Archive for the ‘healing’ Category
A week out from the move & I can finally feel change in my bones. And it has me asking some good questions, ones I stopped asking for a little while & am glad to return to.
What do I want for myself?
Who do I most want to be?
How do I feel & how do I want [...]
There is a new blogger sending thoughts into the world these days. My friend Tara is working on the 21-5-800 project (5 days a week, 800 words, 21 days) and I really love her writing.
http://tarainlimbo.blogspot.com/
In other blogger world connections, I have named my little trouble tweaky spots in emulation of Kai over at Reluctant Ashtangi and [...]
Why do we resist when we try to do something nice for ourselves? When we try to change, or heal, or take a class or a walk or do our practice or eat a salad, when we know it’s the best possible thing?
Heidi articulated a fascinating line of reasoning on that conundrum this weekend, and I’ve condensed [...]
I have been singing the Travelocity Traveling Gnome theme in my head alot recently. If you’ve seen the commercial you know it… “doo doot doot dooooo!” over & over. Because, as Beloved Husband is very willing to point out, I am, indeed, the happy traveling gnome.
This past weekend I was back at Fresh Yoga in New Haven [...]
First, a disclaimer. That is not my back. I am waaaaaay too chicken to get a tattoo.
During my visit to New Haven, mentoress Heidi offered some really good advice to help with my continuing back rehab. I’m at the stage now where I’m painfree most of the time, but there is some sensation [...]
I’ve been mentally celebrating a lot of little milestones recently. When my back first tweaked, EVERYTHING hurt like hell. Really. As my low back injury heals, types of poses (categories, typologies, however you want to think of it) have in stages become pain-free.
The progression might be of use to others working to heal an injury. There are [...]
I am posting about this subject half in hopes that by doing so, it will resolve.
(It’s the strangest thing — frequently, shortly after I write about a topic, it will change/shift/resolve/mutate. Seems like a signal to the universe that when I am ready to write it out, I’m ready to let it go. Weird.)
Okay, first, gotta [...]
I started doing yoga in the privacy of my own home, keeping company with Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga videos. (Amazingly, these are still available in classic VHS format! But new stuff is also available as downloadable MP3 files. See http://www.poweryoga.com/)
I’d been aware of yoga for a very long time before that. Back in the late 70s my mom would [...]
In Forrest yoga the theme of a class frequently is focusing on bringing healing/breath/freedom/energy to some chosen spot in the body. It may be an injury or just an area that needs attention. A pretty good-sized area, too. Like your lower back, or neck or shoulder or front of the chest or whatever.
But this also begs the question: [...]
Nicole Clark led the second workshop this past Sunday at Back Bay Yoga, focused on the power of touch. Nicole is a powerful Forrest teacher as well as touch therapist, trained in craniosacral therapy among other modalities. She is also a gorgeous Brooklyn girl. This manifests in stick straight black hair, dark lipstick & a fabulous Attitude with [...]