Introducing Whole-Body Pickleball
As many of you know, I have spent the last five years researching how to apply principles and practices from yoga and yoga therapy to improve sports performance and training. I started out with tennis, then expanded to pickleball, the main sport I now play and compete in. I'm teaching lessons at a local pickleball club as well as in my small yoga studio in Burlington, Vermont, I coach all levels from absolute beginners to elite players. To learn more about the philosophy behind this enterprise, click here.
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Please consider joining me in the Detroit area in January 2025 at a Yoga Therapy Symposium sponsored by the International Institute of Yoga Therapy. I'll be giving a keynote and moderating some sessions, and doing a book reading for the just-released revised and updated edition of Saving My Neck.
Immediately following the symposium, January 20-24th, I'll be teaching my 5-day Yoga As Medicine Seminar, for only the second time in the last five years. Right after that, January 25-26th, I'll be offering a brand-new weekend workshop on applying the principles and practices of yoga to improve athletic performance and lessen the chance of injuries — focusing on tennis and pickleball. Details coming soon. These workshops will be held at Namaste Yoga in nearby Royal Oak, MI.
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Going strong in its 18th year!
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What is Yoga Therapy?
Yoga Therapy — or as we call it Yoga As Medicine — is the selective use of various yoga tools — such as poses, breathing techniques, relaxation exercises and meditation, as well as dietary and lifestyle advice — to help people with virtually any health condition, physical or psychological. Because people's health and fitness vary, we often modify poses or use props to make the practices safe and effective. In Yoga As Medicine, we perform detailed holistic assessments of each client—evaluating body, mind, spirit and environment—and then craft a personalized yoga program. And that's precisely what we teach in our seminars and teacher trainings. Yoga therapy can be used by itself or as an adjunct to any conventional or alternative medical treatment. |
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FREE RESOURCE: my 2019 update of “Health Conditions Helped by Yoga (as Shown in Scientific Studies).” The PDF contains over 40 pages of references, listing the scientific studies by condition. Embedded hyperlinks will take you to the study's abstract, or if available, to a free, full-text version of the study. For printable posters (including A4 versions), click here.
I compile this bibliography of research as a service to the yoga world and hereby give permission to copy this PDF, print it out, distribute it to others and share it on social media. 
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FREE PRINTABLE POSTERS!
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In conjunction with an online course on Yoga As Medicine on Yoga U, I recorded this video. It's over 40 minutes long, and is a good introduction to my overall approach to yoga therapy, my ideas about what yoga teachers and therapists should — and shouldn't — be doing with students with medical conditions, integrating yoga into modern medical care, etc. I had a lot of fun recording this interview and hope you enjoy it!
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