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Wellness Practices for Cognitive Enrichment (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)
Many Yoga classes focus on Cognitive Enrichment — as we learn new skills, repeat patterns and involve the use of more than one sense.
Remembering the Forgetting – Memories of my Dad
Yoga practices and other lifestyle improvements may help with memory loss. Let’s keep our memories alive in our hearts and minds.
Wellness Practices for Diabetes Self-Management
Weight reduction, stress-management and daily exercise can help control the factors that lead to Diabetes. Yoga can be part of the solution!
Essential Program: Healing & Recovery
Your body has an innate ability to heal. Just like your skinned knee eventually healed when you were a young child, your body knows how to heal wounds, broken bones, damaged soft tissues and even organs.
Movement Guidelines: Healing & Recovery
Move other parts of your body to assist oxygen flow to the injured or affected area; Circulation is important for the healing process
Arthritis in the Hands – What can we do about it?
As we age, osteoarthritis usually starts to show up in our hands. Thankfully, there are a few things we can do to relieve this discomfort!
Essential Program: Balance & Coordination
If you have noticed your balance is not what it used to be, then you are in the right place! Indeed, our ability to balance changes over the years. There is a concept called proprioception that is key to achieving and maintaining good balance.
Movement Guidelines: Balance & Coordination
Enhance your proprioception (i.e., your perception or awareness of the position and movement of your body) by practicing feeling off balance. Use patterns to challenge your mind/body connection.
Improve your Balance by enhancing your Proprioception
Thankfully, we can improve our balance by working on our proprioception — our sense of knowing where our body is in space.
Keep your Feet Healthy… They do a lot for you!
We see a lot of bare feet in Yoga classes. Panning the room, I can see swollen and discolored feet, toes that jam together, ankles that turn outward, flat feet, corns and calluses. And then I see...