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 …
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 …
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 …
I said it. In public. After all, Now two students have independently named it and when I joke about it to others there is a recognition. “Donna, you should call this Homeopathic Yoga” Well, what is homeopathy? It can be …
Stress isn’t all bad. In fact, you need a certain amount of positive stress to encourage healing and to build strength. Physical therapy is very good at providing positive stress. It’s what makes you push to a new plateau or …
Sounds simple but also far fetched, doesn’t it? But really, deep in our brain, the limbic system decides if any particular stimulus is worthy of activating our “fight or flight or freeze” mechanisms. If activated we either put tremendous energy …