Garden Vinayasa

Here is an example of how you might work down a row:

1. Standing at the beginning of the row, press your feet down into the earth. As you inhale, lift your arms out to the sides and spread and reach your fingers while you exhale. As you inhale again, reach your arms up over your [...]

Garden Yoga

by Sandra Helpsmeet

If you are reading this article, then you are also probably itching to get out in the garden, if you aren’t out there right now. For me it is one of the highlights of the year to begin to work the soil again. It can also be a difficult time for one’s body, [...]

Can Yoga Help With Pain?

by Sandra Helpsmeet

Many of the students that I work with in classes, and even more so in private lessons, come to yoga wanting to know if it will help with their pain. Sometimes their pain has a specific origin, a condition or injury. In this case, understanding that condition will guide the yoga that may [...]

5 Tips for Creating a Tradition of Exercise

Tis the season to practice traditions and develop new ones. It’s easy to get caught up in seasonal festivities and let the tradition of exercise fall by the wayside. These five tips can help you stay motivated to work out – making them part of your normal daily routines can be a very healthy habit!
1. [...]

Stretch Out the Morning

art by Sally Mae Meyer
Spending more than a third of our lives in bed means we should make the best of each night, right? However, if you fall asleep in the wrong position, back and neck pain as well as numbness in your limbs can be your wake up call, which is not cool.
“Sleep is [...]

Running with Sole

by Zach Ashby
I saw her out of the corner of my eye and knew she was going to stop, just like I sometimes know a car is about to cut me off on the interstate. The important difference in this case was that she was driving a golf cart as part of her job as [...]

A Pain in the Girdle

by Dr. Emily Smith
My first experience with Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) was 10 years ago after my sister gave birth to her first child. It was a natural birth at a birthing center and my niece was 8.12 lbs. My sister labored in all sorts of positions and for delivery was seated in a corner [...]

Knowledge of the Spine

by Heather Rothbauer-Wanish
For many people, chiropractic medicine means seeing someone when we have back issues or when another doctor refers us to a chiropractor. However, the profession of chiropractic has been around for many years. Although it may be experiencing a surge in knowledge and popularity, the relationship between health and the condition of the [...]

Consider Chiropractics: You Just Never Know

You Just Never Know …
So it’s mid March, I have that chest cold that has been going around. I have gone from scratchy throat, to no voice, to squeaky voice with horrible cough, to more mucus then anyone cares to deal with.  So while reading to my 4 year old, I go to get up [...]

Run Yourself (and Those Kids) Healthy

I am so glad it’s finally feels like summer. While some days so far haven’t been as nice as I would have wanted them, at least it stopped snowing. If your family is like mine, you have a daily, or weekly routine you follow. Well with school out and kids running around the yard all [...]

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