As we reach midlife, we are all launched into the same universal challenge: Facing the slow, inexorable age-related changes of the body.
How we write that story makes all the difference.
Do we use them as a vehicle for transformation, or, do we meet them with a growing sense of loss and defeat?
Become the Hero Of Your Own Story
How do we write the story of our life as we move beyond the years of child-rearing and career building?
How can we work with the body to maximize the benefits of yoga to slow or halt common age-related changes?
How can we use midlife and beyond to chart our own, personal transformation to enrich our lives physically, mentally and spiritually?
Join Our Online Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine Study Group and become a member of a circle of fellow, like-minded yogis as we together explore the many wonderful opportunities for transformation and enrichment that meet us as we move towards midlife and beyond.
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Leading Yoga Teachers Like Judith Hanson Lasater, Baxter Bell & Leslie Howard!
Building Pelvic Floor Awareness in Goddess Pose
Yoga for Pelvic Pain: Releasing Pelvic Floor Tightness
Yoga for Myofascial Release: Soothe Neck Tension
Yoga for Myofascial Release: Release Tension in the Feet
How the Position of the Pelvis Affects Your Mobility
Why We Need Neuromuscular Retraining After Stretching
The Bija of Practice: How Do We Help Our Students Gain Functional Strength and Efficiency?
Judith Hanson Lasater: How to Develop Interoceptive Awareness in Yoga
Judith Hanson Lasater: How Body Position Changes Neurology
Stimulating Healthy Brain Aging: Take the Dynamic Drum Major Balance Challenge
Yoga for Healthy Brain Aging: Restful Inverted Pose with Equal Breath Practice
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Judith Hanson Lasater
The Seven Stages of Being: The Yoga of Inner Peace
Tias Little
Pratyahara and Yoga Asanas: The Significance of the Fifth Limb of Yoga
Giulia Pline
Mobility & Resistance for Creativity, Strength, and Resilience
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
Your Nervous System on Yoga: How Yoga Helps Balance Mind and Body
Ellen Saltonstall
Livestream series: Yoga for Bone Health, Strength, and Balance
Dr. Joe Vella
Beyond Stretching in Yoga: Increasing Flexibility with Integrated Mobility Training
Lynn Crimando
Beyond Stretching in Yoga: Increasing Flexibility with Integrated Mobility Training
The Yoga Prescription: Stay at the Forefront of
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With more than 115+ documented health benefits, there is no doubt that yoga is the ultimate Lifestyle Medicine.
But unfortunately, for most of us, practicing yoga as much as we would like to is an ongoing challenge.
As a member of Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine Study Program, you get access to a wealth of resources to support you in your yoga practice. All on your time and your schedule!
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As a founding member of the Program, you will also help us expand the services we can offer to the yoga community. We are working hard to add some exciting new services and programs to make high quality yoga training available online and better serve the continuing education needs of yoga teachers and yoga practitioners. You help make that possible.
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Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine: Check Out Our Full Schedule of Upcoming Courses Below
May: Pelvic Floor Health with Leslie Howard
Yoga for Alzheimer's Prevention with Dr. Baxter Bell
LIVE Yoga Wellness Course! Yoga Practices for Pelvic Floor Health
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
Join pelvic floor export Leslie Howard for a 7-yoga practice immersion with a focus on the pelvic floor. Learn how to stretch and release the pelvic floor, strengthen and stabilize the pelvic floor and reinforce the connection of the abdominal muscles.
Explore breath work that helps facilitate correct and healthy movement of the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms, and finally experience the pelvic floor from an energy body perspective with an inquiry-based practice of asana, breath, and mudra work.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Recorded Lecture and Video Practice
In a 2020 report, The Lancet Commission suggests that as many as 40% of Alzheimer’s cases can be prevented by addressing the risk factors that are modifiable.
Which are the steps we can take to reduce our risk of Alzheimer’s and improve cognitive functioning?
Join Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, author of Yoga for Healthy Aging, for an in-depth look at promising new research on Alzheimer’s prevention and the role yoga and other lifestyle factors can play in supporting our cognitive health moving forward.
Importantly, the earlier we start, the better. The physical changes that trigger Alzheimer’s begin 20 years or more before symptoms develop.
June: Leslie Howard, & Dr. Joe Vella & Lynn Crimando
LIVE Yoga Wellness Course! Yoga Practices for Pelvic Floor Health
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
Join us live online as pelvic floor export Leslie Howard continues her 7-yoga practice immersion with a focus on the pelvic floor. Learn how to stretch and release the pelvic floor, strengthen and stabilize the pelvic floor and reinforce the connection of the abdominal muscles.
Explore breath work that helps facilitate correct and healthy movement of the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms, and finally experience the pelvic floor from an energy body perspective with an inquiry-based practice of asana, breath, and mudra work.
Tuesday, June 20 & Thursday, June 22, 2023 -
8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
For most people, when we think of stretching in yoga we think of static stretches that test our ability to go "deeper."
These certainly have their use, but there is a lot more we can do than static stretches to maximize the benefits of our yoga practice.
In this groundbreaking course, Dr. Joe Vella and yoga therapist Lynn Crimando will share advanced stretching techniques that you can apply in your asanas practice to greatly enhance its benefits.
Learn effective and powerful mobility techniques to enhance joint balance and range of motion, improve soft tissue resilience and extensibility, maximize flexibility safely, and increase functional movement and neuromuscular efficiency.
July: Melina Meza & Dr. Emily Splichal
Yoga Wellness Practice Series! Fall in Love with Your Yoga Practice Again
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
Yoga has many wonderful benefits, but there is one essential key to enjoying them: Regular practice!
And let's face it, life gets busy and it's not always easy to get inspired enough to make it to your yoga mat.
There's a cure for that! Join us for a seven-week yoga series with creative and innovative yoga teacher and author Melina Meza and rediscover your love for yoga. Learn innovative approaches to common yoga poses and discover new ways to make them more accessible and exciting.
Thursday, July 27 & Monday, July 31, 2023 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Join renowned author and feet specialist Dr. Emily Splichal for this 3-part course in which we explore the latest research on how our feet, fascia, and functional movement are even more integrated than generally realized.
Learn how the plantar foot layers are a fascinating fascial pathway of interconnecting fascial lines, which are intended for optimal foot function and human performance.
Also, learn how to gauge and train fascial elasticity in the feet in order to move effectively transfer forces through the feet and increase movement integration and foot efficiency.
August: Melina Meza & Judith Hanson Lasater
Yoga Wellness Practice Series! Fall in Love with Your Yoga Practice Again!
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
Yoga has many wonderful benefits, but there is one essential key to enjoying them: Regular practice!
And let's face it, life gets busy and it's not always easy to get inspired enough to make it to your yoga mat.
There's a cure for that! Join us for a seven-session yoga series with creative and innovative yoga teacher and author Melina Meza and rediscover your love for yoga. Learn innovative approaches to common yoga poses and discover new ways to make them more accessible and exciting.
Monday, August 14 & Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific
Sometimes wish that you could stop the merry-go-round of our frenzied lifestyle and just take some time out to chill?
Join us for a new course with renowned yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater on The Seven Stages of Being: The Yoga of Inner Peace.
Learning how to take a "time out" to soothe and relax body and mind is not just a luxury, says Judith. It's a necessity.
In this course, learn Judith's signature approach to using yoga to snap out of our frantic go-go pace of life and restore greater inner peace and calm.
September: Ellen Saltonstall & Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
LIVE Yoga Wellness Course! The Bodymind Ballwork Method
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
In recent years, myofascial release techniques have become increasingly popular as a way to relieve stress and reduce chronic pain.
The body has much to tell us, but often we need to learn how to listen to the subtle sensations in which the body communicates. Myofascial release techniques sharpen one of our senses that is often called the sixth sense: interoception, the ability to recognize sensations and signals from inside the body.
In this exciting new Livestream series, join yoga therapist Ellen Saltonstall as she guides you through a rich and soothing yoga practice integrating the benefits of myofascial release.
Thursday, September 28, Monday, October 2 and Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific,
Plus Video Practice
Studies have shown that yoga offers a wide range of benefits in a surprisingly wide range of areas.
These include not just the enhancement of physical fitness but improvement in several areas relating to nervous system functioning, such as awareness and mindfulness, self-regulation of internal physiological and psychological states, as well as the development of a greater sense of life meaning and purpose.
In this 3-part course, renowned researcher and author Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will review some of the basic research on the underlying psychophysiology of yoga practices and its benefits for the brain, mind, and body.
October: Ellen Saltonstall, & Dr. Joe Vella & Lynn Crimando
LIVE Yoga Wellness Course! The Bodymind Ballwork Method
Join Us on Mondays 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific
In recent years, myofascial release techniques have become increasingly popular as a way to relieve stress and reduce chronic pain.
The body has much to tell us, but often we need to learn how to listen to the subtle sensations in which the body communicates. Myofascial release techniques sharpen one of our senses that is often called the sixth sense: interoception, the ability to recognize sensations and signals from inside the body.
In this exciting new Livestream series, join yoga therapist Ellen Saltonstall as she guides you through a rich and soothing yoga practice integrating the benefits of myofascial release.
Monday, October 23 & Thursday, October 26, 2023 -
8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
In this course, Dr. Joe Vella PT, DPT, CFMT, BS-EX and Lynn Crimando, MA, C-IAYT, CPT, NBHWC will offer a path toward better head placement, shoulder girdle stability, core tone, and postural integrity via enriched stretch techniques and integrated mobility techniques.
You will learn the theories behind integrated mobility and how we can use them to retrain our nervous systems how to incorporate some of the most effective techniques into any yoga practice. The result? Improved flexibility and functional movement.
Mobility techniques can offer a more dynamic and fluid path to improved joint mechanics, soft tissue resilience and extensibility, increased flexibility, improved functional movement and increased neuromuscular efficiency.
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