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A fusion of two long-standing traditions and a teacher are at the forefront of a movement.

"What I love about paddleboard yoga is the concept that you're really connecting to the water element, so you have to learn how to ground into the flow as the water is moving beneath you and connect to that fluidity," said Dashama. "It's really useful to apply this principle into your everyday life, as things are always changing in life, and really learn to go with the flow."

Yogi and author Dashama's strong presence on the web and at conferences and seminars around the world has helped connect people with the fresh form of exercise.

"I've taught people of all ages," said Dashama. "You can be a beginner and just enjoy more basic poses."

But this innovative hybrid isn't something new; yoga is an ancient practice, and people have been standing on boards for one reason or another for some time.

Dashama will be returning to Miami from Oct. 9-12 to lead a four-day paddleboard yoga teacher training. Pranashama.org has the schedule of her upcoming world tour.

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(PRWEB) July 30, 2014

This winter Integrated Health Yoga Therapy (http://www.ihyt.org/) will be hosting a two-part Restorative Yoga Teacher Training featuring Vancouver-based yoga therapist, instructor, and teacher trainer Tianne Allan (http://www.yogatianne.com/) whose buoyant expression of her unique blend of experience and knowledge in the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of healing reflects IHYTs own wholistic approach combining the subtleties of yogic tradition with modern scientific practice and research.

This training combines a broad and rigorous groundwork of knowledge and expertise with ample opportunity and guidance for practical application. It is part of IHYTs 800-hour Yoga Therapist certification (Level 2) and takes place November 26 to Dec. 1 (Part 1) and Dec. 3 to Dec. 10 (Part 2) 2014 at IHYTs Hamilton Ontario location. It covers Restorative Yoga and Restorative Therapeutics for certified yoga instructions looking to upgrade their skills and level of certification but is also recommended for anyone wanting to incorporate restorative practice into their work or personal lives, including serious yoga students, body workers, physical therapists, nurses, and health professionals in the field of body-mind medicine and psychology. For full curriculum and details check out http://www.ihyt.org/#!restorative-yoga-teacher-cert/c1j1z.

Restorative yoga, for the uninitiated, works to relax and restore body, mind and spirit with the use of long, gentle, prop-assisted poses, sometimes in conjunction with breathing exercises, meditations, visualizations, and other traditional yogic mind-body techniques. Its calming effects can help patients manage fatigue and stress, recover from illness or injury, deal with depression, anxiety, or grief, and improve general health.

Tianne Allan came to restorative yoga after competing as a driven high-performance athlete from the age of 7. Her initial experience of yoga was doing power yoga to help her recover from a herniated back. Then while crossing the road she was hit by a car and her relationship with her body changed. She could no longer compete at the same high level, and she needed something to fill that gap. She found it in an unexpected place: the quiet and peace of restorative yoga.

In the midst of her recovery, through the journey of finding out what I could do, I found this wonderful healing and rejuvenating practice and I was just blown away by the power and strength of that practice, more of an inward power as opposed to an outward power [. . .] The first moment we did that restorative I remember feeling a huge awakening within, a feeling that this was something powerful on a much more nourishing and sustaining level.

In an era where stress seems unavoidable and uncontrollable and simple refuges such as sleep and relaxation continue to elude so many of us, the role of restorative yoga is changing from a niche therapy to something that can benefit almost everyone. One of Tiannes recent favourite quotes looks at the situation humorously:

If you can start the day without caffeine, if you can resist complaining about troubles, if you can take criticism and blame without resentment, if you can conquer tension without medical help, if you can relax without liquor, if you can sleep without the aid of drugs, then youre probably the family dog.

One powerful application of restorative yoga, and one of Tiannes foremost areas of expertise, is in improving our quality of sleep. Restorative practices allow the patient to reduce and manage the stresses that typically interfere with sleep. According to Tianne Allan, quality sleep can strengthen our bodies, sharpen and clarify our minds, increase our energy and stamina, make us more emotionally stable, invigorate our creativity, and improve our relationships with ourselves and others.

If I said to people, Ive got this amazing new health supplement, she jokes, [. . .] How much would you pay for it? [. . .] The truth is, sleep is free. Similarly breath is such an important part of our health and vitality and we dont pay attention to it either. Sometimes if we put a price on something we value it more.

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Acro Yoga Challenge
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By Stephanie Kanowitz July 29 at 5:55 AM

Anna Guest-Jelley thought something was wrong with her body, so she went on 65 different diets. Then, 15 years ago, she tried something that actually made her feel better: yoga.

But instructors didnt always know what to do with her larger frame, and prodded her into uncomfortable, squished positions. Guest-Jelley remembers thinking, This isnt being talked about. I must be the only one who experiences it, she says.

So the Nashville, Tenn., resident got teacher training and developed Curvy Yoga (curvyyoga.com). Since 2010, Guest-Jelley has certified 158 instructors worldwide including one in D.C. and two in Alexandria in her hatha-based body-positive yoga for people of all shapes and sizes. Shell teach a class in D.C. next week.

What makes Curvy Yoga unique? One, we have pose options for bigger-bodied people, so ways to make your belly feel more comfortable, for example. The other is in the way that I sequence the class, from the most supported version of the pose to the least supported so that everyone has a way to do a pose.

Whats a typical pose option? A standing forward bend is a great example. Instead of coming into it with feet together, kind of compacted, I ask people to find a comfortable distance between their feet. As they fold forward, they can bring their hands to the low belly, tuck that belly skin down toward the pelvis and then fold forward. Then they can also bring hands to blocks instead of shins or the floor.

Any other common adjustments you suggest? In inversions, many women can get something that I like to call death by boob smoosh, where you feel like youre being strangled or suffocated by your own breasts, which is not a fun experience. People can take a strap, bind the strap at the top of the breast and then that keeps them from coming back when people are upside-down.

Why does yoga have a reputation for being only for skinny people? There is that idea that you have to be thin or fit or flexible to come to yoga. In my estimation, theres always a way someone can do a pose. It may not look like someone elses pose, but they can find a way, whether its seated in a chair or using the support of a wall. Its less about the external shape and more about whats happening in the persons body.

Anna Guest-Jelley will be teaching Curvy Yoga at Lil Omm (4708 Wisconsin Ave. NW; lilomm.com) Monday at 7:45 p.m. A drop-in is $20.

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Costa Rica Yoga Spa - Yoga in the Rancho | Live Sitar
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Bao Sheng Durian Farm info is here http://www.durian.com.my/

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