Here is part 4 of this morning warm up series.

When you co-ordinate your mental intention, your breathe with the physical action, then you have real  power.

So remember to breath correctly while doing all your yoga poses.

This video teaches a great way to practice synchronizing your breath with movement.

Yoga & the Organic Body, Morning Leg Warm up Part 4

This pose is great for the abs, back and legs. There is a lot of attention to detail that is needed to do this yoga pose properly. Practice along with this video for several days in a row to really get it. After that be sure to refer to the video from time to time as a refresher. Remember – daily yoga practice!

Try these two poses and see what happens.

In these exercises we are toning the whole front body to observe the release of the back body.

Pay careful attention to what she says about the knee in the beginning of the video. Our goal is to make the body feel better and eliminate any pain, not cause pain. Careful attention to proper instruction is important in yoga.

Yoga & the Organic Body, Morning Leg Warm up, Part 3

Tone both the neck and abdomen and observe the release of the neck and spine that comes from the law of  ”reciprocal inhibition”  ie; the release of the antagonistic muscles.

Did you feel your back release?  Were you able to let go of tension and hardness in your kidneys?  Let me hear from you.

Namaste, Lillah

It beats doing a bunch of sit ups.

This exercise was actually taught in a class called, Yoga for Back Pain. So this movement may be of help to people suffering from back pain issues.

Lillah is an experienced yoga teacher and does a great job of teaching this exercise.

Tone Up the Abs, Yoga style

So get a chair, lie on the floor and tone up those abdominal muscles.

There are a lot more great yoga videos on Lillah’s Youtube Channel.

Check out Therapeutic Yoga for Back Pain DVD’s

Dear Blue Ridge Commission Members,

I am distressed by the prospect of the shipping of nuclear waist from Germany to Tennessee for processing.   Asheville is one of the proposed routes from Virginia Beach. Not only that , Our “new energy future ” proposed by Obama’s administration includes starting up the building of more nuclear power plants after a 30 year nuclear freeze.

In light of the continued meltdown of the Japanese nuclear plant after the tsunami, the almost same scenario after the mississippi flooded this past spring, and the “cracks” discovered and not yet discovered in the Virginia nuclear plant after the recent east coast earth quake, It is time we pay attention. Nuclear Power is not safe and remains a risk to civilization as we know it.

Have our elected officials been blinded by the nuclear industry?  Are you blinded?  It is a ‘no win’ situation, as not only does the cost of producing the uranium for a plant greater than the power the plant produces, there is still no way to satisfactorily handle the waste. The percentage that nuclear power contributes to our energy needs is I believe below 20%. Solar energy can easily make up that small percentage from daytime usage even with out storage. I know this as I have solar panels on my house that reduced our consumption by 33%!

Also, I am not interested in a tax surcharge on my electric bill to cover the costs of production and “clean up” as if satisfactory clean up was possible. If the people of Germany can choose to close down their nuclear plants, so can we. It is time for all of us to make our voices heard. Why have these meetings not been better publicized?

And we need alternative power options now.

Lillah

Helpful links;

No nuclear waste in WNC!

Local non-profit creating awareness about nuclear waste and WNC

Did you know infant mortality rates were up by 35% in 5 major west coast cities 4 months after the nuclear accident started? Go ahead Google it. Fukushima – worst nuclear accident in history.

For great understandable information visit: Nuclear Information and Resource Service

For opportunities to give public input  two links:

Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear future – many meetings in October – Make a comment Please! You can also simple copy and email my letter to them directly here: CommissionDFO@nuclear.energy.gov.

Send your Representatives an email through http://www.house.gov/   ’Find your Representative’ , type in email , click go.

Thank you! – May all Beings be Happy… Safe and Healthy. Namaste, Lillah

Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Watch and listen to the full - Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’

If you are interested in more studies and resources for yoga therapy, become a member of  IAYT at this Link.

SYTAR – Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research September 1-4, 2011 Monterey, California

Thank you for reading. I hope the information was helpful to you.  Namaste, Lillah

I am also offering an intro to this course at the Yoga Alliance Leadership Conference Oct 30, 2011 in Palm Springs , CA.
Lighten Up Yoga with Lillah Schwartz – Live Interview

Thanks for watching. The basic course consists of two weekends, Only 3 spaces remain. Interested?

Call the studio 254-7756  Namaste, Lillah

“I AM” – Official Trailer

I hope to see the film this weekend as it opens Friday in Asheville. Popcorn anyone?

Nuclear toxicity is not a party. As I find myself growling and holding my breath, I remind myself of the nature of impermanence…. embracing that which does not change, the ground of being, the source of life. It appears one must let go of resistance to be able to feel into this deeper truth and allow it to arrise.   May your yoga practice keep you connected to this truth, and may you educate yourself, and make your voice heard. Not a voice of fear and anger, but rather the voice of knowledge that leads to solutions.

Here are some links that will help you gain knowledge as well as give you opportunities to donate to a matching gift fundraiser for the Japanese Red Cross or the NIRS – Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

Spread the word – IF president Obama ends the Nuclear Freeze, Big Sandy Mush will be considered as a dump site. We could be in the same situation as Japan. Just say NO, but say it somewhere somehow and often.

For local educational events in April contact UNCA or Mary Olsen - maryo@nirs.org www.nirs.org   828-252-8409 cell 828-242-5621

From Infoholix health news; “There is no such thing as a safe level of radiation, and you don´t need any particular receptors or genes and it doesn´t have to run in your family either.

Read about what level causes what and a breakdown of radiation threat by country from Russia to USA here
http://infoholix.net/blog/2011/03/15/japan-radiation-and-your-health/

Yours in Truth and Light, Lillah

You can also buy a copy of any of several books in this series through my blog – http//: www.Lillahschwartz.com

Combining Science and Yoga with Some Personal Reflections , Free E-Book by Dr. Ray Long

“So I began to analyze the positions of the major joints in the poses—the hips, knees, shoulders, and elbows, etc.  Once I understood the general form of the asana, I would shift my focus to the individual joints and the muscles that produced that form in the pose. For example, if the hips were extended, then I would intentionally engage the gluteals; if the elbows were straight then I contracted my triceps, and so on. This is key—focus on what the major joints and their muscles are doing and the asana will emerge. In a pose like Janu Sirsasana this might be as direct as engaging the quadriceps of the straight knee and the hamstrings of the bent one.”