Tag: yoga
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Integrating Neuroscience into Yoga Practice
Using Neuroscience to Deepen Yoga Practice, Teaching, and Advocacy. The integration of neuroscience principles into yoga instruction is a legitimate, health-supporting approach. The mind’s power, its regulation, learning, and ability to focus drive physical postures, breath, and meditation. And merging clinical insights into how embodied yoga practice affects the human body offers accessible, evidence-based reflections…
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Yoga Movement: a Whole-body Event
Every movement of the human body is created by the networking of its many systems. The mind thinks, and the brain activates the systems. Signaled by the brain, nerves prompt the muscles, bones, joints, and connective tissue to respond. Neuroreceptors engage to maintain balance. Also, the heart and lungs are ready to deliver the needed…
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How My Healthcare Experience Shaped My Writing
My writing voice was forged long before I ever called myself a writer. It began in high school, as that young, fiery girl faced the challenges of growing up, turned scientific in the college years as each assignment grew in complexity, and continued to hone skills within the walls of a teaching hospital with research…
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Forever a Student: taking a lifetime to build old age
These are three phases of life. The passionate and risk-taking time of childhood, the designing and construction of adulthood and the time of old age – a time when we contemplate and associate all our experiences for our best life. Just as it takes steps to make a mile and days to build years –…
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Vitruvian Man
Not so long ago one would never think of blending the health perspectives from Traditional and Alternative medical philosophies! However, it is now easy to find evidence of the blend and consideration of each other’s practices, therapies and beliefs on many levels of the healthcare and wellness treatment plans. A comparison of the two are…
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The Foundations of Yoga
In the world of advanced yoga poses and intense flows showcased on social media and in studios, yoga can be intimidating for beginners. However, starting with the foundations of yoga is a wise and rewarding approach. Here’s why laying down yoga basics paves the way for lifelong growth and well-being. The Power of a Solid…
