Welcome to my new blog, What's On Your (Yoga) Mind? where I answer questions and curiosities about yoga, health and just about anything you would like to know more about!
I was recently at a music retreat with about 120 other adults between the ages of 15-85. Perhaps the most common topic that came up was the observation of diminishing ability to balance well with advancing age, and the increasing trips and falls that accompanied this change. I couldn’t help but wonder how yoga might impact this issue of worsening balance, increasing falls and fear of falling in my fellow musicians...
As someone who has been interested in how to support healing in those with both acute and chronic back pain- , for more than 35 years, first in my capacity as a family doctor in the 80s and 90s, and more recently as a yoga instructor, yoga therapist and medical acupuncturist- this topic of "Worst Habits and the Best Treatments for Back Pain: is of great interest to me!
