LifeForce Yoga Video Practice – Calming Version of Chakra Clearing Meditation with Amy Weintraub

Free video practice led by Amy Weintraub. Calming version of the LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation.
Free video practice led by Amy Weintraub. Calming version of the LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation.
I want to share something personal before I offer you a gift that I hope will be a window through pain for you, as it has been for me. Pain is a tough-love kind of teacher, and I have discovered that I am a slow learner. As many of you know, I had hip replacement…
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As researchers continue to study the benefits of yoga for mood disorders and serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, who is the this emerging evidence inviting to Yoga? Yes, people who suffer from these conditions. Therefore, it’s vital that yoga professionals be trained to welcome what may arise in an ordinary yoga class or private session….
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LifeForce Yoga (LFY) is making a difference in the lives of veterans suffering from PTSD. In the new program, run by trauma therapist and LifeForce Yoga Trainer Randy Todd, LCSW, MSW LFYP-2, veterans diagnosed with PTSD have been provided the option of participating in a weekly, coed, 90-minute LifeForce Yoga group. Todd introduced the LFY protocol to the…
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In this newsletter, we report on important research about the benefits of yoga for schizophrenia. There are also two studies that look at the benefits of yoga for inmates in prison, a review of a new book by Anodea Judith, PhD, and a new yoga curriculum for Jewish children. There is also news about the next residential LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training.
Having been transformed by the powers of Yoga and Mindfulness to heal depression, Ocean began teaching yoga (RYT 500) and facilitating meditation in 2001. She is a LifeForce Yoga Therapy Practitioner Level 2. Ocean Lum has an Hnrs. BSc. in Nutrition & Biochemistry and a MA in Counselling Psychology. She is a registered clinical counselor in private…
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I first read this story by LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Francine Kelley on her Facebook page, and the grief, power and joy of it brought me to tears. With her permission, we share it here. So there is a story to this photo I’d like to tell, especially for all those who donated so I could…
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Read about new research on the anti-inflammatory effects of yoga practice and a study about how the brain responds to meditation. We gather the latest studies on yoga and mental health as well as reviews of new books—one beautiful enough to grace your coffee table by master yoga therapist and Ayurvedic clinician Indu Aurora, and another to keep on your bookshelf, especially if you want to work with expressive arts and yoga therapy.
A complete yoga protocol, designed by a yoga therapist, was compared to supportive therapy, and although both eased symptoms of depression, this study shows that yoga actually did a better job. This study is unusal for two reasons. First, the yoga protocol was delivered and practiced during treatment, while most studies look at yoga delivered…
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Often the vein of poetry opens on retreat, because I slow down. It starts with sensory experience. When I am quiet, I can hear the difference between the rustle of oak leaves and the whisper of aspen and the deeper silence of the pines. Attuning to nature offers me the gift of words. Worries block…
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A shift in posture can be enough to create a paradigm shift in mood. In fact, the act of bringing awareness to the habitual patterns that inform our posture, even in something as simple as how you are sitting as you read this, can be enough to reduce the anxiety you may be feeling at…
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Research on Yoga as the BEST mood booster for cancer patients, and reviews of three Yoga Therapy books with chapters by Amy Weintraub