Yoga therapy helps PTs address all aspects of patients’ pain
In a first for both professions, physical therapists and yoga therapists Neil Pearson, Diana Perez, and Shelly Prosko presented a session on integrating the two fields in practice at Congress 2018 of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA). The group also...
Get some (yogic) sleep!
Yoga nidra, or “yogic sleep,” is one tool your yoga therapist might recommend to help with restlessness, repatterning of unhelpful thought habits, insomnia, and more. That might sound a little…esoteric, but this type of guided meditation practice is...
A Journey into Yin Yoga
BOOK REVIEW: A Journey into Yin Yoga, by Travis Eliot Review by Michelle Pietrzak-Wegner This new addition to the Yin Yoga literature is a well-designed manual for approaching this quiet practice—a possible antidote to our fast-paced, yang-oriented lives (and usual...
Life reimagined: Yoga therapy for amputees
By Marsha T. Danzig Yoga philosophy views every student as whole and complete. A well-designed yoga practice is a specific invitation to re-remember our essential wholeness, regardless of the physical body’s form. Amputees deal with unique challenges—phantom pain,...
