Chronic pain is a condition that affects tens of millions of Americans and countless others around the world. Many people living with chronic pain are left with little hope when medical treatments cease to bring relief. Loolwa Khazzoom and Anna Tostrup Worsley are two outspoken women suffering from chronic pain who were among those left [...]
Deborah Donohue: How does Reconnective Healing differs from the other healing modalities? Reconnective Healing Practitioner Kelly Woodruff: The first and most important, is that unlike other healing modalities, the Reconnective Healing practitioner does not send energy. What we do with Reconnective Healing is to access this new larger broader bandwidth of healing frequencies, not just [...]
When I started coming to Yoga Works in 1993, I’d already been practicing Yoga for close to ten years, but as an athletic pursuit thrust upon me by my hippie high school teachers. I could do most the poses with ease, but because of this ease, my practice required very little consciousness. So it was [...]
Through the art of listening, we learn to attune to the sensations and perceptions that arise in the body and mind. In the postures – the asanas – this listening involves observing the pulsation of blood and nerve as the flow of blood and the impulses of the nervous system travel through the body. [...]
Interpreter Of The Guru Gita, Artist, Teacher Through evocative words and onscreen adventures, and an intersection of mainstream pop culture and ancient spirituality, Eat, Pray, Love introduced millions to ashrams in India, the practice of meditation and to the seemingly esoteric yet powerful and purifying selection of Sanskrit verses known as the Guru [...]
Visual challenges are so common they are hardly considered abnormal. Whether we are discussing life-long challenges or the need for reading glasses after the age of 45, few people escape this life without a need for visual support. Ayurveda for clear vision--the sadhana or regular routines to support eyesight--offers powerful practices. Normal healthy vision [...]
Dr. Tejinder Sodhi Question: My Chow/Sheltie mix has early onset hip dysplasia (he’s only three years old and developing a limp). We walk regularly, he eats very high quality food (organic and raw, no fillers) and has daily supplements. Can you recommend anything additional we can be doing to help suspend or reverse the [...]
Yoga offers guidelines along the path to increase healthy body awareness, intuitive eating, nutritional wisdom and food consciousness. We face a number of modern challenges in how we relate to food, health and our ability to nourish ourselves: population-wide increases in obesity and degenerative disease, increased amounts of processed food and reduced access to many [...]
California Law, Ayurveda and Complementary and Alternative Health The past few decades have seen an expansion in the practice of Ayurveda in California, yet the full practice and potential of this comprehensive medical system is not currently available in the current legal climate. Native to India, Ayurveda is a medical form developed during the Vedic [...]
CorePower Yoga in Sherman Oaks Trevor Tice, CEO and founder of CorePower Yoga started the first of these studios in Denver, Colorado, in 2002. Sherman Oaks welcomes COREPOWER YOGA to Los Angeles; other California CorePower studios are in Orange County and San Diego. The studio features heated and non-heated vinyasa classes and the schedule includes [...]