Yoga Practice For Chronic Pelvic Pain Can Be a Very Helpful Routine As stated in my last blog post, yoga can be so beneficial as a pain management tool due to its ability to modulate the sympathetic nervous system3,4 which plays a large role in chronic pain. The exact mechanism of how yoga helps with chronic […]
Dealing with too much tension? Try yoga to relieve your headache. Tension headaches can be caused by tension in the jaw, face, neck, shoulders, and back. Headaches caused by tight and restricted neck muscles can be helped by a seated neck release, which will stretch the scalene muscles on the neck. Sometimes headaches are caused […]
Simple Tips for Using Yoga for Sciatica Pain Sciatic nerve pain can be uncomfortable and may affect your quality of life and your activities. Flares in sciatic pain can be debilitating, and yoga for sciatica pain can help immensly. Often times the lower back and hips can contribute to sciatic pain. Try these yoga stretches […]
Simple Yoga Poses for Overcoming Foot Pain Everyone experiences sore feet at some point during our busy lives. Here are a few simple yoga poses that you can do almost anywhere to relieve the pain of sore feet during the busy holiday season – or anytime for that matter! Mountain Pose Become aware of your […]
Stressed from the holidays? Try some gentle yoga poses that can be done anywhere you have a little floor space for your yoga mat. —————— Cat/Cow Cat/Cow is a dynamic yoga movement that links breath with movement. It flows through two poses that warm up the spine, relax low back muscles, hip muscles, pelvic floor […]
Sitting hunched over a desk and computer for hours will lead to a stiff neck and shoulders, a sore lower back and tight hips. Throw in some office yoga to help refresh the body and mind, try these stretches at least 1x every 2 hours during your work day.
Gentle Yoga Basics for Easing Into Yoga Practice We Offer Gentle Yoga classes at the Montrose office. For those of you who may be curious about what Gentle Yoga is, here are some basics: What is gentle yoga? In general, gentle yoga is a way of practicing yoga in order to balance the body and […]
Learn All About Pelvic Organ Prolapse and the Role of Yoga in Recovery Yoga can help manage pelvic organ prolapse, but there are also some poses, movements and breathing methods that could make the condition worse. What is a Pelvic Organ Prolapse? “Prolapse” refers to a descending or drooping of organs. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) […]
Yoga Poses to Ease Pelvic Pain Also Effective for Endometriosis Pain 1 in 10 women have endometriosis and experience different forms of pain—pain with urination, pain with bowel movements, painful periods, pelvic pain, ovulation pain, painful sex, abdominal pain, and nerve pain. The Office on Women’s Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
