Yoga as Medicine
I’ve had the delightful honor of merging my yoga studies from Yoga Medicine® and working with Healthline to produce a series of short flows and quick takes to help you balance common issues from back pain and tech neck. I invite you to join me so that you can experience optimal health.
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Yoga Medicine®’s goal is to deliver modern, relevant information that leaves room for individual differences from one person to another. It recognizes that each injury or illness is unique to the person and needs to be treated as such. Yoga Medicine® trains teachers to a higher level of education so they can work with their students on an individual, case by case basis. Although the Yoga Medicine® training system is rigorous and demanding, it leaves teachers with the highest training credentials and the ability to work in many different settings and with many different individuals.
This 15 minute yoga flow for sciatica is designed to soothe the sciatic nerve, ease back pain, and release areas of tension in the spine, hip, and leg.
This 15 minute yoga flow is designed to calm anxiety and increase relaxation in the body and mind.
Learn three yoga poses to alleviate tight hips and stretch your hamstrings. A feeling of tight or stiff hips comes from tension around the hip flexors. The hip flexor muscles can easily be strained if you overuse them. Watch this video to learn how you can relax and stretch your hip flexor and hamstring muscles with yoga poses.
Learn three yoga poses to alleviate tech neck. Tech neck refers to the aches and pains caused by prolonged use of tech devices – with the head forward, shoulders rounded, and back slumped. Strengthening and stretching your muscles may help alleviate some of that neck pain.
Learn four yoga poses to relieve pressure, pain, and other symptoms from period cramps.
Learn three yoga poses that may promote digestion and help you feel better.