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Red Lights, Green Lights and Happy Holidays!

Well, with the holidays and a very busy time just around the corner, I want to give you the gift of understanding how tension can develop in one’s body to help you prepare for and release the tension that this beautiful time of year can sometimes bring to one’s soma.

Green Lights and Red Lights of the holidays make me also think of three innate reflexes the body responds to stress with – Red Light Reflex, Green Light Reflex and the Trauma Reflex.  These reflexes can cause involuntary muscle tension (Sensory Motor Amnesia) when the brain can no longer access the voluntary control of the muscle to release the tension.

Red Light Reflex

So, you’ve been in the process of writing your to do list for the upcoming holidays.  So much to do…   [Read more…] about Red Lights, Green Lights and Happy Holidays!

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With Gratitude and Service

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that
the highest appreciation is
not to utter words,
but to live them.
– John F. Kennedy

When I was in my first yoga teacher training, it was never my intention to become a yoga teacher or a yoga therapist.  What I knew was Yoga Therapy had helped me to resolve my pain.  What I wanted to learn was how this had happened.

Well, that learning eventually involved teaching people like you… And, when I began sharing the learnings and witnessing the relief on faces and in bodies, I knew I had found my passion…  …providing a resource for someone who had been  living with pain to improve their wellbeing …

In Simon Sinek’s (inspiring speaker and author) words, “Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers, they would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.”  Wow!  How this resonates with me!!

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Red Lights, Green Lights and Happy Holidays!

Does it seem a little early for me to be saying “Happy Holidays”? Well, with the holidays and a very busy time of year approaching, I want to give you the early gift of understanding how tension can develop in one’s body and two simple Somatic movements to help you prepare for and release the tension that this beautiful time of year can sometimes bring to one’s body.

Green Lights and Red Lights of the holidays make me also think of three innate reflexes the body responds to stress with – Red Light Reflex, Green Light Reflex and the Trauma Reflex. These reflexes can cause involuntary muscle tension (Sensory Motor Amnesia) if the brain can no longer access the voluntary control of the muscle to release the tension. I will also share two Somatic movements to release muscle tension. [Read more…] about Red Lights, Green Lights and Happy Holidays!