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

The Aging Brain: I’ll Never Forget What’s-His-Name

Photo of trees losing their leaves, courtesy of the Center For Brain Training: https://www.centerforbrain.com/conditions/memory-loss/The article At Capacity by Melissa Kirsch (copied here) appeared today in my morning New York Times newsletter and it really resonated with me.  Her struggles are painfully familiar. I am also an avid reader who has trouble remembering what I’ve read, especially if I read it on my Kindle, where everything seems transient and ephemeral.  It’s different with hardcopy books; every time I pick them up, I see the title and the cover and those visuals seem to help…somewhat.  Sadly, books aren’t the only things I wrestle with. Continue reading

Teaching Yoga on Zoom: My Path to Acceptance

At the start of 2020, I was teaching two yoga classes at a local dance studio and was about to start a new weekly series for Duke University employees. My calendar was as full as I liked it, with room for other yoga gigs that periodically came my way. This all came to a  Covid-19 dead stop in March. Pandemic-mania meant time for me to take a break. I was not interested in moving my classes online, either with YouTube videos or scheduled Zoom sessions. I felt the Internet was already flooded with good content, much of it affordable or free. I thought “I’ll just wait it out, resume in-person classes when the situation improves.”  Are you laughing along with me?

Teaching yoga at home

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