How to manage your “body budget”: The Brhmana-Langhana model
The other day I was cooking dinner as my son was watching a kid’s movie about Sid the science kid. I wasn’t paying attention to the actual storyline, but I[…]
Category: yoga for your energy
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Three pillars of physiological health
Your body likes to be in a state of internal balance. It is called homeostasis and indicates a stable internal environment. Homeostasis maintains the state of internal equilibrium on the[…]
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How to work with chronic pain on the level of physiology (part 1)
Some days when I begin my yoga practice I can feel the entire physical history of my body: here is that neck tension from staring at the computer all day[…]
Active listening and pain assessment in a yoga session
One of my clients is currently shopping for a doctor. She is trying to find one that she can stick with for a while and so far she hadn’t been[…]
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Why yoga is effective for chronic pain management
In our digital world technology experts continuously come up with solutions to make our everyday lives easier. Need to share your pictures? There is an app for that! Need help[…]
Do you need tightening or loosening? Stability and ease at every level of the human system
“Clinical psychologists sometimes say that two kinds of people seek therapy: those who need tightening, and those who need loosening. For every patient seeking help in becoming more organized, self-controlled,[…]
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What can home yoga practice do for you?
To be honest, the older I get, the less I am interested in doing yoga for the sake of physical fitness. It somehow feels like a waste of time. There[…]
How chanting OM affects your physiology
When my son was little, I used to sing lullabies to him. Unfortunately, most of the time I couldn’t remember the exact words of the song, so I ended up[…]
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Vagus nerve and sound: Can you “tone up” the whole body?
You don’t need to be a scientist to know that sound (music and singing) has a profound effect on the way we feel, often in a predictable way. For example,[…]
How can we stimulate the vagus nerve in our yoga practice? Part 1
Have you heard the term “stress loop” before? Here is how it works. When your mind perceives something dangerous or stressful it activates the sympathetic nervous system which dumps adrenalin[…]
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Yogic and Ayurvedic views of digestion
A model is a sort of a mental construct that we use to explain and understand reality; it is not reality itself. This is an important point to understand when[…]
The art and science of yoga sequencing: How the order of poses can change the effect of the practice
I remember hating Latin in college. Unfortunately, it was required for my degree, so I had to endure. For example, translating a Latin sentence takes a lot of work because[…]
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How does yoga help with digestion?
In my therapist training many years ago my teacher had asked for a volunteer with some sort of digestive distress when we were discussing the topic of digestion. One of[…]
The Chakra model: the yogic map of personality
In 2002 I went to the Seattle Yoga Conference with the sole purpose of meeting Gary Kraftsow. I loved his book Yoga for Wellness and wanted to study with him.[…]
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An Ode to Warrior
There are a handful of poses that I choose to do in almost every yoga practice, and Virabhadrasana 1 (Warrior 1) is one of them. This pose holds a special[…]
How to take your yoga practice to the next level
When we think about taking our yoga practice “to the next level”, it often conjures images of deeper stretches, more challenging poses, longer practice, etc. These are all fine ideas,[…]
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What’s in your toolbox? Yoga breathing techniques
I signed up for a yoga class in the past titled something like Yoga for the changing seasons that promised to address the energetic and physiological changes that occur during[…]
Mula bandha: what it is and whether or not you need it
Some Sanskrit words had successfully made it into our pop culture. When a lady in a scented candle commercial talks about clearing her chakras, you know that the cat is[…]
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Five currents of prana and how they organize your physiology (5 Vayus )
I heard a theory (and I don’t know whether or not it’s true) that western medicine grew out of studying cadavers, while in the eastern world cutting up the dead[…]
Yogis ahead of science: One nostril breathing determines how you feel
Have you ever heard of the “honeymoon nose”? The proper name for it is honeymoon rhinitis and it reflects the phenomenon that your nose feels congested after prolonged sexual stimulation.[…]
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