Yoga for Times of Change Blog
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Nina Zolotow, RYT500, MFA, serves as the Editor in Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog, contributing insightful articles. With a background as a certified yoga teacher and extensive experience in yoga for emotional well-being and healthy ageing, she also authored the widely available book, "Yoga for Times of Change." Nina conducts workshops on stress, anxiety, better sleep, and..
Yoga for Times of Change Blog
8M ago
The Wave by Eyvind Earle
by Barrie
If you’re navigating through life’s changes and grappling with finding a clear path forward these days, know that you’re in good company. So many people I know are feeling adrift right now as they are confronted by the uncertainty that we all face on an individual, collective, and planetary scale.
Eastern traditions remind us that the one certainty in life is impermanence. Though we may comprehend this on a cognitive level, internalizing and accepting it on a deeper level is an entirely different challenge.
To that end, here are three ways that yoga ca ..read more
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8M ago
by Jivana Heyman
Today I’m excited to share with you an short excerpt from my latest book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga. My hope is that this book will be a companion along the path for new and experienced yoga teachers and yoga therapists. I offer tips and skills for teaching in a way that welcomes all students into your classes. I also reflect on the student/teacher relationship, and the internal process that we go through to take the seat of teacher. For further information, see The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga.
I’m also giving away a copy of the book! To be entered to win ..read more
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8M ago
by Nina
Hi, Readers! I have received a few emails asking me if I’m okay and whether I’ll be writing again for the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog. So, I decided that it was time for me to tell you all about how I’m doing and what my plans are.
First of all, I’m absolutely fine! No need to worry about me having health problems or whatever. As I said in my post Summer Vacation, I had decided to take the summer of 2023 off to decide whether I wanted to keep on writing for and editing the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog. I actually started this blog—along with Baxter Bell and Brad Gibson—in 2011. That wa ..read more
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8M ago
Anjali Mudra
by Barrie
For a long time, I struggled to find an authentic way to practice gratitude. By “authentic”, I mean a form of gratitude rooted in reality, which doesn’t ignore or deny life’s hardships or attempt to minimize the pain we might be experiencing.
To be honest, considering everything happening in the world, I questioned whether this was even possible Nonetheless, was determined to find a genuine approach to cultivating gratitude because of its well-documented benefits for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
One reason gratitude can be challenging to e ..read more
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8M ago
by Nina
The other day my neighbors came over for a backyard visit and they brought along their adult son, who was visiting them from out of town. He’s a physical therapist, who loves his work, and I did know that his mother had sent him two of my books, Yoga for Times of Change and Yoga for Healthy Aging. We had a lot of fun chatting about this and that—making lots of jokes—until just as he was leaving, he said to me, “By the way, I really love your books! I mean it, I just love them. And I teach my patients things from your books all the time—they don’t even know it’s yoga, bu ..read more
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8M ago
Summer Night by Edvard Munch
by Nina
Because my husband retired this month and we’ve been figuring out what’s next for both of us—yes, one of those life transitions I wrote about it my book Yoga for Times of Change—I’ve decided to take the summer off from running this blog, which I do entirely by myself. And I don’t yet have a firm date for when I will return to posting on a regular basis (there may be the occasional post this summer).
For those of you who will miss having regular new posts to read, I have two suggestions: 1) check out some of the blogs written by our regular contributors th ..read more
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8M ago
by Ellen Saltonstall
“The reason we think balance is associated with longevity is because it requires keeping your brain and nervous system’s integration circuitry intact.” —Danine Fruge, MD, family-practice physician
Practicing specifically for better balance is important for us at any age, but it is essential for those of us over 50 or 60, when so many changes happen in our bodies. To work on balance with yoga, Tree pose is a common choice. Although Tree Pose is iconic, often representative of yoga in general, there are many other diverse and entertaining ways to improve balance. &nbs ..read more
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8M ago
by Nina
I’m going to do something different for this post about the workshops, events, and classes that our regular contributors have planned: I’ll be including the information about them for June, July, and August, instead of just next month. In addition, because we have returned to in-person teaching, our teachers are all currently looking for new opportunities to teach in-person workshops as well as online workshops. So, for all your studio owners, I’m going to list for each teacher which types of workshops they would like to teach in the future. I think the list of areas of expertise that ..read more
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8M ago
Hope to Megunticook by Neil Welliver
by Beth
In my last post, I explored Steps 5 & 6: Intuitive Wisdom. In this post, I talk about Step 7: Find Your Bliss, Step 8: Connect to Your Bliss, and Step 9: Bring Bliss into Your Daily Life. The Taittiriya Upanishad, the philosophical and spiritual source of this contemporary view of self-awareness, has this to say about Self:
“When one realizes the Self, in whom
All life is one, changeless, nameless, formless,
Then one fears no more. Unless we realize
The Unity of Life, we live in fear.”
—The Upanishads, translation by Eknath Easwaran
Because on ..read more
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8M ago
by Sandy
Whether you’re new to practicing yoga or a seasoned practitioner, very often the most difficult part of practicing is actually starting. That can mean the challenge of first establishing a home practice, but it’s also true for getting yourself onto the mat each day even after you’ve been practicing for years or, in my case, decades.
There are always many obstacles to practicing and plenty of reasons not to do it each day. We all have competing priorities, such as household chores, socializing, and the lure of our electronics. During the years of the Covid lockdown, when many more peo ..read more