Yoga in Korea ICN airport.

I'm walking by the lounge in the Korea (ICN) airport with a 7 hour layover, and there is an advertisement for a yoga session. Hmmmm, need to see what that is all about!

Taught a prenatal yoga class in Mongolia, where the custom is that you do not get down on the floor in a public setting. Had to really change up what I was going to teach. Good thing I created two lesson plans, and one of them was to do poses in the chair for prenatal yoga!

Also taught a private yoga lesson for Amber's Chamber of Commerce director in Avraikheer. The emphasis on poses for back issues.

Additionally, showed Patrick and the director, the YogaFit Flying Bird vinyasa, and one of my favorites, the YogaFit Twisted Chair vinyasa (or maybe that is my vinyasa, but I'm just presenting the poses in the traditional YogaFit format). Definately got their (and mine) heart rate up, just with those vinyasas and a few Salute to the Suns.

gaileee
p.s. See you soon in the states!
p.s.s. I guess I'm an international yoga teacher now.

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My new Neti Pot

I didn't pack my neti pot with me, as I'm visiting Mongolia to see my daughter, who is in the peace corps (http://peacecorpsmongolia.wordpress.com/).

We went to the Arvaikheer market today, and I purchased an 11 ounce stainless steel teapot, that I hope to use for my neti pot. But I'll be using regular salt. Hope that doesn't burn the lining of my nose!! I purchased the neti(tea) pot in the Buddhist store.

We then ate lunch at a popular restaurant. I ate a Russian Peroski for lunch, and crinkle french fries. It is like a hot pocket with mutton, rice & spices.

Amber tells me as we are going to the ancient captial of Mongolia tommorow, that her boss is going to either get us a goat or sheep for us to do horhog....like a Mongolian BBQ (think smoked pig in a pit, I think..). True "Mongolian BBQ".

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Conditions Improved By Yoga, Self Reported - from "Yoga As Medicine" Book by Timothy McCall, M.D.

This article bears worth repeating! Look at all these conditions that Yoga helps you with!

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As I am getting deeper and deeper into one of the books that we are to read for the YogaFit Therapy course, I am amazed at all the benefits of a regular yoga practice can do for folks. And I'm a yoga teacher. (The more you teach yoga, it seems the more you want to know....and need to know!)

Please read on for more information about "Yoga as Medicine" book (excellent!)by Timothy McCall, M.D. http://www.drmccall.com/ ~Gaileee

Yoga appears to be effective in the treatment of a wide variety of health conditions. In Timothy McCall, M.D. Book, "Yoga As Medicine", he goes on to say: We'll be reviewing the scientific evidence later but, for now, let's see what people who've tried therapeutic yoga have to say. In 1983 - 84, the London-based Yoga Biomedical Trust, run by Robin Monro, PhD, surveyed twenty-seven hundred(2,700) people, most between the ages of thirty-one and sixty, who used yoga therapeutically. To be included, participants had to have practiced yoga for at least two hours a week for a year or longer. Though the number of people with some of the conditions in question was small, the results (see the table below, and in Dr. McCall's book, Table 1.1) were impressive:

• 98 percent of back-pain sufferers found yoga helpful


• 90 percent of cancer patients


• 82 percent of people with insomnia


• and 100 percent of alcoholics

The lowest success rate in the survey was for women with "menstrual problems," two out of three of whom found that yoga helped.

Table 1.1 Conditions Improved by Yoga, Self-Reported

  Medical Condition     Number of               Percentage Helped
                    People Reporting               By Yoga

Alcoholism               24                          100%
Anxiety                 838                           94%
Arthritis &
Rheumatic Disorders     589                           90%
Asthma or Bronchitis    226                           88%
Back Disorders        1,142                           98%
Cancer                   29                           90%
Diabetes                 10                           80%
Duodenal Ulcers          40                           90%
Heart Disease            50                           94%
Hemorrhoids             391                           88%
High Blood Pressure     150                           84%
Insomnia                542                           82%
Menopausal Disorders    247                           83%
Menstrual Problems      317                           68%
Migraine                464                           80%
Neurological &
Neuromuscular Diseases  112                           96%
Obesity                 240                           74%
Premenstrual Syndrome   848                           77%
Smoking                 219                           74% 

Source: The Yoga Biomedical Trust, London

Imagine how much you'd be hearing about a new drug that could accomplish even a fraction of this. Nevertheless, (it is Dr. Timothy McCall's)it's my experience that few in the medical community or the general public have any conception of what yoga has to offer. Part of the problem, (Dr. McCall) I'm convinced, is that many people who could benefit from yoga shy away due to misconceptions about what it is and isn't, or who can do it and who shouldn't.

Those subjects to be addressed in a different post.

Here is a NEW link about the 50 conditions benefited by Yoga by Dr. Timothy McCall!
http://www.drmccall.com/50HealthConditionsBenefitedbyYoga--Updated6-09.pdf

Enjoy the updated info!

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Oh, Your Achin' Back! (Yoga Helps!)

Oh, Your Achin' Back

Sad to say, most of us will have back pain at some point in our lives, but the best cures are surprising low-tech, says Luke Madigan, MD, a spine specialist at Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic in Tennessee. Some easy yet effective options:

Do next to nothing. In a review of more than 70 studies analyzed by Dr. Madigan, 90% of patients with back pain felt better three months after a flare-up, whether they used an anti-inflammatory (like Advil) or a heating pad or did daily stretching.

Relax. "Research has shown that meditation and gentle yoga can help relieve back pain," says Susan Evans, PhD, director of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program at Weill Cornell Medical College. That's probably because they decrease muscle tension and your perception of how bad the discomfort really is. Abigal Cuffey, for the July 7, 2009 Womans Day Magazine.

So, come to Yoga Next Monday night, June 22, 2009 at 7 p.m. for a bit of Gentle Beginning Back Yoga with Gaileee. (Soon to be an Internationally Known Yoga Teacher).

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Sweat and Sculpt Yoga with Gaileee, E-RYT

Great class today.

Used the hand weights, light and heavy. (Muscle Endurance)
Therabands. (Enhance Stretching)
Resist-a-ball. (Core Challenge and Ab Workout)
Small Core Yoga Ball. (Target Abs and Hip Flexors in our Boat/Cobblers pose variations)
Yoga Mat. (Keeping glued to the mat, through the vinyasas)

The sweat starting to drip just minutes class has started and continued throughout the class, until the last portion of the class.

Received some nice complements about the class. Supervisor told me that they like to me a bit more cardio on Saturday mornings, so we stepped it up a bit, from the classes that I normally teach at the YMCA.

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