New Updates to Quelling Nausea During Pregnancy
If you haven't (and especially if you have) read the Quelling Nausea During Pregnancy post from last week, be sure to download the new version here. It includes new updates and both anecdotal...
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Quelling Nausea (Naturally) During Pregnancy
My Beautiful Cause For Nausea (My second son, taken in 2007)My last few posts have been dedicated to parenting (Read the Yoga of Compassionate Parenting) and getting pregnant (Read the Fertility and...
The Yoga of Compassionate Parenting
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...
Women’s Rights: Are You Exercising Yours?
This year marks (only) the 90 year anniversary of women earning a basic human civil right: the right to vote. As a woman - and as a mother, I have both been an observer and a victim of the...
Yoga Without A Mat: A How To Guide
Yoga Without A Mat: A How To Guide Featuring Two Guest Posts from Kathryn Hudson and Alaha Ahrar. The great thing about this week's post is it doesn't cost you a thing. You get to save your...
Yoga for Fertility – Part 2
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...
Part 1: Struggling with Infertility: Can Yoga Help?
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...
A Mother’s Bill of Rights?
As mothers, it is our nature to take care of others. That is nothing new. What is shocking is that society has taken advantage of this fact for centuries. And while they continue to take,...
The Mommy Wars
I recently had a question from a reader, a mother of 2 young girls. The problem she presented has been plaguing women since they left the home en masse and entered the workplace - from the 1970's...
Is Your Kid A Food Snob? (maybe she/he should be)
Is Your Kid A Food Snob? Getting Your Kids to Eat Healthy A few weeks ago I was researching preschools and childcare in the area. During my search, I had a wonderful conversation with the director...
Happiness Inventory, part 3 of 3 (Lose Weight for Good)
As promised, here are the last 5 tips in the Happiness Inventory, part 3 (Losing Weight for Good). If you didn't get to read the first two parts, here they are: Happiness Inventory, part...
The Living Spine
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.