by Susana Jones | Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Monique Lonner, Director of Soul Yoga Therapy Do you remember your first time? I remember teaching my first Yoga class. Over 15 years ago, I stepped out onto the teacher’s mat with my hands and voice shaking. My sequence was standard, I cued the left side of a pose...
by Susana Jones | Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Monique Lonner, Director of Soul Yoga Therapy Science + Spirit = Yoga Therapy When I began studying Yoga Therapy, I loved learning about the anatomical and physiological aspects of Yoga practice. My teachers, all straight-up anatomy experts, were Leslie Kaminoff,...
by Susana Jones | Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Monique Lonner, Director of Soul Yoga Therapy Your Fortune-Telling Feet Here in warm and sunny Southern California, we get to wear our flip flops most the year. It being June, you may have your fave flips on right now and, believe it or not, they can predict your...
by Susana Jones | May 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Monique Lonner, Director of Soul Yoga Therapy It has been said that a significant indication of one’s capability to live a courageous and whole-hearted life is their ability to be vulnerable. In keeping up appearances, and not letting ourselves get soft and quiet,...
by Susana Jones | May 24, 2018 | SHOULDERS & UPPER LIMBS
By Monique Lonner, Director of Soul Yoga Therapy Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is the top occupational hazard and the more we text and type the more prevalent it gets. CTS Surgery is the second most common type of surgical intervention – second only to that for...
by Susana Jones | Mar 21, 2018 | YOGIC PHILOSOPHY
Happy Spring! Mother Nature is doing Yoga! Springtime is a lovely example of the yogic concepts of Sukha and Sthira – Suppleness and Resiliency. With the recent rains we can see the fragile green blush starting to cover the fields and canyons. It’s still so...
by Susana Jones | Mar 21, 2018 | BODY SYSTEMS
Pain is our body’s way of alerting the brain that something is going wrong. The fact that it’s uncomfortable is what makes it so persuasive in making us take our hand off a hot stove, stepping off broken glass, or adjusting a Yoga pose. But when pain becomes long...
by Sherry Zak Morris | Feb 27, 2018 | HIPS & LOWER LIMBS
I’ve been teaching Yoga for 16 years and am a certified Yoga Therapist. I teach teachers and I work with many challenging cases. Yet even so, I think most Yoga teachers can relate when I admit that sometimes people come into my class and I think, “oh wow,...
