Dharma Yoga Therapy

Social media is full of “First-Aid Yoga,” quick silver-bullet practices that promise all sorts of benefits. But real change is hard—it takes time, practice, energy, and commitment to shift our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and habits.
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That's where yoga therapy comes in! Head to this week's yogatherapy.health blog post to learn more with C-IAYT Kristine Kaoverii Weber:

https://yogatherapy.health/2025/01/23/first-aid-yoga-is-no-band-aid/

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Would you trust bodywork practitioners who aren't licensed or certified to work on you? If so, then you'd wouldn't mind if a yoga teacher or yoga therapist isn't certified either. But if you care - You can find out at www.iayt.org or www.yogaalliance.org - Being certified requires completion of continuing education every 3 years. Stay safe on the mat!

Many Paths, One Yoga Alliance | Yoga Alliance Yoga Alliance® is the largest nonprofit association representing the yoga community. Our mission is to promote and support the integrity and diversity of the teaching of yoga.

Medical Meditation? Clinical Yoga? Alternative Therapies Go Mainstream. More than one-third of American adults now supplement or substitute mainstream medical care with treatments long considered alternative.

Happy Holy-Days – may your gift always be the present. 🎁

May your holidays and the turnings of the seasons bring new light, great love, wisdom, and understanding into your life, to all you touch, and across this beautiful blue-green globe. 🌍

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Good info on Y12SR Yoga and the Twelve Steps of Recovery

#14Days: Yoga for relapse prevention Nikki Myers, founder of Yoga of 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR), explains how yoga helped her recovery and may help prevent relapse

"The point of asana is to practice, and to teach our students to practice, aligned stretching and relaxation.

This way of practicing reveals our hidden resistance.

This awareness of our of physical and mental resistance creates a deep sense of focus.

This is a focus on sensation, and sensation always brings us into the Present moment.

The whole point of yoga is to live in the Present with an open heart.

The point of yoga is not just to become more and more flexible." -JHL

I'm a firm believer in Dr. Ornish's Lifestyle program and the importance of proper nutrition for health!

Food for thought: Annual symposium highlights nutrition as key ingredient in patient care The 2023 Food as Medicine Update, recently hosted by the University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto, drew 300 health-care professionals, researchers and learners interested in the pivotal role of nutrition in patient care.

Help patients make, maintain lifestyle changes by asking ‘why?’ In this interview, Dean Ornish, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, says asking patients why they want to live longer can help fill their lives with meaning. “If you can get somebody to really tune into what really brings meaning....