How to Improve Your Balance: Essential Strategies
What do you enjoy doing? Hiking? Skiing? Dancing? Playing pickleball? Or maybe you just want to be able to walk up and down the stairs without thinking twice about it. All these activities require...
View ArticleBalance test: How far can you reach?
Doctors perform balance assessments to evaluate a person’s overall health and functional ability. Balance tests are important for diagnosing vestibular or neurological issues and assessing a person’s...
View ArticleHow do you know which way is up? The innerworkings of your vestibular system
The structures of the vestibular system are very small and very delicate, yet crucially important to everything we do. Let’s take a quick look at the main parts of the vestibular apparatus so that we...
View ArticleChallenge your vestibular system with short multi-directional practice
Your vestibular system, working in tandem with your eyes, proprioception, and pressure sensors in your feet, constantly monitors your body’s position in space. To improve balance, we need to move the...
View ArticleHow many responsibilities do you carry in your life right now?
According to the viniyoga tradition, our aging process is represented by the movement of the sun throughout the day. Sunrise represents childhood, midday represents adult life, and sunset represents...
View ArticleA yogic perspective on what makes you uniquely YOU
The yoga tradition always recognized that human beings are not one-dimensional or merely physical entities, but rather, we are multi-faceted beings with a range of interconnected layers. The Panchamaya...
View ArticleYoga for the sunrise stage (adolescence and young adulthood)
As my teenage son starts lifting weights and getting more involved in sports, I can see the gradual changes in both his body and mindset. He’s slowly transitioning from a lanky, uncoordinated build...
View ArticleYoga for young adults: Strength and balanced body development
Traditionally, yoga practices for young adults were vinyasa-based and centered around a Sun Salutation. Sun Salutation sequence works particularly well for young adults because it warms up the body...
View ArticleWhat is “bad energy,” and why it shows up at midlife
In yoga, we often discuss energy and how to direct and harness it. For someone unfamiliar with yoga, this talk about energy may seem abstract or far-fetched. However, from a physiological perspective,...
View ArticleWhy do you feel the way you feel? Five main factors that impact your energy...
Metabolic diseases are on the rise, but even if you haven’t been diagnosed with obesity, type 2 diabetes, or metabolic syndrome, you might still be experiencing symptoms like fatigue, brain fog,...
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