Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Pilates
Why do we use yoga in pelvic health physical therapy? It’s simple really. It’s effective and efficient, because you can get 6 or 7 benefits from doing a single thing. It’s integrative and whole body pelvic healthcare. Dustienne Miller and Dr. Ginger Garner sat down and had a beautiful conversation about why and how using yoga…
Dr. Ginger Garner sat down to chat with Diana Florio about using yoga in healthcare as a physical therapist. Yoga is still not being utilized to the extent it could be in healthcare and oftentimes it centers around a belief that yoga isn’t safe for people who are sick or injured. However, we learn through…
It’s true – we all have a pelvis. Unfortunately, most of you probably weren’t taught how to truly know your pelvis. What better reason to write a book except to teach women about their pelvises and to end the shame, stigma, and suffering that women endure with the mysteries that surround caring for conditions of…
In part one we considered general ways in which yoga helps you through menopause. In part two, we will discuss yoga and Ayurveda. In yoga and Ayurveda (the Indian system or medicinal side of yoga), menopause is considered an air/ether element, or vata (pronounced “vah-tuh”), condition. Characterized by dryness, the vata type (constitution) is typically…
Yoga for Menopause: 7 Reasons Why You Need Yoga More Than Ever. (Part 1) Yoga is a wonderful anecdote for healing and transformation during the (seemingly unending) season of menopause. I am still in my season of motherhood, personally, getting ready to give birth to my third child in the coming weeks. However, I am…
Me in postpartum yoga practice, 11 months after my second son Yoga for Busy Moms It is ironic that I am sitting here procrastinating about penning this post on yoga for busy moms. Why? Because I am a fellow exhausted mother – with two boys under age 5, and in my third trimester with my…
Taken in 2005Just beforegiving birth tomy first son. This week I am happy to share two blogs – written by women for women. Mother and Women’s Rights- Your (Wo)man in Washington Valerie Young Women’s Health – Midwife for your Life Stacey Curnow, CNM Both blogs are excellently written, focusing on positive change for women in…
Me as the Unsuspecting Expectant New Mom with My Boys. Fall 2010 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius The journey of motherhood could be described as perhaps the most strenuous thousand mile journey life offers. I think most mothers (and fathers alike) would agree. Parenting, not to mention pregnancy,…
I am learning that parenting gets more difficult, in different ways, as my children grow and develop. Whereas in the early years I was sleep deprived and physically exhausted, now that they are growing beyond toddler”dom” – I have regained my former energy and zip (well, maybe not all of it, but pretty close to…
I want to welcome again, Lisa B. Minn, a fellow physical therapist, medical therapeutic yoga practitioner, and fertility patient, completing her series on fertility and yoga. In last week’s guest post I wrote about the general benefits of yoga for women who are struggling to conceive. This week I want to address the topic of…
This week is a guest post from a physical therapy colleague, fellow women’s health advocate, and PYT practitioner, Lisa B. Minn. She has been a physical therapist for over a decade and during that time she has “come to be impressed by the effectiveness of a holistic approach to health care.” Welcome Lisa B….
Enjoy my guest post today about The Living Spine – on California based Professional Yoga Therapy student and physical therapist Lisa B. Minn’s fantastic blog, The PragmaticYogi.