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Healing and Preventing Chronic Back Pain

  Back pain is so common and can be so debilitating that I want to keep sharing approaches here. If you have any, please share as well!   Q: I have chronic lower back pain for 4 years and it's getting worse, to the point where I'm tempted to take…

Yoga for Healing

  Yoga working in health and healing depends on each one of us taking the lead in our own care. It's not a passive role.   We're not simply recipients of treatment from experts who know better. We are each in charge of an amazing array of healing powers. We…

What To Practice When You Practice Yoga

  Practice how you want to be. Practice being grateful for what you have. Practice being patient with yourself. Practice ease in your body. Practice ease in your mind. Practice mindful communication with others. Practice valuing yourself. Practice valuing others. Practice loving yourself. Practice loving others. Practice using your talents…

You Know You Best

  Let your body move left and right of other people's center, other people's ideas about correct. It's your body, you know you best.   Let your yoga move left and right of other people's ideas. It's your yoga, you know you best.   Let your life move beyond other…

Make Your Own Rules, Your Own Yoga, Your Own Life

  All these rules are just rules. People trying to make it about them - their guru, their way - rather than about you.   The thing is, you can always choose. You get to make everything there is out of everything you are. You are free.   We're all…