Where is Your Head?

Unless you spend a lot of time birdwatching, picking fruit, flying a kite, or stargazing, you are probably bringing your head out of alignment most of the day.  Where should it be?  Centered and balanced over your spine. Where is it?  Most likely too far forward.

Kyphosis, curvature of the spineIt’s not just the ever-increasing time we spend on our mobile phones, other activities also contribute: reading, house cleaning, cooking, gardening, crafts, tending to children and pets.  Any time you are working with your hands, you are looking down and forward.  Unless you have an ergonomic configuration for your desktop computer (more likely in an office than at home), your head is probably forward. Continue reading

3 Particular Benefits of a Yoga Practice

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As yoga gains in popularity, the claims of its benefits are numerous, ranging from the technically medical to the wildly metaphysical.  At times it seems like a cure-all, which can also make it appear over-rated and perhaps bogus.

Yoga is a both a weight-bearing and stretching exercise so it is expected that it will improve your strength and flexibility. From my own practice and the comments from my colleagues and students, I’ve decided that there are three simple yet wonderful things that are particular to yoga and can be widely achieved.
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