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 …
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 …
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.
Watch Donna discuss the benefits of an Original Body Wisdom Walking Clinic.
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 …
An introduction to Yoga and movement for help with Parkinson’s Disease. Move better, faster, easier and with more confidence and balance.
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 …
When I was younger and felt strongly about mastering each Asana (posture) I encountered; I went for getting the postures “right” at the expense of pleasure I could have on the way. Don’t get me wrong. Certainly, I enjoyed practicing …
A BULLWHIP???!!! Isn’t that sexist, sexy, weirdly S&M or an obsession with a weapon? In any case, how could a Yoga teacher be interested in doing this? I mean, Isn’t Yoga about serenity and all of that? Or at least …
Practice makes perfect. That’s our ideal, right? To really get those Yoga poses, dance moves or movement patterns JUST RIGHT. After all, then we will be happy or accomplished or perhaps worthy of our art. But what about awareness? You …
