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Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Friday Q&A: Opening Your Hips without Knee Pain
Q: I have a question about hip openers. I teach to mostly middle-aged and older populations. Some folks are more physically active than others, but almost all of them spend a lot of time sitting, either in a car or at a desk. Many of them experience tightness in the hips and a smaller sub-set also have issues with painful knees - arthritis, meniscus issues, etc. I was taught that externally rotating the leg can be problematic for the knees, especially...
Thursday, May 28, 2015
5 Ways Yoga Can Affect Your Health
by BaxterRoots by Melina MezaOn this blog, we often address the health benefits of yoga, from its ability to support a generally healthy lifestyle to specific therapeutic benefits that yoga brings to a whole array of injuries, diseases, and conditions (see Common Minor Problems That Yoga Can Help With and Common Serious Problems That Yoga Help With). Therefore, how we are using yoga for health benefits can vary tremendously. So I feel it will be...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Rapid Cellular Changes Triggered by Yoga
by RamGrasses in the Rain by Melina MezaTime and again, we have highlighted on our blog the benefits of yoga for both physical and mental health based on our collective experience and, in several cases, backed by empirical evidence. Evidence-based studies that we referred to in this blog included mechanistic understanding, anatomical changes, structural and functional studies, and molecular changes. But the answer to one question kept eluding researchers...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
7 Ways to Cultivate Equanimity with Yoga
by NinaReflecting Trees By Melina MezaSelf-possessed, resolute, actWithout any thoughts of results,Open to successor failure.This equanimity is yoga. —translation by Stephen MitchellRecently I’ve witnessed some people dear to me suffering from serious physical problems. One is older and has a classic disease associated with aging and the other—who has a serious inherited condition that may lead her to life in a wheelchair—is only in early middle...
Monday, May 25, 2015
Changing the Brain's Stressful Habits (Rerun)
by NinaPeeling Paint by Melina MezaYesterday I read this article Yoga: Changing the Brain’s Stressful Habits in Psychology Today by a neurobiologist, Alex Korb, who took his first yoga class (which, surprise, surprise, turned out to be much more difficult than he was expecting!) and had a little epiphany:“I came to realize that yoga works not because the poses are relaxing, but because they are stressful. It is your attempts to remain...
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Balance Pose of the Week: Consolation Prize
There is no balance pose from Baxter this week. Technical problems. (Yoga teachers have to be able to do so much more than, you know, just teach yoga these days.) Anyway, as a consolation prize, he does have a new hip opener video for you instead. I'm going to embed the video in this post using yet another technique to see if it will past the email test successfully. So if you can see the video in your email (and not just on the blog), let me know.Subscribe to Yoga for Healthy Aging by Email ° Follow Yoga for...
Friday, May 22, 2015
Friday Q&A: Why Focus on Yoga for Healthy Aging?
Young & Old Irises by Melina MezaQ: Dear Baxter, you're not that old yet—or at least you don't look it! So I was wondering why you decided to make yoga for healthy aging your area of specialty.A: It is always hard for me to tell if I choose my specialty or the specialty chooses me! When I was in medical school, I thought I was going to choose to do a surgical specialty, as I was good with my hands and there was a kind of mystic healing that took...
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Yoga for Healthy Aging: Our Philosophy and Our Tools
by NinaPhilosopher in Meditation by RembrandtI always tell everyone, including Brad, that my husband is my worst employee. I mean, how long has it been since Brad has even written a single post for this blog? I don’t even want to know. But the reason I don’t just fire Brad—besides the fact that writing for our blog isn’t really a job and no one gets paid for their work anyway—is that when he does write a post, it is always really outstanding.I’m...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Balance Pose of the Week: A Test
Although I posted this last Saturday, the email version produced an error when readers tried to view the video from the email message. This has been a problem recently. So I'm trying an experiment with this post, and am creating it in a different way, hoping this will resolve the problem. Please let me know if I have succeeded (or not)! —Nina&nb...
Making Yoga Accessible
by NinaI like to think that Baxter and I have a pretty good idea of the range of physical abilities that yoga practitioners have in the real world. We’ve seen some pretty fancy stuff in person, such as crazy arm balances and impossible-looking backbends. But we also know that that the average person, especially the average middle-aged or older person, isn’t able to do the fancy stuff and sometimes even the classic stuff, such as Triangle pose (Trikonasana)...
Monday, May 18, 2015
SOLD OUT!
by NinaYes, we just heard that our first-every Yoga for Healthy Aging intensive (see Yoga for Healthy Aging Summer Intensive) is sold out. We’re letting you know this because Namaste Berkeley, the studio that is hosting the intensive, has started a waiting list. So if you’ve been seriously considering attending, you might want to get your name on the wait list as soon as possible. It is very likely that some people who signed up early might cancel,...
Sunday, May 17, 2015
5 Simple Home Workouts to Lose Weight
It is very difficult to go outside of your house to the nearest gym during peak summers or winters. Fortunately, there are many exercises, equally effective, which can be performed at home in order to lose your weight and maintain a fit body.Most of the exercises performed at home only require your body and no special equipment, but other might require some kind of equipment. However, in comparison to gym equipment, the equipment for home exercises...
Awesome Upper Body Muscle Building Exercises
The reason a lot of people focus on upper body muscle building is because that is the first part of the body we usually see when looking in the mirror. Upper body muscle building also signals a lot of things to society, such as strength, power, health and confidence, to name a few.We will in this article look into some essential upper body muscle building exercises that you can apply to your workout routine and enjoy the results with the consistent...
Choosing A Gym – 10 Things To Look Out For
Now you’ve built your motivation for you to start a working out program, the next thing is to decide what gymnasium that you feel relaxed. In case this isn’t, then chances are you aren’t gonna keep with any sort of a plan all of which will sooner end up totally. You’ll know if the gymnasium is for you, you must help yourself and think ahead for your goals in realizing your fitness and health.Bear in mind if the gymnasium isn’t for you, you can surely...
