by Deb McDermott | Dec 22, 2022 | Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Meditation, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health
Holidays! This time of year can feel restless. The noticeable shift in so many people’s energy and attention affects even those who aren’t particularly holiday-oriented. Parties, sales, shopping, planning, cooking—all these activities, in abundance and all at once,...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Feb 20, 2020 | Accessible & Adaptive, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Meditation, Pain Management, Pranayama, Research & Evidence-Informed Practice, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health
By Patience Kaltenbach A lack of mobility is often a barrier to receiving healthcare. Decreased mobility may be caused by aging, injury, or chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia. Especially when accompanied by pain and fatigue, a decrease in mobility may make it...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Aug 22, 2019 | Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Research & Evidence-Informed Practice, Sleep & Fatigue, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health
Did you know there’s a yogic technique in which you don’t actually DO anything? Although it’s referred to as “yogic sleep” or “conscious sleep,” in yoga nidra you’re neither purposely asleep nor efforting to stay awake....
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Nov 15, 2018 | Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Sleep & Fatigue, Trauma-Informed Approach, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
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...
by Nina Rodriguez | Apr 17, 2018 | Breath & Nervous System Regulation, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy in Healthcare
By Laurie Hyland Robertson The Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research is coming up in mid-June, so here’s a peek inside yoga therapy’s largest annual international conference. Some aspects of SYTAR, as the conference is known in the yoga therapy...
