Today Jill and Dana and I watched and followed Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors, from Esther Myers Yoga. We don't normally do this in our Friday yoga practice; in fact we have never done it. But I have had two separate private restorative lessons with women dealing with breast cancer, one past the therapy and… Continue reading Esther Myers DVD for breast cancer
Category: hard stuff
Self-instruction through photos
Yikes! I asked my husband to take some photos of me doing yoga, and it was very instructive. I know perfectly well how stiff I am, but I don't really ever get to see it. I just want to reach right into these photos and push on my body to get it into better alignment!… Continue reading Self-instruction through photos
Benchmarks
Lately I've been very pleased to see how much better I am. This time last year I was really a mess. I couldn't bend my joints very well, all my yoga was pretty much just lying down, and I was exhausted. No gardening. I avoided the stairs. Anything that put weight on my joints was… Continue reading Benchmarks
Addressing a difficult pose
I was rooting around in my old posts for this blog and found one I saved as a draft in January and then forgot to post. So here it is. At the end of class yesterday a couple of other people doing YoMo and I talked about how it's going. (This was just what I… Continue reading Addressing a difficult pose
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