Everything I thought I knew about healing was turned on its head when I learned about neuroplastic pain. It simultaneously ruined life as I knew it, and gave me back/forward a brand new life that I’d longed for for over 15 years.
It started with “popping” my rib out. Then with new hip pain. Then with new shoulder pain. And on and on. I mistakenly believed there was one right way to move.
Here are 7 common yoga cues I’ve heard recently that should really be left in 2020. Maybe even 2012.
This question has guided the better part of my life. This is my story of questioning healthcare professionals, learning to hear my body, and ultimately finding freedom.
Sometimes we sit. Here are ways to sit less, sit better, and get creative in your more sedentary lifestyle.
Interviewing for physical therapy school, I heard the inherent assumption, “To work hard, you must be stressed.” Wanna bet?
The pain, aches, and beauty in my body cannot be separated from the aches, pains, and beauty of my life… of my life’s experiences, of my thoughts, of my heart.
While not seemingly yoga related... what isn’t yoga related? Ways to make friends with dis-ease.
How much of the pain, the anxiety, the happiness, the emotions we feel are actually because of what is happening to us right now?
In what ways do you use momentum to avoid discomfort? I have been exploring this question over the past month. Why am I rushing this conversation? What is it I am trying to avoid feeling?
"This," she said, "is presence. And when you are present, time is irrelevant." That’s the thing about being present, you never leave. We continued, laying out a new tarp to cover the chicken coop.
The crackly crow of the rooster is the first thing I am conscious of in the morning. Before my glasses are on, before my skin feels the weather, I hear that the day is indeed starting once again.
Don’t get me wrong, meditation can get some people pretty far on the pain healing journey. Yet even with a dedicated daily yoga and meditation practice, I still found myself in massive amounts of chronic pain. This article explains why.