Ayurveda Defines Three Root Causes of Disease
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Category: Yoga for Healing Injuries
Breathing is for Living
This comment seems almost redundant. In fact, how could we live if we were not breathing? And at the same time, it is a fact that we don’t always pay attention to this life-giving mechanism on which we are so dependent.
I have spoken about the vital link that we have with our breath, and with our breathing before. It seems appropriate to revisit it here now.
Every day, I talk with...Continue Reading: Breathing is for Living
IN GRATITUBE: Surgery and Superheroes
Calculating the rate of bladder filling and hours before surgery, it was painfully obvious I would have to catheterize myself and penetrate the Three Gorges of Hell (see Act Three), hopefully, for the last time in this life time. I awoke early. Mission accomplished.
Trying to remain in a very positive mental state,I crossed the Hospital threshold at 0500 hours.
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IN GRATITUBE: A Nightmare Week
IN GRATITUBE: A NIGHTMARE WEEK
Act three:
Time, in my mind, was moving at a different rate than real time. The reality of imminent surgery was circulating in my brain cells. Would it happen in hours or days?
The Doctor held an anatomical model of the entire exposed male genitalia in front of my eyes. While focusing on the plastic model and relating it to my own anatomy, I learned that a green...Continue Reading: IN GRATITUBE: A Nightmare Week
Magical Medical Tour: IN GRATITUBE
Act one: Signs and Symptoms
I was absorbing the beautiful light of a mid-May dusk when my right kidney decided to gift me with a nugget made of calcium oxalate (a chemical compound that forms needle-shaped crystals and is a major part of human kidney stones). I was grateful that the diameter of the tube (Right URETER) from my right kidney to my urinary bladder was larger than the diameter...Continue Reading: Magical Medical Tour: IN GRATITUBE
Getting Back to Yoga Again
It’s been an interesting journey for me these past few months. I had been wanting to return to my daily yoga practice with my partner and whoever else was interested in joining me. I used to have such a wonderful personal practice that was so inspiring and energizing, so to suddenly not have it was difficult. (more…)Continue Reading: Getting Back to Yoga Again
Body Talk – Are you listening?
Did you know that our bodies actually try to communicate with us? We body workers call it Body Wisdom.
Well, I have to tell you, after the stress of these past few months when I’ve had to focus on work (sitting in front of a computer) - not just for YogaHub but for other businesses as well - my body is not happy with me. Continue Reading: Body Talk – Are you listening?
Okay, so I’ve been living with this cracked rib for a few weeks now and it’s really annoying me.
I miss being able to do basic, everyday things - I even miss doing housework, so that should tell you something about how stir crazy I’m going!
But what I miss most of all is practicing my yoga. Just when I’d established a routine at home and was enjoying it, this had to happen (excuse me while...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit one of my many cousins just across the border. Her 18-year-old son was there - for some unfathomable reason, I’ve always been a favourite of his (maybe it’s an “absence makes the heart grow fonder” sort of thing). When he saw me, he picked me up in a bear hug and swung me around - did I mention that he’s 6’2” and plays rugby?
I heard...
I have a pain in the neck. No, no, you didn’t read that right – I said I have a pain in the neck, not I am a pain in the neck!
I’m pretty sure it stems from my bad posture when I’m sitting at my desk. Oh sure, when I first sit down, I make an effort to keep my spine straight and my shoulders back. However, once I dig in and start focusing...