Keiki To Yoga

全美瑜伽聯盟認證
95-HOURS RCYT CHILDRENS YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

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2023年 4-5月 週末假日班：

2023年 4月 29、30日 & 5月 1、6、7、13、14、27、28日
8:30 am – 6:30 pm

🐣超級早鳥 $ 1,2800 （至4月8日）
💓早鳥 $ 14, 800 （至4月19日）
☘️原價 $ 16,800

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報名及詳情請聯絡2366 9936或WhatsApp 9444 1550

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Another round of Yoga Therapy Teacher Training graduates! Warmest congratulations to all graduates for embarking on the Yoga Therapy journey in the future!

新一輪瑜伽理療導師培訓課程完結，恭喜所有畢業同學！

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全美瑜伽聯盟持續進修課程 YACEP
20-HRS WHEEL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (LEVEL I)
20小時 YACEP 瑜伽輪(一級)導師培訓
with Joyce Ho, E-RYT500, YACEP


課程將學習瑜伽輪的主要槪念，並認識瑜伽輪與身體之關係，以進行正確並有效的瑜伽輪練習。課程亦會深入探討不同的瑜伽輪體位法，並學習將不同的體位串連為一個完整及安全的瑜伽輪課堂，為各位準瑜伽輪導師建立信心去帶領趣味性與挑戰性兼備的瑜伽輪課堂。

週末課程:
2023年4月16+23日（週日）
9:00 am – 7:00 pm

課程大綱︰

• 認識瑜伽輪的歷史及理論
• 基礎解剖學
• 瑜伽輪體位法 (一級)練習
• 深入深討各瑜伽輪體位法
• 瑜伽輪拜日式
• 瑜伽輪與脊椎結構
• 瑜伽輪的安全考量
• 肩膊與基礎體位串連
• 前彎體位串連
• 後彎體位串連
• 扭轉體位串連
• 如何設計一個精彩的瑜伽輪課堂
• 教學練習


• 課程將以粵語主講，並附以中文為主丶引用英文名字的教學手冊
• 完成後學員將會獲頒 < 20小時全美瑜伽聯盟認證YACEP> 20小時 YACEP 瑜伽輪(一級)導師證書
• 此課可累積成為
• 秉承以往Flo yoga傳統，小班教學，名額有限
• 報名及詳情請聯絡/ WhatsApp 9444 1550
• Whatsapp LINK IN BIO💐



導師簡介:

Joyce Ho, E-RYT500, YACEP
Joyce老師2008年開始修練瑜伽，是一位高級資深瑜伽培訓導師，擁有12年教學經驗，並由 2016年起，依據瑜伽輪創始人的教學模式，教授瑜伽輪工作坊及恆常班。這個一級培訓中糅合了老師加多年的教學經驗， 有效地地把瑜伽輪的練習與教學知識分享給學員。

導師簡介
* E-RYT500美國瑜伽聯盟高級瑜伽導師
* 美國瑜伽聯盟RCYT 85小時孕前瑜伽導師
* 七聲頌砵音療師認證
* 瑜伽治療師導師
* 美國瑜伽聯盟YACEP瑜伽輪導師
* 空中瑜伽1+2級導師
* 美國瑜伽聯盟250小時瑜伽導師
* 美國瑜伽聯盟30小時孕前瑜伽導師
* 英國 Grounded Kids 瑜伽導師

全美瑜伽聯盟 95小時 NADA YOGA音流瑜伽導師培訓課程之：
15-HRS TUNING FORK: THE SCIENCE OF SACRED SOUND IN AYURVEDA
15 小時 YACEP 音叉及進階音流能量證書課程

這個15 小時音叉應用及進階音流課程，可以獨立報讀，也是95小時NADA YOGA培訓中的自選課程之一，亦可累積至 Flo Yoga Academy 課程， 有興趣的朋友不要錯過啦！


15 小時音叉應用及進階音流能量證書課程

週末課程:
2023年4 月 15日 (下午2:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
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4 月 16日 (9:00 am – 7:00 pm)

地點：上環 Flo Yoga Academy​

課程大綱：

認識音叉
• 音叉的歷史
• 音叉的構造
• 音叉的種類

氣場、身體層、脈輪解剖學
• 氣場︰生物場、等離子、光乙太
• 瑜伽哲學的五個身體層 (Kosha System)
• 進階脈輪解剖學

音叉的三大療癒原理
• 穿音 Sonopuncture
• 骨音 Osteophony
• 調音 Diaphony

音叉應用與阿育吠陀進階音頻理療
• 不同音叉組合的應用
o OTTO and OM
o 身體調音組合Body Tuners
o 脈輪組合
o 天使音叉Angel Tuners
• 阿育吠陀 Ayurvedic進階音頻理療

音叉理療手法
• 掃描及清理能量場
• 脈輪
• 能量點與身體痛症
• 脊椎健康
• 面部穴位

課程贈送 BioSonics OTTO + Body Tuners set 音叉共3枝 (價值 HK$ 1200)


課程以粵語主講，附以中文為主丶引用英文梵文名詞的教學手冊
完成培訓會獲發

此課程可累積入 和


Elvis Lam, E-RYT500, RCYT, YACEP
Elvis 老師先後跟隨香港、美國、法國及尼泊爾的音療老師學習西藏頌缽，更是尼泊爾音流瑜伽導師和印度Kundalini 瑜伽導師。Elvis老師 將傳統喜馬拉亞山脈的音流哲學，結合於西方音療理論，建立出一套適合城市人的音療手法及音流瑜伽系統。


秉承以往Flo yoga傳統 ◉ 小班教學 ◉ 名額有限 ◉ 報名及詳情請聯絡2366 9936 ◉ WhatsApp 9444 1550◉ Whatsapp LINK IN BIO

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好消息！老師正式加入我哋嘅Flo Yoga嘅團隊！同學們記得留意，唔好錯過！

We are happy to welcome Master Anjan to our teaching team! Friends can join his class every Monday and Saturday.

More exciting classes are coming soon, STAY TUNED!

My baby girl

see you tomorrow (Sunday) for a good cause!

終於又到有杜老師的星期日啦!
Woo-hoo!

Charity Zoom Yoga for 🖥

Class: Hatha All Levels with
Date: March 6 (Sun)
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

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Want to join our zoom class? 🤍
WhatsApp 98882400

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People now think that hatha yoga is doing asanas. In fact, they think it is yoga as exercise. That is how hatha yoga classes are marketed. But traditional hatha yoga is actually about controlling prana, our life force.

The practice of asanas should give us the ability to manage our prana. Then that asana practice can be called hatha yoga. This is not possible using physical movements alone. The key is to manage the breath.

Ancient hatha yoga texts like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Yoga Yajnavalkya consider asana as a stepping stone to pranayama. Only when we do effective pranayama, we can call our practice hatha yoga. Otherwise, the asana practice is only exercise or stretching.

Therefore, all serious yoga practitioners should learn to breathe well in asanas and start practicing pranayama regularly as soon as they are able. The lifelong practice of pranayama is the key to hatha yoga and it will also lead us to manage our mind through raja yoga.

✨ Learn in-depth, classical pranayama with the Mohans at: https://on.svastha.net/3bECgxI

Green shoots on a backdrop of faded brown bark. One tree has reached its end, but the journey of another is just beginning. Life is a wondrous cycle of renewal. Every ending is the beginning of something else. Every beginning must eventually find an end. When we accept this cycle, we find deep peace with the changes of our life.

✨ Online workshop series on Yoga & Emotions with the Mohans at on.svastha.net/3g3cWSR

全美瑜伽聯盟持續進修課程 YACEP
30-HRS SINGING BOWL MEDITATION AND SOUND BATH CERTIFICATION
30小時 YACEP頌缽聲療師證書課程
with Ann da Silva, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, RCYT, RPYT
 
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2021年11月課程日期、時間:
11月13丶14丶20日 (9:00 am – 6:00 pm)
11月21日 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm)
 
2022年2月課程日期、時間:
2月5丶6丶12日 (9:00 am – 6:00 pm)
2月13日 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm)
 
 
◉ 課程大鋼 ◉
o 認識頌缽
o 頌缽歷史和起源
o 傳統用途
o 如何挑選和保養頌缽
 
◉ 聲療和頌缽的療癒效益 ◉
o 音療是甚麽
o 腦電波與聲頻
o 頌缽的療癒效益
 
◉ 頌缽的類型 ◉
o 老頌缽/古董頌缽
o 一般頌缽
o 滿月頌缽
o 新月頌缽
 
◉ 聲療師的工具清單 ◉
 
◉ 基本頌缽用法 ◉
o 不同的握缽手勢
o 敲缽強度與對應不同人羣的應用
o 頌缽棒與磨缽棒的應用
o 頌缽棒與磨缽棒的使用練習
 
◉ 能量場 AURA 簡介
 
◉ 三脈七輪Nadia & Chakra簡介
 
◉ 頌缽應用技巧 ◉
o 自我療癒: 保護提升能量技巧
o 自我療癒: 靜心冥想丶放鬆、沈澱技巧
o 一對一療癒：能量場 aura凈化技巧
o 一對一療癒：七輪頌缽療癒技巧
o 一對一療癒：四缽平衡療癒技巧
o 一對一療癒：聲頻按摩治療
o 一對一療癒：脈輪平衡療法
o 一對一療程：頭痛和神經緊張療法
o 一對一療程：頸部和肩部療法
o 一對一療程：背痛療法
o 一對一療癒：孕期功效
o 團體療癒： Om 丶頌歌與頌缽療法
o 團體療癒：水能量治療
o 團體療癒：聲頻治療演奏會
o 一般用途：空間淨化
 
◉ 特殊頌缽技巧 ◉
o 吹缽技巧
o 手法
o 共震技巧
o 蓋缽技巧
 
◉ 特別頌缽療法 ◉
精油、草藥等
 
◉ 頌缽聲療推廣和商業考慮 ◉
o 聲療師的商業道德
o 報名及免責同意書
o 私人和小組課堂：費用和期限
o 聲療推廣
 
◉ 實習和案例分享
 
課程以粵語主講，附以中文為主丶引用英文名詞的教學手冊📖
完成培訓會獲發 30小時頌缽聲療師證書SINGING BOWL MEDITATION AND SOUND BATH CERTIFICATION 🔖
此課程可累積成為 🍀

秉承以往Flo yoga傳統 ◉ 小班教學 ◉ 名額有限 ◉ 報名及詳情請聯絡/ WhatsApp 9444 1550 ◉ Whatsapp LINK IN BIO💐

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Approximately 25 years ago, when I was assisting my father with clients, I once asked him, “How would you work with a person who comes to you with back pain?”

He gave me this simple algorithm/protocol:

1. Yoga is about decreasing duhkha (suffering), so don’t worsen the pain. Also, that is not safe.

2. Start in a comfortable position, usually resting—lying on the back for instance.

3. The person will often be more comfortable in flexion or extension, so try bending the knees and place the feet on the ground (mild flexion) or apanasana (more flexion) and stretching the legs (mild extension) or dvipadapitham (bridge pose, more extension). See where the person is more comfortable and start from there.

4. Gradually do movements that take the person in the opposite direction and in other axes (rotation and side bending) also.

5. Usually, emphasize strength more than stretch because people work their back too little and it is weak e.g. dvipadapitham (bridge), bhujangasana (cobra), shalabhasana (locust), raising an arm or leg in cakravakasana (hands and knees), and in partial ardha uttanasana (a partial half-forward fold, which is usually done with a long/neutral spine in Krishnamacharya’s teaching, so it makes your back muscles work).

6. Always move slowly with steady breathing and a calm mind—this goes without saying in Krishnamacharya’s approach to hatha yoga that my parents learned.

Many years after that, after I had finished my medical studies, I was at a yoga therapy conference where I noted that working with a problem like fatigue, whether it occurred on the background of heart disease, cancer, or multiple sclerosis was largely similar. The medical diagnosis matters less; the experience of the person matters more. As a yoga teacher/therapist, when we see someone fatigued, we help them find a way to rest—the skill of deep relaxation to facilitate recovery. The diagnosis only offers some pointers (e.g. in more advanced heart failure you may want to avoid elevating the legs) but it does not decide most of what you would do.

Returning to the issue of back pain, what can you do for a client with back pain as yoga therapist? You do not offer drugs or surgery or manual therapy. What you do is to teach self-care skills. No matter what style or ideology of yoga you belong to, these skills that the person practices are the final pathway through which the yoga takes effect.

Years ago, it became increasingly clear to me that teaching diagnosis-based yoga courses would lead a lot of overlap between them; the same skills would repeat with some modifications. Logically, a medical diagnosis-basis is a misleading and inefficient approach for a yoga therapist.

A medical label is often tied to measurements and parameters that we do not specifically influence through yoga. For instance, if you have a lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, does it matter whether it is L5-S1 or L4-L5? It certainly does if you’re a surgeon. If you’re a yoga therapist, it does not. You will not teach the person anything different based on that information. Perhaps half of middle-aged people will show cervical spine degenerative changes as a radiological finding on an MRI. It correlates poorly with pain. That label is radiological, not functional. That label should not influence your clinical choices as a yoga therapist; assess the function or skills of the person and make your decisions.

No matter what the cause of back pain is, what you can do ultimately as a yoga therapist is to teach them wellbeing skills: find a pain-free position, bring awareness to your back, start by moving in a safe range, massage the tissues and release them, gradually strengthen the muscles, bring the spine to neutral alignment, stabilize the spine, do some traction, repeat these skills and do them in your daily life too if possible. Send the back some positive thoughts and feelings and encourage confidence (you can do this for any part of your body in pain).

You will mostly teach similar skills regardless of what diagnosis the person receives—because this is what you can do in your scope of practice. What a diagnosis gives you, and only sometimes, is some extra suggestions: if the client has sciatica (nerve pain down the leg from sciatic nerve compression), do movements that centralize it (decrease the spread of the pain down the leg); usually extension (backward bending movements) help. The rest of the algorithm or skills-based protocol remains the same. Non-specific back pain, lumbar disc herniation, facet joint subluxation, facet joint arthritis, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis: all these labels give you some clues on modifying the emphasis on different skills you teach to the client, but much more depends on the experience of the client.

What if you don’t have back pain, and still practice these wellbeing skills for your low back? That is a good idea—you will develop a moat of resilience and the chance of your developing back pain significantly decreases. So, an approach based on wellbeing skills has equal relevance not just to therapy but also to prevention and enhancing wellbeing.

After many years, I have come the full circle—having satisfied myself that best wellbeing system is based on the wisdom of yoga skills, derived from the wisdom and intelligence of sages such as Bhagavan Patanjali and earlier, to more recent luminaries like Sri Krishnamacharya and Swami Hariharananda Aranya. That wisdom has been refined further and brought to me and so many other students of Svastha through my parents, from their deep yoga studies and practice, and their work benefiting thousands of students.

This leads me to the ultimate question that has challenged me for many years. What should we basea yoga diagnosis on? The best answer to that question is: a yoga diagnosis analyses the person based on the imbalances of function, which directs us to the skills we need to restore balance. Therefore, I have worked for years to present an expanded skills map that is also a comprehensive, effective, and accessible yoga diagnosis system.

Look at the expanded Svastha syllabus and ask yourself simply: what skills would make me feel more well? This is the main line of thinking of a yoga therapist: when you come across a modern diagnosis, ask, “What imbalances does this point to, and which skills will balance them?” Analyze the imbalances based on the map of skills. Following this approach, you can easily translate a modern medical diagnosis into a holistic skills diagnosis (i.e. a yoga or self-care diagnosis), and a yoga therapy protocol or practice can be easily and reliably devised and delivered.

The other key feature of the Svastha system here is that these skills are a universal map: they are not restricted to a style or tradition. All yoga schools and systems can and should use at least this set of skills to cover the person holistically. All yoga schools can agree with this map; the skills are based on the reality of the person, the science is key textbook medicine, and the traditional concepts are the foundational ones from major yoga and ayurveda sources.

This reaches another wonderful goal: to offer a neutral, deep, and reliable pathway to unite more yoga teachers and therapists. It also opens the door for more of the Svastha community to teach yoga therapy to students effectively, and to participate in delivering the Svastha yoga therapy program itself.

Much more is coming! 🙂 Thank you for reading. 🙏

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

https://www.svastha.net/svastha-yoga-therapy-syllabus/

System syllabus and topics as PDF:

https://www.svastha.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Svastha-Yoga-Therapy-Syllabus.pdf

The pleasures of the senses are fragmented reflections of the completeness that is within us. When the yogi experiences inner expansive presence, other pursuits fall away. As the Bhagavad Gita says, the essence of our being is superior to all other tastes the world may offer. If we absorb ourselves in that inner space of contentment, need decreases and freedom increases. Why chase the light of a lamp when the sun shines upon us? Why would a yogi chase sensory pleasures when the boundless light of contentment shines from within?

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

✨ Online workshop series on Yoga & Emotions with the Mohans at on.svastha.net/3g3cWSR

The Taittiriya Upanishad has a beautiful description of a ladder of happiness. Imagine you have youth, health, intelligence, and all the wealth in the world. We all think that this is the greatest happiness we can have. But this is just the first step in the ladder! The Upanishad goes on to paint a word picture of celestial realms of greater happiness that we may reach. Each higher rung increases our happiness a hundred-fold.

The highest rung is not in a world beyond us. The top of the ladder, the greatest happiness, belongs to the yogi who is complete within one’s self. That happiness is not sensory pleasure. It is boundless fulfillment from inner peace—the feeling that we need nothing but being.

Whether we take the narration of the Upanishad literally or as a metaphor, the psychology is undeniably sound. When we have contentment through inner calm, we experience completeness. No pleasure in the world can surpass that. That state of fulfillment is termed “ananda” in the Upanishads.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

✨ Online workshop series on Yoga & Emotions with the Mohans at on.svastha.net/3g3cWSR

Keiki To Yoga updated their business hours.

We are often troubled by feelings like desire, anger, and fear. These emotions underlie our inner disturbances. The Yoga Sutra calls these “kleshas.” It means that they cause suffering.

But the message of yoga is one of hope. We can change these feelings. If we balance them, step by step, we will find deep inner peace growing within us. This does not have to be difficult. It only requires the right skills and practice.

✨ Online workshop series on Yoga & Emotions with the Mohans at on.svastha.net/3g3cWSR

“The earth supports us from outside. We can also support ourselves from inside. Our deeper self is always with us - a presence in our heart. It is the inner source of contentment and clarity. When we connect with that presence, we are at peace with the ups and downs of life.” — Indra Mohan

✨ Live online course on Yoga & Emotions with the Mohans at on.svastha.net/3g3cWSR

Don’t compromise on getting a good night’s sleep! Sleep is not a state of unconsciousness. It is a time of many restorative functions firing up in the body and brain. It is vital for repair and growth processes that are difficult when the organism is awake and physically active.

The cycle of sleep is one of the oldest behaviors. Research shows that Insects, worms, and even hydras which don’t have brains go through cycles of activity and quiescence!

We are more susceptible to infections when we are sleep deprived. In the long run, lack of sleep is implicated in major health issues such as increased inflammation, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. Going without sleep harms the mind too.

We can assist the sleep rhythm in many ways: regularizing sleep times, managing the environment (light, temperature, sound), stress reduction practices, diet changes, adequate exercise, consuming caffeine more mindfully etc.

But, in this over-stimulated world, it is easy to be distracted by our lives. The most important first step toward better sleep is understanding the value of sleep and setting the intention to prioritize it!

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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Here’s an interesting article about how old sleep is (may have evolved half a billion years ago or even earlier!).
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-before-brains-hydras-are-living-proof-20210518/

When we make a mindful and knowledgeable choice to exercise in a way that leads us toward physical wellbeing and gradually increasing inner calm, that exercise is leading to yoga, and therefore that exercise is asana. To achieve this, we need to add mindful breathing, inner calmness, positive emotion, and clear thoughts to the exercises we do.

The role of asana in traditional hatha yoga path is principally to prepare for the deeper practice of bandhas and breath control. In the physical health dimension, to practice effective asana, we must cultivate the functional capacities we need: strength, stability, awareness, mobility, alignment, relaxation, agility. Asana that uses functional movement principles will lead to better wellbeing and is therefore a better foundation for the other practices of yoga. But do be sure to take a holistic view and look beyond the locomotor system too! 🙂

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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Modern psychology is a field of many diverse models and theories that describe the mind and its connections. There is no universally agreed-upon central goal or whole model. Yoga differs from that; it presents all frameworks and practices as part of a pathway that leads to a central goal—kaivalya, moksha, nirvana. That final state is common to everybody, it is universal. This approach is generally true of the other Eastern darshanas such as Vedanta and Buddhism too.

Self-improvement toward greater success and happiness (if done ethically, is more dharma and sukha) can be a milestone on your yoga path. It is closer to the goal of yoga than being unhappy and unmotivated. But, “living up to your potential,” is different for each individual, and is not the end goal of classical yoga. The ultimate goal, called moksha or kaivalya, is not different in nature when you experience it or I do. It is stillness, and by definition, it is the same experience for everyone. Only activity is variable, stillness is not.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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Our Grand Opening is happening this Saturday May 22, please join us for this lovely charity event!

We see a lot of bad news presented online because it generates attention. In reality, a lot of good is also happening around us. Humanity, altruism, solidarity, are all on display; so many people are doing what they can to help those in need. The never-ending cycles of news and politics obscure the reality that the world is not filled only with problems—it is also a good place filled with good people. For our own wellbeing and for society, let us also look to positive things as well.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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When my father, A. G. Mohan, was studying the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in the 1970s, his guru, Sri Krishnamacharya, criticized the text for stating that hatha yoga starts with asana. He said, “Yoga always starts with the yamas and niyamas.”

The first among the yamas is ahimsa: to do what we can to decrease suffering in the world, or at least not increase it. The Yoga Yajnavalkya extends the list of yamas and niyamas from the Yoga Sutra, including charity, compassion, tolerance and more.

Giving helps others, and when we give without ego, desire, or blindness it helps our inner wellbeing too. To give in a sattvic way, the Bhagavad Gita suggests that we watch out for these internal traps:

I give so that others know of it and praise me; it makes me look good and boosts my ego. (rajasic)

I give to people and organizations that I am biased toward, even if that may not be the best way to help others. I let my personal preferences cloud my judgment of the greater good. (tamasic)

I give to people or organizations that I will benefit from in return, through money, services, or in other ways. (rajasic).

I give with reluctance and complain about it afterward. (tamasic)

This said, giving is mostly for the good of the world. Inner reflections should not paralyze us or dissuade us from giving.

But giving is an opportunity for the giver too; we may as well give in the way that transforms us for the better. Giving with non-attachment, diligence, and inner pleasantness will cleanse our mind and increase our inner equanimity and positivity.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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It is more important to learn wellbeing and yoga skills at home than in a yoga studio or fitness center. Doing yoga with a group of people instructed by a teacher has become the norm. This learning model has grown dominant in the last few decades, because yoga has been promoted foremost as a fitness workout. When exercising, it is easier to motivate yourself by keeping up with others with continual instructions from a teacher.

But this is a suboptimal way to learn many well-being skills. The close physical presence of other people affects you; their mood and energy is contagious. That influence is temporary and fluctuates depending on who is there that day and how they feel. Such variation apart, the central drawback is this: the distraction and competition of keeping up with others interferes with your holistic progress.

Mindfulness, absorption, sensing your body, improving your breathing, repeating a mantra, changing your thoughts, quieting your senses, speaking with kindness in your everyday life, setting boundaries, and even learning to do asana differently by exploring for yourself—none of these happens because of the physical group in a yoga center. These are skills you cultivate for yourself, by yourself, with a teacher’s guidance—learning, reflecting, and practicing whenever possible, in your own space, in your own life.

Self-practice is the foundation of self-transformation. Used effectively, online yoga learning can be very helpful in guiding self-practice.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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Exercise and avoiding obesity, particularly visceral fat, is vital in recovering from many infectious diseases, particularly respiratory ones. You can double or triple your risk of hospitalization and mortality if you remain sedentary and pack on the pounds.

Calm your emotions. Bring positive thoughts to your mind. Take a minute to be present and mindful. Connect with others, at least virtually, however you can. It all matters much more than we think!

Don’t fight with your body to exercise or manage your weight; but this is as good a time as any to motivate yourself to make a start on these long term health goals.

You don’t need to be heroic in exercising. Even modest exercise brings measurable and significant benefits. Similarly, weight management is mainly about patience, relaxed persistence, appreciating healthful nourishment, and reframing the experience of lightness and hunger with kindness toward yourself. Never punish yourself or put yourself down in the pursuit of wellbeing.

Dr. Ganesh Mohan

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Now some data and links if you wish to dig into the role of exercise and weight management in COVID-19 outcomes:

• Compared to those who exercised 150 minutes or more every week patients with COVID-19 who were "consistently inactive" were 226% more likely to be hospitalized, 173% more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), and 149% more likely to die.

• Importantly, even people who could not realistically exercise 150 minutes or more per week still experienced significant benefits compared with people who said they exercised 10 minutes or less. Compared with people who reported exercising 11 to 149 minutes each week, the inactive group was 120% more likely to be hospitalized, 110% more likely to need critical care admission, and 132% more likely to die.”
Obesity is especially significant in younger populations. But being underweight or frail is risky too.

• The increase in the risk of hospitalization per BMI unit (above 23) for those aged 20-39 is 9%; for those aged 40-59, 8%.

• The increase in the risk of death per BMI unit (above 23) for those aged 20-39 is 17%; for those aged 40-59, 13%.

• 78% of those hospitalized for COVID in the US had a BMI > 25 according to the CDC.

LINKS
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210419/more-exercise-lowers-risk-of-severe-covid-19-study

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/07/bjsports-2021-104080

https://theconversation.com/severe-covid-in-young-people-can-mostly-be-explained-by-obesity-new-study-159072

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/obesity-is-a-strong-risk-factor-for-shortterm-mortality-and-adverse-outcomes-in-mexican-patients-with-covid19-a-national-observational-study/30A4E59D646FA3023AFA491999EF0F0D

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html