If you’re a Highly Sensitive Person, yoga can be a wonderful way to calm your overstimulated nervous system. However, not all yoga classes are created equally in this regard. If you’re anything like me, you’ve walked away from a yoga class or two feeling exhausted and ‘jangly-nerved.’ (I’m looking at you, super-hot studios crammed wall-to-wall …
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5 Lifestyle Changes to Make for Perimenopause: Yoga + Exercise
Over the past several years as I’ve been doing research on (peri)menopause, I’ve come across several recommendations from experts saying that as you move through this life transition your workout routine needs to change. In particular, the general consensus is that the length of your workouts should get shorter. Yes, you heard that right! Less …
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Yin Yoga for Anxiety
As so many of us continue to feel some stress and anxiety with everything going on in the world lately, there is one style of yoga that really stands out for its soothing, calming qualities: Yin Yoga. (It is also a great style for my fellow HSPs and our sensitive nervous systems.) In my Yoga …
Yoga Dos + Don’ts for High Blood Pressure
In my Continuing Education Training over the past several years I have completed courses on yoga for high blood pressure, or hypertension (HTN), with two different doctors, Dr. Tim McCall and Dr. Baxter Bell. Both have spoken of the scientific data regarding the benefits of yoga on HTN, including its ability to train the nervous …
6 Breathing Techniques To Calm You Down + Cool You Off
Are you dealing with stress, anxiety, insomnia or (peri)menopause? Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? Are you just feeling ‘hot-headed’ lately and need to cool off? These 6 calming breathing techniques can be helpful for all of the above. Below is short explanation of each of them that I teach in my upcoming ‘Yoga Chill’ …
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Less Is More: 30-Minute Functional Flow Yoga!
Over the past few years as I’ve been doing research on yoga and aging, I’ve come across several recommendations from experts saying that as you get older your workout routine should change. In particular, the general consensus is that the length of your workouts should get shorter. Yes, you heard that right! Less exercise! The …
5 (Yogic) Ways to Shake off the Winter Blues
By the middle of February, we in Michigan have grown weary of the winter. The endless days of cold, snow, ice, wind and gray skies have given our moods, energy levels and immune systems a beating. Not to mention the fact that we are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic. While some of …
5 Yoga Poses for a Good Night’s Sleep
Updated June 2022: Join me for my yearly ‘Yoga Chill’ course this summer. We begin July 11, 2022! Insomnia is a condition many of us suffer from in our overly-stimulated, stressful society. Last week in my ‘Yoga Chill’ virtual+ course, I shared Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin sequences for Insomnia with my students, full of postures …
Work With Me: Yoga + Beyond
I am passionate about guiding people along their path toward a healthier, more conscious lifestyle. As the founder of The Yoga Room (twice voted Best Yoga Studio in Ann Arbor), and a Yoga and Wellness Educator with more than 20 years of experience, I love exploring the topics of yoga, self-care, plant-based nutrition, aging gracefully, …
My Top 10 Reads From Yoga Book Club
Our Yoga Book Club is meeting February 3 via Zoom to discuss Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. This was such an eye-opening book that really helped me better understand the issues going on in our country right now. Even if you can’t join us for our book club discussion, I strongly …
