On Friday May 25th, I was honoured to receive the Excellence in Inter-professional Pain education award from the Canadian Pain Society. I am the first physical therapist to receive this award, and I believe the first educator who is not an academic-researcher, so it is a very special honour. As part of the award, I shared a 45-minute presentation at the conference, so I thought I would write a summary here.

Title: Building New Treatment Paradigms: Beyond gates, fear avoidance and distraction.

Description: The growth in pain science research has supported our efforts to convince health care professionals (HCP) that pain is a real physiological process. In some areas, inter-professional education (IPE) has even been successful in changing clinical practice and outcomes. (more…)

After a three-year sabbatical on email, I’ve decided it’s time to check back in with reality and take a strong hold on my digital life (in other words, my email inbox).

Since I started developing for the web back in 1996, I’ve been witness to one of the biggest time sucks known to man…

…Email, and the steady and ever increasing mountain of crap that somehow finds its way into my inbox (and more recently into my pocket, thanks to the iPhone). (more…)

Attending this workshop was a change of plan for me (I won’t tell you the one I ditched out on in order to go listen to Edi!)…for whatever reason, when this afternoon came, I was just pulled to check out what Edi Pasalis had to say in her workshop More Hours or More Per Hour? Lessons in Right Livelihood From MBSR. Maybe it’s because I’m new to this whole “yoga teacher” thing and I could use some sound-headed business advice, or maybe it’s just because I like the way “right livelihood” rolls off the tongue. Whatever it was, it was enough to pull me in. (more…)

Greetings, YH-VC Goers! (Or, for you non-acronym-types: Greetings, YogaHub Virtual Conference Goers!!)… Are you getting as excited as I am for the main event? Five full days of virtual conference awesome-ness is a-coming, and I am jazzed! At last, enlightenment shall be mine!!

Well, alright, enlightenment might be a tall order for a single conference…but a girl can dream, can’t she? Sigh… (more…)

I had totally forgotten what it’s like to have those “first time” nervous tensions swarm over me. You would think at my age and after all I have gone through in my life that these would have dissipated by now.

However, getting ready for YogaHub’s first Teleseminar Series was not – I repeat – not easy on my mind, body, or spirit. I was rattled for several days. I felt myself going through all sorts of emotions and feeling physically nauseated. And my spirit…well, where on earth was it? (more…)

Okay, do you remember one of my previous blogs about social networking?

I couldn’t believe that I didn’t know what to do in MyYogaHub. I didn’t know how to use it even though it was a tool we had built for the community.

I was frazzled!

I was petrified! (more…)

I had such a good laugh out loud today as I was perusing through our new upgraded YogaHub Site. This site has been my vision for so many years and we have the most incredible team of individuals striving for its success.

Well, my goodness! Did I ever, ever feel totally embarrassed!

Would you believe that I did not even know how to make friends in MyYogaHub social networking space?! (more…)

Do you own a yoga studio? If so, how would you feel if you were told you’d have to start charging a sales tax? Yes, that’s right – the tax man cometh!

Charging their clients a sales tax is the dilemma that yoga studios and teachers in the state of Washington are currently facing. Recently, the Department of Revenue in that state notified the owners of yoga studios that they would have to start charging a sales tax. Why? Because it was decided that yoga is considered a form of exercise and therefore, under the law, it is subject to sales tax. (more…)

Who doesn’t want a local yoga studio in their neighborhood? Easy to get to and close to other daily conveniences, a local studio could also encourage more people to experience the benefits of yoga. But what happens when a yoga studio is not considered an acceptable retail service under the township’s code?

That is exactly what the Township Committee of the Cranford, New Jersey community has been debating over the past few weeks. (more…)

It’s easy to take mindless action, to keep moving the wheel forward. However, this tendency for motion serves us best when it is tempered with reflection. (more…)