Category: Aging Gracefully

Aging Gracefully with Strength, Balance, Mobility, and Minfulness

Mar 15, 2025

Calming your Mind by Controlling your Breath

When you control your breath, you affect how you feel Many people understand how taking five deep breaths can shift you from feeling stressed to feeling calm. Learning to breathe deeply and slowly calms the nervous system, getting you out of “fight or flight” and back into “rest and digest.” Learning to control your breath
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Mar 12, 2025

Why is Meditation So Hard?

It’s only hard when you don’t understand what it is and how to do it. As a yoga instructor, I hear it all the time: “I can’t meditate because…” Your mind will give you a million reasons why you can’t do it, and I would bet that none of them are actually true. When you
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Mar 8, 2025

Get to Know Your Hips with the Magic of Hip Openers

In the yoga asana practice we often talk about a category of stretching poses called “Hip Openers.” They don’t refer to the area where you “put your hands on your hips,” but target the group of muscles surrounding the hip joints. The “Hips” include the Gluteal muscles (Gluteus maximus, Gluteus medius, and Gluteus minimus), the
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Feb 18, 2025

Thin Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Healthy

Why fat shaming gets us nowhere, and instead we should be kind to ourselves. Obesity, defined as having a BMI over 30, became an “epidemic” in the 90s. Here’s the problem: BMI is garbage. The BMI was originally created in 1832 by a Belgian mathematician and astronomer who was trying to find a quick and
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Jan 4, 2025

Ask a Yoga Teacher: Dancer’s Pose

Keep your lower back feeling strong, not sore First I want to say how grateful I am for all of you subscribers out there (on Substack), reading what I write. I joined Substack in January of 2024 and I never imagined that this little blog of mine would grow like it has. Thank you so
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