So often I take for granted the group yoga class and the students who take them. Admittedly, I’m much more diligent on getting health history when I’m working with individual clients. Recently however, I was teaching a group class and at the end one of the students came to me explaining that she [...]
This weekend Michael and I are in Montreal visiting a former manager of mine from my corporate days. On our way back from downtown Montreal today, a headache brewed in my head. I closed my eyes and started to fall asleep as I stretched out in the back seat. I was exhausted [...]
Tonight I gave a short stress management talk to an attorney’s group that meets at an assisted living facility on the South Shore. We talked a bit first about stress and then I led the women through a progressive relaxation exercise.
After the exercise, while we were talking and I answered questions one of [...]
For the last few days I have been presenting stress management trainings at an organization north of Boston. I presented part 1 of a 2 part training. After 6+ hours worth of training sessions and talks, I’m starting to think that learning to manage stress may be more overwhelming than the stress itself! [...]
This month is a stress management training month. Last week I had the opportunity to speak about managing stress to a small networking group, this week I give a talk to a lawyers group in addition to a series of trainings to employees at a local behavioral health center. Each time I give [...]
Today I had the pleasure of attending a workshop at a yoga studio in Sharon, Breathe Joy Yoga. The workshop, entitled Hips with Heart, was led by David Vendetti, the 2005 Best of Boston yoga instructor.
It is said and believed that we hold a lot of emotional stress and trauma - anger, [...]
So often when we think of wellness it’s about getting to the gym, a yoga class, getting a massage or other spa related treatment. My belief is wellness goes far beyond the physical and emotional and also into financial, environmental and planning for the future. Now, as a yoga practitioner and instructor, so [...]
The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research released a report yesterday stating that “about 40 percent of all cancers are linked to food, lack of exercise, and body weight.”
This reported is stated to be the most comprehensive report ever linking personal habits to cancer.
7000 studies over a 5 year period [...]
