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4 Yoga Poses For Chronic Pain

4 Yoga Poses For Chronic Pain
Yoga can help relieve symptoms of chronic pain and Fibromyalgia. But doing yoga that is too strenuous can make your pain worse! Finding yoga poses for chronic pain that help you rather than harm you can help you improve your wellbeing. In addition to pain, people living with chronic pain usually also suffer from poor…
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Yoga For Fibromyalgia: Research Shows Yoga Can Help Manage Symptoms

Yoga For Fibromyalgia: Research Shows Yoga Can Help Manage Symptoms
One of the biggest frustrations of living with an illness like Fibromyalgia is that so little is known about how to manage and treat the disease. One of my frustrations as a yoga instructor is the lack of research that goes into using yoga therapeutically. Especially when there is so much anecdotal evidence that yoga…
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5 Free Yoga Videos To Improve Your Daily Practice

5 Free Yoga Videos To Improve Your Daily Practice
I am on a mission this month- to practice yoga daily. Instead of doing 3-4 longer sessions in a week, I am experimenting with practicing every single day. Even if it is only for 10 minutes at a time. Aiming to do a longer yoga sequence once every week or two is a great goal.…
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What Is Mindful Yoga?

What Is Mindful Yoga?
Exercising with a chronic illness is a battlefield, but I think mindful yoga can help. You know exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle. But you also know it could make things worse. Like biking 60km without training and becoming bedridden for the next week worse (I maybe did this). So how can you reap…
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New Study Finds That Yoga Has Lasting, Positive Effect On Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

New Study Finds That Yoga Has Lasting, Positive Effect On Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
At the end of last year, researchers at Kyushu University studied the effects of yoga for chronic fatigue syndrome. Patients who participated in the study had fatigue that lasted more than 6 months and did not respond to conventional medical treatment(CBT, GET, Medication, etc.). When researchers added yoga therapy to conventional treatments, patients reported having…
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5 Yoga Poses For Fibromyalgia (number 3 has the best name :p)

5 Yoga Poses For Fibromyalgia (number 3 has the best name :p)
Fibromyalgia patients are a diverse group of firecrackers. Like many chronic illnesses, people living with Fibro show a variety of different symptoms and responses to treatment. Yet, they all have on thing in common: A determination to reduce their pain and live their lives fully. Studies show that yoga and mindfulness meditation can help reduce…
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Why We Struggle To Sleep And How To Get More Snooze Time

Sleep helps us heal. We all know that. Rest is prescribed for any ailment from a cold to cancer. But even for healthy people, getting a crap night’s sleep is never fun. Just this morning I snapped at my flatmate, neglected to clean up my dishes, and put off writing this blog post for as…
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5 Reasons Why I do Yoga When I’m Well

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on the Pillow Fort blog about Why I Do Yoga For Chronic Illness. If you've read any of my other blog posts, you know that I think yoga for chronic illness is a pretty awesome idea for unlocking your potential and living better with illness. But what about…
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My 5 Favourite Restorative Yoga Poses

My students often ask me how often I practice yoga. When I say I aim for 5-6 days a week I often see a look of fear on their faces. Do you really need to dedicate time each day to see the benefits of a yoga practice? To answer that questions depends on how you…
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Yoga for Chronic Illness: A Review From The Pillow Fort

It feels OM so good living your dreams :). My first yoga course finished up last month (for anyone that missed my reflections you can read about it here). The course was something I was planning for a long time, and seeing my spoonie students progress and enjoy the practice made the gruelling days of…
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