and movement analyst from Original Body Wisdom, joined us with tips on increasing bone health and developing a well aligned skeleton.
The Amazing Gliding and Sliding Joints
Happy Holidays and New Year This New Year take some pressure off of your joints. Joints benefit from healthy movement. They need to rotate and GLIDE. Too often we aviod painful joint movement or try to exercise them into getting …
Bone Health: A Well Aligned Skeleton in Motion
Does your basic movement intelligence help or hinder your fitness? Research shows that bad posture and inefficient movement predict how quickly you could find yourself in a nursing home. I don’t want to see that happen any time soon and neither …
Video: The Mountain Pose (Tadasana) from the pelvic floor
Donna Brooks E-RYT 500 Yoga Therapy and Movement Education teaching the basis for Tadasana and the vertical axis. A part of the Original Body Wisdom walking and gait clinic.
Video: Simply Talking: Walking Clinic interview with Donna
Watch Donna discuss the benefits of an Original Body Wisdom Walking Clinic.
Reflections on Teaching Yoga and Movement for Parkinson’s Disease
For the past three years I have had the very good fortune of teaching a Yoga and Movement for Parkinson’s class out here in Hadley / Northampton Mass. I say good fortune because I get to watch courage, honesty and …
Video: Yoga and Movement for Parkinson’s Disease with Donna Brooks
An introduction to Yoga and movement for help with Parkinson’s Disease. Move better, faster, easier and with more confidence and balance.
What’s up with Yoga therapy and why might I want it?
In my mind, Yoga therapy is the process of liberating the natural intelligence of the body to reverse the aching, pain and limitations we feel from age, injury and misuse. Most of us struggle to correct imbalances and problems while …