Transgender Veteran finds himself through yoga and community
Veteran Jay Cambridge joined the Air Force as a woman. Today, he is transgender, a yoga instructor and connected to his body and spirit.
Live Whole Health #93 – Yoga Stretch
Do you feel discomfort, pain or stiffness from sitting or being in one position for too long? We spend a lot of time using computers or handheld devices, driving or cooking with our hands and arms in front of us, and our heads bent forward in a slouched position. Being aware of our posture – and stretching to ease tight muscles – with yoga stretch can help restore balance.
Live Whole Health #88: Standing chair yoga
Going to the gym every day, even when you’re not planning to exercise, is the best way to build a healthy habit that prepares you to improve your fitness. For other days, there's standing chair yoga.
Live Whole Health #70: Chair yoga
When it comes to yoga, we hear these often: “I can’t do yoga, I’m not flexible,” or “I don’t know what all the fuss is about yoga,” or “My daughter does yoga, but she’s young and fit,” and “You won’t catch me in yoga pants!” But what about chair yoga?
Live Whole Health #66: Lower body chair yoga practice
You may think of yoga as a practice only done by the young and flexible, but all of us can do it. After a recent knee surgery, I was unable to get around without crutches, but I was still able to do breathing practices, meditate, and even do some yoga postures in a chair.
Live Whole Health #61: Reimagine Yoga
What do you think of when you hear the word "yoga?" If your image of yoga involves headstands and pretzel twists with a group of women in a studio, then it's time to reimagine yoga.
VA nurses empower Veterans with yoga and guided meditation
Whole health programs at Roseburg VA are centered around what matters to you, not what is the matter with you. Facing your fears can be difficult but this nurse guarantees the process is worth it.
Veterans Yoga Project offers daily resources to support recovery and well-being
Veterans Yoga Project partners with VA facilities, Veteran centers, service organizations, and universities throughout the U.S. to provide Mindful Resilience classes. In these sessions, tools are offered to complement other forms of treatment for PTS(D) and mental/emotional challenges.
Live Whole Health: Self-care episode #10 – Chair Yoga
Want to see how yoga is for everybody? How it can help you to become flexible, balanced and calm? Join yoga instructor (and health and wellness program manager) Mandie Johnson from Central Arkansas VAMC for this 9-minute chair yoga practice.
iRest, You Rest: Virtual yoga nidra sessions to help fight stress
Southeastern Louisiana VA hosts a weekly Thursday night yoga nidra class at the War Related Illness and Study Center in New Orleans.
For Veterans with Parkinson’s disease: The benefits of yoga
Yoga is very popular and is cited as a favorite non-medical therapy by many people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). People are often fearful of getting started in a yoga class since there is often an incorrect portrayal of yoga in the media as being only for flexible, skinny ballet dancers. Yoga, on the contrary, is a very adaptable practice, with both functional and psychosocial benefits, that can be suited to a wide variety of abilities.
Can yoga ease your PTSD? VA wants to find out
A VA psychologist in Indiana is exploring the effects yoga might have on Veterans suffering with posttraumatic stress disorder.
