When fear takes over and controls our patients or clients, especially when they are suffering with a chronic condition, it can keep them away from the people they love and what they value the most. To help your patients or students, you can use the F.A.C.T.S- Foundational Attentional Centering Techniques. Now these strategies have the […]

Why do we feel threatened? Fear has been part of humans survival evolution. This feeling of fear and anxiety kept our ancestors alive. Hence we are vulnerable to being alarmed, manipulated, and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and “screen tigers.” Our reptilian brain is constantly at work and vulnerability to feeling threatened whether […]

“The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.” -TKV Desikachar I am always amazed when I look at some of the pictures and video’s of yoga postures featured in magazines, social sites and You Tube. […]

It was 1999 and I was studying sports medicine in the US. One fine morning my alarm went off and I found that I could not get out of bed. I had absolutely no strength in my abdominal muscles to raise myself into sitting position. I looked into the mirror and I had purple rashes […]

Having seen skeletons and spider webs hanging in front gardens and children dressed up as scary witches and devils, Halloween brings a sense of spookiness around and taps into one of our primal feelings – fear. It seems to be everywhere I look. I open my email and I receive message about spyware programs, I […]

As I mentioned in my last newsletter- Breath is THE most important tool for healing and cikitsa (therapy). The breath that we start to work with first is the Out-Breath. The out-breath on a physiological level activates the parasympathetic nervous system which is responsible for our body to become calm. It also releases the unwanted […]

Breath is THE most important tool for healing and cikitsa (therapy). Yoga is a a practice of involving not only the body but also the mind. This link is the BREATH. T.K.V Desikachar says Breath is the intelligence of the body and becomes our tool for prevention of many different ailments in many different ways. […]

Robert M. Sapolsky in his book entitled ‘Why don’t Zebras get Ulcers?’ explains, “if you are a Zebra running for your life, or the lion sprinting for your meal, your body’s physiological response mechanisms are superbly adapted for dealing with such short term physical emergencies. For the vast majority of beasts on this planet, stress […]

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake.” Jon Kabat-Zinn In my last blog I spoke about being mindful, and I stated, “mindfulness cannot be fully explained in words, as it needs to be experienced to be known.” Even the quotation above does […]

The last two weeks have been pretty tough as my girls are on school holidays but my work needed to continue, sending newsletters and seeing patients. Finding time to perform my daily yoga practice at home was proving to be nearly impossible. I sensed a loss of control over my situation, leading to stress and […]