Good Posture with Yoga – Part 6

Here is the final video in the series, Improve Your Posture with Yoga.

For this one, find a doorway to stand in front of.

If there isn’t a good doorway around, you can use a friends arms. Read More…

Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 5

Good posture is an important part of  healthy living.

Here is how to use the wall to your advantage with this standing forward bend over the leg. This is a challenging pose lengthening both your hamstring muscles and your outer arm and chest. Relieve your back pain in minutes.

So slide your yoga mat up to the wall and give it a try. Read More…

Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 4

Here is part 4 in the series, how to create better posture with yoga.

Good posture can be elusive for many Americans as so many of our daily activities have us bending forward or “stooping over” in some fashion.

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Sacroilliac Joint Dysfunction in Yoga

What a pleasure it was sharing the Roger Cole workshop with you last weekend. I so appreciate Roger, his clarity as an anatomist and his equanimity as a scientist, as I imagine you do as well. Read More…

How Yoga serves for back pain relief.

Relief from Back Pain with Therapeutic YOGA  by Lillah Schwartz

How did I end up with this pain? Will it ever go away?  What can I do to enhance the healing process?  These are questions more than 50% of visitors to doctors ask when suffering from back pain. As a hard working, busy, active person you may have already asked those questions, because you have experienced back pain.  One solution to help enhance relief from back pain is…Therapeutic Yoga.

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Improve Your Posture with Yoga – Part 3

Pelvic Lift or Setu Bhanda Sarvangasana is an excellent single pose for those of us who spend time sitting…

This pose will help increase the length of your psoas muscle and releive back pain.

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Improve your Posture with Yoga – Part 2

Belly Turning Pose

Belly Turning Pose

Use Belly Turning pose to help relieve tension in your kidneys and spinal muscles.
This will help you release stiffness and gain flexibility in your chest and shoulders. A wonderful warm up for the other poses in this series… Read More…

Improve Your Posture – Video Series-Part 1

Improve Youtr Posture

Improve Posture

Part 1 of Six Simple Poses to Improve Posture.

Siting long hours in chairs, driving in cars, stress and tension are some of the reasons there is so much poor posture today.

Lillah gives us 6 poses to stretch, strengthen and tone the muscles involved in proper posture. Read More…

Yoga: A Promise Among Unfulfilled Promises, by Aadil B. Palkhivala

The promise of the machine age was freedom. Freedom from a stresses of farming and milking, freedom from the bondage of cleaning and washing, freedom from walking and bicycling. The assurance of more time. Read More…

In the Presence of BKS Iyengar, by Lillah Schwartz

There are moments in the lives of those of us who seek truth and beauty that leave us forever changed. For yoga enthusiasts, one such moment was the recent Yoga Journal conference in Estes Park, CO. in September 2005 where BKS Iyengar began his teaching and U.S. tour for his new book Light on Life. Read More…