Balance Pose of the Week Standing Vinyasa

There are two parts this week to the Weekly Balance Pose Practice.

Part 1: Reclined Vinyasa

Part 2: Standing Vinyasa


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Tips For Finding Medication To Balance Thyroid Naturally

By Lelia Hall

When the level of your hormones are not in the normal state, then you might start having problems with your body. These hormones are very crucial in affecting the way our bodies operate. For the body to be maintained in a healthy state, these hormones must be in a required state. Therefore, you need to know the tips for finding medications to balance thyroid naturally.

The treatments and the medicines made to tackle this disproportion are many. However, it is good that you understand that not all of the methods can eliminate this problem. Some are ineffective and after using them, no change is seen. It is prudent to seek for the referrals of some perfect methods and natural medicines that might be of assistance. This will eliminate those ineffective medicines and methods.

The mistakes that various people make is engaging in certain approaches and taking certain medicines without the aid of an expert. Understand that medications and techniques are prescribed to address a particular challenge depending on its magnitude. Therefore, without that knowledge, you can take the wrong medication, which will definitely be ineffective. Seek professional assistance.

It is also vital that you clear vegetable oils and margarine from your shelves in order to create a conducive environment for the body to respond as expected. Vegetable oils are the main cause of this problem. Unless they are removed from your diet, then the challenge will continue. Therefore, you should start thinking of using natural fats like animal fat and olive oil. Unfortunately, natural oils are also expensive.

You will note that many people that have this problem have not adapted to doing exercises in their lifestyle. Regular exercises is healthy in increasing your body fitness and in regulating your hormones. Therefore, if you do not exercise, it is better that you start thinking about engaging in it. Exercising can be hard to start but when you find a partner to offer moral support, it becomes easier.

The function of water in the body includes eliminating too much waste that can be regarded as toxins. Therefore, without the presence of sufficient water in the body system, bringing down the levels of extra hormones released can be quite hard. Therefore, constantly hydrate your body by drinking lots of water. This will boast your chances of getting better faster.

In many cases, the people who suffer from this challenge are responsible for causing it. This is because some of them ingest certain medicines to curb one problem but in the process, it alters the hormonal changes of the body. When such medicines are consumed for a long duration of time, then hormonal discrepancy in that person becomes inevitable.

Apart from avoiding the foods that can increase, the challenges there are certain foods that you can consume and they will boast the medication process. Therefore, you should contemplate on adding carrots to your diet. Carrots have a fiber that has the ability of detoxing excess estrogen in the body. Therefore, if estrogen is excess in the body, you can suppress it by eating carrots.

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News on Balance Falling and Yoga

by Baxter

In preparation for my Yoga U Online webinar Yoga for Core Integrity and Balance that started last Tuesday and finishes this Thursday, December 18, 2014, I was reading two papers that shed some interesting light on why we should to be concerned about balance and how to improve it. The first was a 2008 study Shifting the focus in fracture prevention from osteoporosis to falls that appeared in the British Medical Journal, and the second was a 2008 paper "Integrated Balance Training" by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Since balance is one of our four essential skills of Yoga for Healthy Aging, I was excited to read about these takes on how to best improve balance. And as I was hiking around New Zealand last week and doing some yoga outdoors, some of these ideas started to make more sense to me.

Before I get to some of the unique recommendations for balance training from the NASM article, I want to share some other fascinating assertions the first group of researchers bring up for why balance training is so important as we age. The authors of the study on falling note this blockbuster fact:

“Numerous studies show that among older people falling, not osteoporosis, is the strongest risk factor for fracture.”

They also make a very interesting and important point:

“When a person falls, the type and severity of the fall (including fall height, energy, and direction) largely determine whether a fracture occurs.”

They point out that statistically a person whose dexascan numbers are higher by 1 Standard Deviation increases the chance of a fracture by about two times normal, whereas:

“By contrast, a sideways fall increases the risk of hip fracture three to five times, and when such a fall causes an impact to the greater trochanter of the proximal femur, hip fracture risk is raised about 30 times. These fall induced fracture risks are “strong” associations—comparable to those between smoking and lung cancer.”

The study concluded:

• "Falling, not osteoporosis, is the strongest single risk factor for fractures in elderly people
• Bone mineral density is a poor predictor of an individual’s fracture risk
• Drug treatment is expensive and will not prevent most fractures in elderly people
• Randomized controlled trials show that falls in older people can be reduced by up to 50% with balance training"

Finally, they recommend that the medical community—and family doctors in particular—should "shift the focus in fracture prevention by systematically assessing risk of falling and providing appropriate interventions to reduce the risk of falling." For those of us who practice or teach yoga, we can take this as encouragement to be mindful of our relative balance abilities as we practice yoga and look for ways to use our asana practice to maintain and improve our balance.

This is where the second paper by the NASM comes in. It was specifically looking at providing a better understanding of the complexities of what goes into having good balance as well as how to train individuals to improve balance. There were two intriguing ideas presented that I want to share with you today.

The first has to do with a special approach to balance. According to the authors of this paper, “the main goal of balance training is to continually increase your client’s awareness of his or her balance threshold or limits of stability by creating controlled instability.” To give you a better idea of what they mean, they go on to define “balance threshold” as follows:

“Integrated (balance) training should constantly stress an individual’s limits of stability (balance threshold). An individual’s limits of stability are the distance outside of his or her base of support he or she can go without losing control of the center of gravity.”

This idea can apply to static poses as well as dynamic movements in your yoga practice. For yoga practitioners, this means that instead of merely doing our regular routine balance poses and dynamic sequences each day or week, we should consider challenging ourselves or our students by adding in “controlled instability.” Of course, you could try practicing your balance poses outside on uneven ground, as I did in New Zealand. That definitely adds some controlled instability!

But even in the yoga room, you can use your creativity to add some instability into your practice. An example of this might be to move from doing Tree pose (Vrksasana) on the floor to trying it while standing on a wooden block on the lowest height, gradually working towards a longer hold of the pose there. So, the first time I try it, I might shoot for 30 seconds on each side. Once that seems stable and easy, perhaps after several days or a week of practice, I’d advance to 60 seconds. Once I’ve mastered that variable, I might then try the same thing on a slightly softer foam block. From there, I might add in the challenge of holding an additional block between my hands and dynamically moving it not just up and overhead as is sometimes more traditionally done, but taking over to the right side (not side bending, just angling the arms up and to the right), then the left side, then down and to the right and down and to the left while maintaining balance in Tree. As this example demonstrates, a certain amount of creativity will be involved in providing yourself with more challenges over time. Keep in mind that even small changes in the way you do your “normal” poses can add this element of “controlled instability” into your practice.

As for dynamic sequencing, you might change up a Sun Salutation by adding in a pose you don’t normally do while flowing in and out of the usual sequence, such as, from transition from Lunge pose into Standing Splits (Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana) for a breath or two before stepping back to Lunge and onto Downward Dog and all the rest. When that new sequence gets easy to do in the flow, add in another pose that challenges your balance a bit more, and so on and so forth. Again, be creative and systematic in how you do this and have some fun with it!

Improving balance not only can reduce your chances of falling and therefore reduces your chance of a fractured bone, but it has also been shown to reduce the chances of other sorts of injuries as well, such as anterior cruciate ligament tears in the knees and ankle sprains. So start playing around with these ideas in your home practice or for the teachers out there, let these ideas add some more variety and creativity to your sequencing of classes. And as always, we love to hear what you discover along the way! Happy, balanced trails!

And for those want more details on these ideas, check out my Yoga U Online webinar. Part 2 is live this Thursday, December 18th, at 5:30PST, 8:30EST.  Even if you missed Part 1 last week, it is now archived and if you sign up for the program (see yogauonline.com), you can listen and watch either one anytime you want. The package also includes a one-hour practice video on Core Integrity and Balance. The perfect holiday gift for yourself!

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What It Means To Have Guidance To A Better Work Life Balance

By Lisa McDonald

If a person chooses to really concentrate on just one portion of living, some other things tend to be ignored or taken for granted. It is all about knowing how systems work, a natural process that you learn about over and over again in school. You know you cannot accomplish, say, a strict diet if you do not have enough time or material resource for it.

There is a need today to be truly motivated, a factor in complete engagement that is studied continuously by companies. But this is something integral to our nature, and what is required in guidance to a better work life balance Stratford. The way to do this is to first see how everything is related in your life and how they work together.

The overview is important, because it leads to a deeper understanding of your priorities and needs. Some you may not have even thought about, and this is a concern that should be addressed first before embarking on the balancing act. Yes, it is literally an act, done regularly, constantly analyzed and adjusted, and perfected through a good period of practice.

It has the purpose of helping you make a program that is relatable to your life. Since personal needs vary for individuals, the steps to follow here are general and can be accomplished easily. It also requires you to be objective and able to handle your lie well enough as you follow the steps.

The first step has been mentioned, which is a review of everything you consider important in life. The second step is to see which are the focal points in these things, and to integrate them in such a way that you have good control over a process organic to the way you live. There are so much lifestyles items that have been dredged up for marketing in the internet and social media, and you can keep track of them but not actually use them all.

All you actually need is good judgment in choosing what can and what cannot work. Your focus points might be living status, income, family and kids, business or relationships. Add perhaps your work or the field you are expert in, but this is something to be put in a box and kept there since its elements might not be good to use in daily living.

For some people, jobs that are vocations or ways of life demands that the work you do be always relevant, especially where daily life is concerned. The priesthood is one, another is the job of the poet, and these things are often reliant on long training and strong moral compass points. The following and last step is where motivation comes in, something requiring hard objectivity.

This step involves real objectivity, but you can be one of the more fortunate ones who are employed in a job that really interests you. It might be possible that you were always interested in it, and your skills match the interest. When and if reality bites, like when you see how you somehow do not fit the job and the related culture, you should study other alternatives.

Motivation is all about being happy and satisfied. Fun is a temporary thing, but happiness is a lasting value that you recreate each and every day. When you are happy, it means that all your focal points are being addressed well and that your constant review of your life points to nothing amiss. This is only the beginning though, because theory can only do so much.

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