Podcasts about easy yoga

Comprising three separate, soothing and strengthening yoga workouts, today's skill works with your Echo regardless of whether you have a screen or not. Feedback, comments, demos pleas to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com

Ryan's back from yoga, and it's put him into a new perspective, which is: the importance of taking it easy. So don't forget to relax, and enjoy that. 

It’s the International Day of Yoga. We didn’t want to miss the occasion, so in this episode we’re talking easy yoga for tired people. You can even do this pose in bed while binging a show! Links Yoga for better sleep - Harvard Health http://bit.ly/better-sleep-yoga . Relieve Stress with Legs-up-the-Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) | Yoga Journal https://bit.ly/3pVIjTQ . Follow us on Instagram @thespace_podcast and https://bit.ly/thespace_instagram here Review The Space on Apple Podcasts and https://bit.ly/review-the-space here Credits   Host: Casey Donovan @caseydonovan88 Content: Amy Molloy @amy_molloy Executive Producer: Elise Cooper Editor: Adrian Walton Podcasting Intern: David Cooper See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Shorter and Easier Vinyasa Yoga Flow class - if you have limited time available and need gentle yoga. (If you prefer a traditional 45min vinyasa yoga practice, try #92 Fourty-5 Minute Yoga). Class Guidelines:- 1. set your intent. 2. practice with a steady rhythmic breath. 3. focused awareness to movement and breath. Then rest or meditate after the class. You can practice this class before your pranayama and meditation practice - - -> for a steadier - easier meditation. Namaste. (this class is for all levels of practice) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bruceyogi/message

At last an "easier" class, this time, a gentle and easy vinyasa flow. "Feel easy, and feel free." Take your time, ease your way into the sequence, try practicing with super-awareness... allowing a deeper practice if you have it in you. Repeat this class again, and again, that way you can get to be a little more confident with the flow. This is a class for all levels of yogi, including Beginners. Namaste. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bruceyogi/message

Slow Easy Yoga For Beginners Hi Friends, PLEASE NOTE: This is a live tutorial if you find it challenging to follow, please visit my YouTube Channel to follow the Tutorial Video. https://youtu.be/Jpqz97ZUQqw Welcome to this session today. Sharing with you a slow easy yoga for beginners. This is perfect if you are a beginners wanting to explore a Yoga session that is slow and easy. We move slowly with awareness and the session easy so you can really relax into it and feel into the body and have time to get into the postures with care and ease. Please do share if you like and don't forget to give me a thumbs up for more content like this video. Thank you for your continuous support and love; it means so much. x Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lotusfloweryoga/ FREE 31 Days of Yoga Course - https://www.lotusfloweryoga.co.uk/31-days-of-yoga Short Guided Meditation To Start Your Day - https://youtu.be/3MtpxuLMcps Beginners Yoga At Home - https://youtu.be/mMIrNeEbhzM How To Do Pigeon Pose - https://youtu.be/Ls84pAf2MHw How To Do Cobra Pose - https://youtu.be/GpRa8-DjD_4 How To Do Downward Facing Dog Pose - https://youtu.be/qgsewQNvC_g How To Do Upward Facing Dog Pose - https://youtu.be/silZJTDWQfc Join my Full-length private group LIVE YOGA Class Streams: Wednesday: 7:00pm-8:00 pm (BST) Friday: 7:00pm-8:00 pm (BST) Sunday: 11:00am-12:00 pm (BST) You can book your place or join our memberships at: https://www.lotusfloweryoga.co.uk MY YOGA FAVOURITES: Meditation cushion - https://amzn.to/2QEQgvR Writing Journal - https://amzn.to/2YREqTB My Leggings In The Video - https://tidd.ly/2PZ6H5H Yoga Book Recommendation - https://amzn.to/2Z2fRTn Toe Sox - https://amzn.to/2BFvg3J Yoga Mat - https://amzn.to/37Wgl1i Yoga Blocks - https://amzn.to/31d7vL6 Yoga Strap - https://amzn.to/3hVOva7 Your Beginners Yoga Guide: - https://amzn.to/2ROKUzl My poetry book : - Grow From The Inside' - https://amzn.to/3a3HJKm Weighted Blankets - https://amzn.to/3hMC4wJ I recommend that you seek medical advice before attempting any of my Yoga sessions Together online live sessions because some sessions may not be suitable for your body. It’s, therefore, important not to attempt any form of yoga without first consulting your doctor. You take full responsibility for yourself and anything you may do within the session or later during practice. You must be mindful and careful about your body so that you know when a position or movement may be unsuitable for you. I recommend that you do some research before attempting any of the postures. Please take your doctor’s advice to confirm that you are healthy and well enough to do the yoga postures and movements demonstrated in this video before attempting anything shown in this video. The same goes for all other content provided by me, including my pre-recorded yoga videos and my live classes. By relying on this video or any content provided by Katya or Lotus Flower Yoga, you agree that you take full responsibility for your body and any consequences including injury that you may sustain as a result. This session should only be attempted after your doctor has assessed you. Not all exercises are suitable for everyone. Your doctor will advise you about which exercise you can or cannot do. I take no responsibility for your practice and any consequences. I hope you found this video helpful. Please hit “Like” if you liked the video and want more such videos. Note: This description may contain affiliate links to products that we use personally. If you click on these links, this channel may earn a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Your support is highly appreciated.

In this talk we met with Christine and Lisa to discuss and share some trauma-informed and body-oriented nervous system resources during the COVID 19 pandemic. This talk was recorded during the beginning of the pandemic in April, but still feels pertinent in it’s launch on air in October. Some of the topics covered: - The importance of orienting towards resources during challenging times. - From hyper-productivity to stop, and how much that reveals our cultural rushing. - Sheltering at home as a holding container. - Seeing how society is revealing where people are in terms of nervous system states: fight, flight, freeze and appease. - The raising of responses to these events: conspiracy theories, feelings of being at loss, overwhelm, not knowing how to deal with this “invisible” emergency. - What is it to function in a world that doesn’t support a healthy nervous system? The body is having a “neuroceptive” response and the way back to regulation is in the body. - Polyvagal Theory and the difference in the state adaptations across cultures. - Epigenetics, Family Systems and Stress. Stress, trauma and the body, Saj Razvi YouTube video. - Mobilization before safety and connection. What are we adapting to in the environment? I’m not messed up, I have a nervous system. - The loss of pleasure during trauma, allowing tuning into savoring and directing the attention back to pleasure sensations. The Hakomi Method and self-soothing gestures to bring more awareness of pleasure. - Ways in which people attempt self-regulation and functionality via external resources that are substitute forms of resources that are destructive. The concept of “vitality” as a resource that arises from within vs resources that are external. Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past 1st Edition, by Sharon Stanley - The Threshold Theory of Change, by Lisa Elliot. The reductionist idea of our culture, in terms of finding the reductionist “one” solution. Accessing greater health from a social justice response. - The midbrain, effort and control area. - Orienting to the small moments of safety, regulation and pleasure. The small steps towards pleasure and regulation. One step at the time, one dish at the time, one breath at the time. - Tracking and getting to know your own system. What’s your vitality enjoy? - Orienting to safety and threat through vision. Doing a task until completion, and avoiding chronic stress. The concept of simultaneous visual awareness via panoramic vision. Z-Health Neurofundamentals free of charge Other Resources: - Finding the gravel at the bottom of the river to stop being swept away. - Parts of the self, a part of you experiencing something, and me as the observer and care taker of this part. Turning kindness and compassion towards ourselves. My body and mind have done so much to keep me safe. Understanding the intelligence of the nervous system responses. - Start small, build up from there. Locate one part of your body that feels ok. - Using a therapy ball or lacrosse ball to map (feel) places of the body that feel pleasant, using language that feels inviting. - Accumulate those things you have access to; postive self regulating inputs, like a basket of resources with written things, objects. Ekeko god (Peru-Bolivia) as an example. - The crucial role of compassion in this connection with resources. Turning attention with compasion. CHRISTINE WUSHKE Christine Wushke is a long time Yoga Teacher, Meditation Instructor, Myofascial Release Therapist, and Certified Hakomi Practitioner, Christine decided to merge her specialties, she began to incorporate the principles of Myofascial Release, trauma awareness and mindfulness into all her yoga classes and, noticing the amazing results and effectiveness, she designed her own system of Myofascial Yoga. Christine Wushke is also the author of Freedom is Your Nature: A Practical Guide to Transformation and creator of the “Easy Yoga for Beginners” DVD.  For more information of Christine please check out her website at freelyhuman.com  Lisa Elliott comes to this conversation as the founder of the Vagus Study Group, a large, online collaborative learning project with a mission of exploring the embodiment of experience via diverse ways of knowing.  Her work and that of the study group navigates between the methods of western science, philosophy, activism, art, and the transformative interconnectedness found in many spiritual orientations.  Lisa is a counselor-in-training at Antioch University Seattle, completing a rich internship with Dr. Sharon Stanley of Somatic Transformation before beginning private practice in December of 2020. Lisa comes to counseling as a returning student from earlier careers in photography, community organizing, arts non-profit management, construction project management, and aerial acrobatics performance and coaching. Her work with her own life-long chronic illness has led to a holistic and eco-systemic philosophy of healing and personal growth, and to a deep study of our embodiment of stress, trauma, and factors of resilience. Email us your reflections, comments and questions at embodimenttime@gmail.com

Easy Yoga Easy Yoga ist ein eingedeutschter Begriff für einen leichten und sanften Yoga. Darüber spricht Sukadev in diesem Vortrag. Hier findest du: Live online Seminare Meditationslehrer Ausbildung

Easy Yoga Easy Yoga ist ein eingedeutschter Begriff für einen leichten und sanften Yoga. Darüber spricht Sukadev in diesem Vortrag. Hier findest du: Live online Seminare Meditationslehrer Ausbildung

Comprising three separate, soothing and strengthening yoga workouts, today's skill works with your Echo regardless of whether you have a screen or not. Feedback, comments, demos please to ✉️ thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com

20200710 030 BPI: Easy Yoga for Relaxation American Council of the Blind (ACB) 2020 Virtual Conference and Convention

Sitting at your computer for long hours can lead to back stiffness. Break up your workday with easy exercises that stretch and tone muscles that support your back. Even deep breathing exercises tone your core muscles for a strong back and flatter stomach. If you have back pain, please see your healthcare provider. These exercises are not a substitute for professional advice. 5 Minute Easy Yoga at Your Desk at work. Join Shirley for a quick and easy 5 minute yoga session at your desk when you're at work or at home. It takes only 5 minutes to stretch, center, breathe, relax, de-stress and feel better. Warm up your back, ease any lower back pain and strengthen your neck while relaxing your shoulders. This online quick and easy yoga instruction is for beginners or anyone at any level. Chair yoga at your desk is easy to do and can provide needed stress relief. Shirley uses yoga breathing techniques, affirmations, breathing exercises and mindfulness with yoga postures to relax your mind and your body. Follow me here too: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirleyarcher/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shirleyarcher Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shirley_arc... Tumblr: http://shirleyarcher.tumblr.com/ For your FREE download of exercises from my book, Fitness 9 to 5, click http://bit.ly/2wJgchX For more info about Fitness 9 to 5 or to get a copy to to: http://amzn.to/2tiMDT8 Shirley is author of "Fitness 9 to 5: Easy Exercises for the Working Week" and a certified yoga instructor and award-winning personal trainer. She's written 15 books on fitness and wellness. New podcast each week featuring a mindful moment - how to master stress and create calm focus for abundant health. Please leave comments or requests for tips to help you with your biggest struggles to reach your wellness and happiness goals. Shirley Archer is a mindfulness and lifestyle coach, a best-selling author of health and fitness books, and an award-winning trainer who helps busy people who want to balance career, relationships and self-care, but who can't find the time or the right guidance. Email me at shirley@shirleyarcher.com To explore Yoga for Depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxddn... DISCLAIMER: This description contains an affiliate link to my book on amazon.com, which means that if you click the product link and purchase it, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows me to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!

My intention was to create a simple class that is accessible to Beginner Yogis. This class is suitable for all - maybe you are feeling sensitive, or in need of self-nurturing, or maybe recovering from illness or injury. Or maybe you simply overslept and don't have sufficient time for a longer class. Then this is the class for you. Namaste. (beginner beginner level, but suitable for those who are tired, recovering from illness or simply not feeling strong) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bruceyogi/message

Mother Teresa once famously said, 'We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do'. The quote while relevant in the outside world holds as much importance for your physical and mental health. So while you drive, it's not a bad idea to smile at your fellow drivers.

After you step out from your car and before you proceed towards your destination, do this yoga exercise to get rid of your backache woes.

If there was a fine for every time you slouch, we would have gone bankrupt by now. Slouching and bad posture not just lead to backaches but also stiff shoulders. Dr Surakshit Goswami, in this episode, talks about some exercises to help you with that.

Did you have your last meal during lunch? Now you are on your way back to home and the next meal will be dinner. It’s the perfect time for this exercise while you are stuck in traffic.

We all have dealt with stiff backs at some point in our lives. Infact, long commute to work is a big contributor to that rigidness. But can there be an exercise to curb it while you are in the car? Hear this episode to find out.

And the stiffness continues. After stiff back and shoulders, it’s time to take care of your stiff neck.

Dr. Surakshit Goswami shares easy yoga asana which can be done on the go!

Did you know focusing on your breath is one of the best ways to sharpen your concentration skills? Hear Dr Surakshit Goswami tell you about this simple but effective exercise while you drive.

Easy yoga class to release back tension at Trelowarren by Keren Cooksey

We are delighed to discuss what else we will be introducing to you this year. We are so delighed about the impact that The Happy Knee was able to make last year and decided to make it even better by adding ; ways to eat more veggies, Easy Yoga and getting the most out of yourself so that you can excel at work and professionally. Be sure tune in every Saturday as we have a lot in store for you!  

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-314 – Bonnie Talks Easy Yoga  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4314.mp3] Link epi4314.mp3 Support my Hood-to-Coast Relay for Cancer Research - https://give.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-research Intro Bumper: Hello and welcome to episode 4-314 of the RunRunLive podcast.  Yes it’s been a month… or two fortnights… since you last received a RunRunLive podcast.   But now, your wait is over.  As you sleep I have silently packaged up another greasy ball of endurance sports content and slid it down the pipes of the internet to your electronic familiar.   And it’s been a weird month indeed.  In my last missive from the field I told you how I had lost my computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that I have been using since last November.  And how with that missing computer went all the files for Episode 4-313 – ‘the lost masterpiece’.   This week, two weeks later, after I had gotten a new Surface, procured all the magic software that I require for my clandestine audio wrangling and tickled my ganglia into producing today’s replacements show – Delta sent my old one back to me.   Yeah, I got it back.  So next week I’ll double down and release the stillborn Episode 4-313.  It will be our little game of time travel!  What’s crazy is how attached I am to my devices. When I lost it, it was like losing a friend.  I went through, denial, anger, grief and acceptance – then it shows up!  My training has been epic over the last couple weeks.  I’m back on the Mountain Bike and back in the water and back on the trails.  As you didn’t hear in the missing episode I decided to get off the road marathon merry go round and have some fun this summer.  And fun I am having by the bucket load.  I signed up for an Olympic Triathlon in Mid-July.  Is that where I line up with nations from all over the world and march around the infield representing my country in full splendor?  No, it’s not. It’s about a mile swim, a 22 mile bike ride and a 10K.  Twice as long as a sprint tri.   Swimming is my weakest sport.  Weakest is probably the wrong phraseology.  Swimming is the part where I have the least racing confidence.   I’ve been trying to get into the pool and do some drills because I haven’t swum at all for almost two years.   Last Saturday Coach had a 1700 yard pool workout on the schedule with a 2 hour bike.  It was a nice day so I decided to just go down to the pond and do it as a brick.  (Meaning do an open water swim in the pond and then take my mountain bike out for a tour.)   I eyeballed the pond and guessed it was probably 1/3 of a mile across.   I got my wetsuit on and set out.  After I warmed up I fell into a nice rhythm.  The pond is still cold enough to be comfortable, maybe 75 degrees. The water was black and murky and full of pollen, and I was basically looking at nothing.  The sky was overcast so the sun wasn’t in my eyes when I rolled to breathe.   When I had been doing a lot of pool work a couple years ago when that Plantar Fasciitis sidelined me, I managed to work out a 3-stroke alternate breathing pattern. Stroke – Stroke – Stroke – Breathe Right, 1 2 – 3 Breathe Left, and so on.   Miracles of miracles this seems to have corrected most of my slice.  When I sighted I was swimming fairly true towards the horizon.  (With My old 2-stroke cadence I basically swam in a circle and had to site and correct constantly.   The cold water flowed by in a murky silence.  Dark and deep.  The grey skies muffled the world outside my goggles.  The tri-wet-suit kept me easy, balanced and true in the water.  The ear plugs completed the deprivation.  I fell into a deep meditative practice and pulled silently across the lake.   When I got close to the end I turned around and pulled back.  There was a bit of a head wind and a little chop on the return but I was relaxed and strong, considering it was like my 3rd time in the water in 2 years.   I had stuffed my Garmin under my swim cap to see if I could at least get the distance estimate.  It won’t pick up your HR through the water, but it will track the GPS, and if you put it under your cap it gets jostled around less.   When I climbed out of the water at the town beach feeling tired but settled I checked the watch.  According to Mr. Garmin I had been in the water for 56 minutes and had swum 1.49 miles.  Really? I was blown away! Even if it was off by 30% that was a hell of a swim for my 3rd time in the water.   I hopped on my 29er and rode the trails for another 2 hours – for a heck of a workout.   So the lesson, my friends, is that your body doesn’t forget the training.  Once you have the endurance engine and the endurance mindset it doesn’t go away.  I rolled out tools that I trained into my body in the winter of 2013 – and my machine remembered them.  I hope that Oly lets us wear wetsuits.  My two-piece leopard print bikini just has too much drag.   … I went out for a run the next day in the trails.  I was supposed to do like 1:45.  I’ve started taking Buddy for a first 2 ish mile loop, then I stick him back in the house and go out for the rest.  He’s getting old and his hips bother him  20 minutes is enough to get him some exercise but not wreck him.  I’m pumping up this little hill on the trails behind my house, with my hat on, my head down and my headphones in, lost in the run and WHAM! I take an overhanging oak tree right off the noggin like somebody hit me with a 2 x 4.   There I am laying on the trail seeing stars and I feel bits of teeth in my mouth! This tree fell across the trail about 5.5 feet off the ground and I ran right into it.  When I hit it it jammed my jaws and broke a couple of my teeth! Crazy.  So I took the dog home, put the tooth pieces on my desk and went out and finished the run.  No worse for wear but I did have to visit the dentist and get a bunch of teeth bonded up.  Tuesday I ran 1:45 with my buddy Bob in the land locked forest and Wednesday I rode my mountain bike the 18 miles to work and back.  I feel like superman but I’m beat! I love summer! I love multisport training!  We’ve got a great show for your today.  I have a chat with Bonnie Kissinger, triathlete, mom, engineer and Yoga instructor.  I used Bonnie’s yoga routines for my Boston training this year.  I think it helped and I definitely learned some new tricks.  (Old dog – new tricks).  I wanted to plumb her thoughts on the current popularity of yoga and meditation and how we can make it more accessible for every day runners like you and me.   In the first section I’ll chat about how beginning runners can find the time to start their fitness routines.  In the second section I’ll review a book I read last week called “The Art of Work” – that is about how to find your calling.  Everything is cool.  It’s summertime and the living is easy.  The catfish are jumpin and the cotton is high.   On with the show! Section one - Running Tips Finding time to start running - http://runrunlive.com/creating-space-in-your-life-to-start-running http://runrunlive.com/back-to-basics-how-to-become-a-runner-from-scratch Voices of reason – the interviews Bonnie Kissinger http://bonniekissinger.com/ Coach Bonnie Kissinger is a 500 RYT and mechanical engineer, specializing in yoga for athletes. She is also a certified health coach and Ironman Triathlete. With 10 years of experience teaching yoga and focusing on functional movements in yoga, her instruction focuses on cultivating more balance within joints and better kinetic movements. 30 Min Hamstring Y Class:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RawDwT_00 Meditation 101:  Lesson 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slILB--WCds Triangle Chat:  http://bonniekissinger.com/online-yoga/ http://bonniekissinger.com/online-yoga/ Section Two – Life Lessons The Art of Work - http://runrunlive.com/the-art-of-work Outro OK My friends, you lucky devils, you herd of catastrophically fortunate humans, you got to the end of the episode 4-314 of the RunRunLive Podcast and next week, if all goes according to plan I’ll post-date-launch episode 4-313 with some sleight of hand, so that future generations will never know there was a gap! Re-writing history we are.   As it turns out, I’m racing this weekend.  Getting up at the crack of dawn on Sunday and driving down to Plymouth for the Mayflower Brewery ½ marathon.  I’m treating it as a tempo run, not a race.  I haven’t been training for road racing – so I just have to not hurt myself and get a little exercise with friends.  My heart seems to be working ok.  With the multisport I don’t drive as much direct stress into it but it seems to be staying in zone 2 well and it recovers very quickly from efforts.  There’s an AFib support group on Facebook that Paula pointed me to.  It seems that this malady is quite common.   You might say Chris, you’re pushing it too hard, but the multisport training is more of an overall body stressor than a heart stressor. It’s actually quite well balanced. I’m not worried about it or giving it much attention at this point – I’m just having fun.  You know what else is really prevalent?  Cancer!  That’s why I’m continuing to support cancer research this summer.  I set up a page for the Hood to Coast Relay.  The link is in the show notes.  I’m still fleshing out my campaign, but any donation you can make helps.  Cancer sucks.   Also I n the show notes are links to a few of Bonnie’s yoga videos that I used, and continue to use, in my training.  Check out her site and the resources she has there.   It is summertime! I’ve already started harvesting salad from my garden.  My hops, my berry crops, my herbs and my beans are all thriving.  My peppers and tomatoes are a bit sad, I’ll have to give them some chemical encouragement this weekend.  But my biggest success is the new potato box that we are experimenting with.  You build a simple board box, with 4 upright posts and flat boards up the sides.  I made mine 4 X 4 – which is a little large in retrospect.   You start by putting one row of boards on – so in my case like 8 inches high.  You fill that up with soil and plant your potato sets.  As the potatoes grow you add boards and soil so the box keeps getting higher.  I’m up to 4 boards now with no sign of stopping.  I’m going to have 300 pounds of potatoes.   In theory, you are supposed to be able to remove the bottom boards and harvest from the bottom.  We’ll see how that works.  That seems to run counter to Newton’s laws.  But, I’ll try.  You have to keep learning new things.   I guess that’s what scares me or disappoints me about this heart problem.  It might mean I have to stop going longer, deeper and harder in my sports pursuits.  To me that means a curtailing of adventure.  I don’t do all this stuff for achievement, I do it for adventure.  That’s the itch that needs to be scratched. That’s how I’m wired.  I like to learn.  As they say in the business world; “I’m a hunter, not a farmer.” How about you?  When was the last time you tried something new?  Something outside your routine?  Something that forced you to learn?  Something that, maybe, scared you a bit?   How are you positioned to rise to a new challenge?  What would you do if you lost your laptop? How would you react if you learned you had a heart problem or something worse? These people in this AFib FaeceBook Group are very scarcity and fear focused.  They bemoan all the things they can’t do.  Like a recent post where a bunch of them gave up sex due to fear of triggering a heart-racing episode – (which is kinda what sex is about, no?)  All they can focus on is loss because they started with the wrong mindset.  They were never comfortable with what they had to begin with.  They weren’t grateful for what they had. With this existing negative mindset they are less capable to deal with any new challenges. They essentially see their heart problem as a confirmation of their negativity bias.  “See? I told you life sucks!”  What if, and stay with me here, you instead saw your life and everything in it as a gift? How would that position you to deal with new challenges? Would, you maybe see them as opportunities?  Opportunities to break with the old, embrace a new beginning and rewrite the future?  Maybe these things, as we have heard from so many challenged athletes on this show over the years, are not challenges per se, but gifts.  Ask yourself, what if you were given the gift of an eraser for your chalkboard.  What if you were forced by some event or challenge to wipe that future clean and start from scratch?  And, how about this?  What if you didn’t wait until that car crash or divorce or disease to slap you up-side the head?  What if you started now and designed this cycle of renewal into your life?  All interesting questions.  But what action can we take?  It’s up to you.  There’s lots of tools out there for facilitating direction changes.  I would suggest having an adventure before the summer is over.  Take a leap.  I don’t know what an adventure is for you.  Maybe it’s hiking the Appalachian Trail.  Maybe it’s taking a sabbatical to work in a homeless shelter.  Maybe it’s writing that book that’s been kicking around in your head. Maybe it’s a road trip across the country with your kids (god help you). Maybe it’s walking into your boss’s boss’ office and saying “I have a plan!”.  Large or small.  Take a leap.  Schedule an adventure in the next 3 months.  Large or small.  And let us know what it is.   Cause some chaos in your life…and I’ll see you out there.  Closing comments Support my Hood-to-Coast Relay for Cancer Research - https://give.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-research Http://www.marathonbq.com http://runrunlive.com/my-books  

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-314 – Bonnie Talks Easy Yoga  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4314.mp3] Link epi4314.mp3 Support my Hood-to-Coast Relay for Cancer Research - https://give.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-research Intro Bumper: Hello and welcome to episode 4-314 of the RunRunLive podcast.  Yes it's been a month… or two fortnights… since you last received a RunRunLive podcast.   But now, your wait is over.  As you sleep I have silently packaged up another greasy ball of endurance sports content and slid it down the pipes of the internet to your electronic familiar.   And it's been a weird month indeed.  In my last missive from the field I told you how I had lost my computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that I have been using since last November.  And how with that missing computer went all the files for Episode 4-313 – ‘the lost masterpiece'.   This week, two weeks later, after I had gotten a new Surface, procured all the magic software that I require for my clandestine audio wrangling and tickled my ganglia into producing today's replacements show – Delta sent my old one back to me.   Yeah, I got it back.  So next week I'll double down and release the stillborn Episode 4-313.  It will be our little game of time travel!  What's crazy is how attached I am to my devices. When I lost it, it was like losing a friend.  I went through, denial, anger, grief and acceptance – then it shows up!  My training has been epic over the last couple weeks.  I'm back on the Mountain Bike and back in the water and back on the trails.  As you didn't hear in the missing episode I decided to get off the road marathon merry go round and have some fun this summer.  And fun I am having by the bucket load.  I signed up for an Olympic Triathlon in Mid-July.  Is that where I line up with nations from all over the world and march around the infield representing my country in full splendor?  No, it's not. It's about a mile swim, a 22 mile bike ride and a 10K.  Twice as long as a sprint tri.   Swimming is my weakest sport.  Weakest is probably the wrong phraseology.  Swimming is the part where I have the least racing confidence.   I've been trying to get into the pool and do some drills because I haven't swum at all for almost two years.   Last Saturday Coach had a 1700 yard pool workout on the schedule with a 2 hour bike.  It was a nice day so I decided to just go down to the pond and do it as a brick.  (Meaning do an open water swim in the pond and then take my mountain bike out for a tour.)   I eyeballed the pond and guessed it was probably 1/3 of a mile across.   I got my wetsuit on and set out.  After I warmed up I fell into a nice rhythm.  The pond is still cold enough to be comfortable, maybe 75 degrees. The water was black and murky and full of pollen, and I was basically looking at nothing.  The sky was overcast so the sun wasn't in my eyes when I rolled to breathe.   When I had been doing a lot of pool work a couple years ago when that Plantar Fasciitis sidelined me, I managed to work out a 3-stroke alternate breathing pattern. Stroke – Stroke – Stroke – Breathe Right, 1 2 – 3 Breathe Left, and so on.   Miracles of miracles this seems to have corrected most of my slice.  When I sighted I was swimming fairly true towards the horizon.  (With My old 2-stroke cadence I basically swam in a circle and had to site and correct constantly.   The cold water flowed by in a murky silence.  Dark and deep.  The grey skies muffled the world outside my goggles.  The tri-wet-suit kept me easy, balanced and true in the water.  The ear plugs completed the deprivation.  I fell into a deep meditative practice and pulled silently across the lake.   When I got close to the end I turned around and pulled back.  There was a bit of a head wind and a little chop on the return but I was relaxed and strong, considering it was like my 3rd time in the water in 2 years.   I had stuffed my Garmin under my swim cap to see if I could at least get the distance estimate.  It won't pick up your HR through the water, but it will track the GPS, and if you put it under your cap it gets jostled around less.   When I climbed out of the water at the town beach feeling tired but settled I checked the watch.  According to Mr. Garmin I had been in the water for 56 minutes and had swum 1.49 miles.  Really? I was blown away! Even if it was off by 30% that was a hell of a swim for my 3rd time in the water.   I hopped on my 29er and rode the trails for another 2 hours – for a heck of a workout.   So the lesson, my friends, is that your body doesn't forget the training.  Once you have the endurance engine and the endurance mindset it doesn't go away.  I rolled out tools that I trained into my body in the winter of 2013 – and my machine remembered them.  I hope that Oly lets us wear wetsuits.  My two-piece leopard print bikini just has too much drag.   … I went out for a run the next day in the trails.  I was supposed to do like 1:45.  I've started taking Buddy for a first 2 ish mile loop, then I stick him back in the house and go out for the rest.  He's getting old and his hips bother him  20 minutes is enough to get him some exercise but not wreck him.  I'm pumping up this little hill on the trails behind my house, with my hat on, my head down and my headphones in, lost in the run and WHAM! I take an overhanging oak tree right off the noggin like somebody hit me with a 2 x 4.   There I am laying on the trail seeing stars and I feel bits of teeth in my mouth! This tree fell across the trail about 5.5 feet off the ground and I ran right into it.  When I hit it it jammed my jaws and broke a couple of my teeth! Crazy.  So I took the dog home, put the tooth pieces on my desk and went out and finished the run.  No worse for wear but I did have to visit the dentist and get a bunch of teeth bonded up.  Tuesday I ran 1:45 with my buddy Bob in the land locked forest and Wednesday I rode my mountain bike the 18 miles to work and back.  I feel like superman but I'm beat! I love summer! I love multisport training!  We've got a great show for your today.  I have a chat with Bonnie Kissinger, triathlete, mom, engineer and Yoga instructor.  I used Bonnie's yoga routines for my Boston training this year.  I think it helped and I definitely learned some new tricks.  (Old dog – new tricks).  I wanted to plumb her thoughts on the current popularity of yoga and meditation and how we can make it more accessible for every day runners like you and me.   In the first section I'll chat about how beginning runners can find the time to start their fitness routines.  In the second section I'll review a book I read last week called “The Art of Work” – that is about how to find your calling.  Everything is cool.  It's summertime and the living is easy.  The catfish are jumpin and the cotton is high.   On with the show! Section one - Running Tips Finding time to start running - http://runrunlive.com/creating-space-in-your-life-to-start-running http://runrunlive.com/back-to-basics-how-to-become-a-runner-from-scratch Voices of reason – the interviews Bonnie Kissinger http://bonniekissinger.com/ Coach Bonnie Kissinger is a 500 RYT and mechanical engineer, specializing in yoga for athletes. She is also a certified health coach and Ironman Triathlete. With 10 years of experience teaching yoga and focusing on functional movements in yoga, her instruction focuses on cultivating more balance within joints and better kinetic movements. 30 Min Hamstring Y Class:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RawDwT_00 Meditation 101:  Lesson 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slILB--WCds Triangle Chat:  http://bonniekissinger.com/online-yoga/ http://bonniekissinger.com/online-yoga/ Section Two – Life Lessons The Art of Work - http://runrunlive.com/the-art-of-work Outro OK My friends, you lucky devils, you herd of catastrophically fortunate humans, you got to the end of the episode 4-314 of the RunRunLive Podcast and next week, if all goes according to plan I'll post-date-launch episode 4-313 with some sleight of hand, so that future generations will never know there was a gap! Re-writing history we are.   As it turns out, I'm racing this weekend.  Getting up at the crack of dawn on Sunday and driving down to Plymouth for the Mayflower Brewery ½ marathon.  I'm treating it as a tempo run, not a race.  I haven't been training for road racing – so I just have to not hurt myself and get a little exercise with friends.  My heart seems to be working ok.  With the multisport I don't drive as much direct stress into it but it seems to be staying in zone 2 well and it recovers very quickly from efforts.  There's an AFib support group on Facebook that Paula pointed me to.  It seems that this malady is quite common.   You might say Chris, you're pushing it too hard, but the multisport training is more of an overall body stressor than a heart stressor. It's actually quite well balanced. I'm not worried about it or giving it much attention at this point – I'm just having fun.  You know what else is really prevalent?  Cancer!  That's why I'm continuing to support cancer research this summer.  I set up a page for the Hood to Coast Relay.  The link is in the show notes.  I'm still fleshing out my campaign, but any donation you can make helps.  Cancer sucks.   Also I n the show notes are links to a few of Bonnie's yoga videos that I used, and continue to use, in my training.  Check out her site and the resources she has there.   It is summertime! I've already started harvesting salad from my garden.  My hops, my berry crops, my herbs and my beans are all thriving.  My peppers and tomatoes are a bit sad, I'll have to give them some chemical encouragement this weekend.  But my biggest success is the new potato box that we are experimenting with.  You build a simple board box, with 4 upright posts and flat boards up the sides.  I made mine 4 X 4 – which is a little large in retrospect.   You start by putting one row of boards on – so in my case like 8 inches high.  You fill that up with soil and plant your potato sets.  As the potatoes grow you add boards and soil so the box keeps getting higher.  I'm up to 4 boards now with no sign of stopping.  I'm going to have 300 pounds of potatoes.   In theory, you are supposed to be able to remove the bottom boards and harvest from the bottom.  We'll see how that works.  That seems to run counter to Newton's laws.  But, I'll try.  You have to keep learning new things.   I guess that's what scares me or disappoints me about this heart problem.  It might mean I have to stop going longer, deeper and harder in my sports pursuits.  To me that means a curtailing of adventure.  I don't do all this stuff for achievement, I do it for adventure.  That's the itch that needs to be scratched. That's how I'm wired.  I like to learn.  As they say in the business world; “I'm a hunter, not a farmer.” How about you?  When was the last time you tried something new?  Something outside your routine?  Something that forced you to learn?  Something that, maybe, scared you a bit?   How are you positioned to rise to a new challenge?  What would you do if you lost your laptop? How would you react if you learned you had a heart problem or something worse? These people in this AFib FaeceBook Group are very scarcity and fear focused.  They bemoan all the things they can't do.  Like a recent post where a bunch of them gave up sex due to fear of triggering a heart-racing episode – (which is kinda what sex is about, no?)  All they can focus on is loss because they started with the wrong mindset.  They were never comfortable with what they had to begin with.  They weren't grateful for what they had. With this existing negative mindset they are less capable to deal with any new challenges. They essentially see their heart problem as a confirmation of their negativity bias.  “See? I told you life sucks!”  What if, and stay with me here, you instead saw your life and everything in it as a gift? How would that position you to deal with new challenges? Would, you maybe see them as opportunities?  Opportunities to break with the old, embrace a new beginning and rewrite the future?  Maybe these things, as we have heard from so many challenged athletes on this show over the years, are not challenges per se, but gifts.  Ask yourself, what if you were given the gift of an eraser for your chalkboard.  What if you were forced by some event or challenge to wipe that future clean and start from scratch?  And, how about this?  What if you didn't wait until that car crash or divorce or disease to slap you up-side the head?  What if you started now and designed this cycle of renewal into your life?  All interesting questions.  But what action can we take?  It's up to you.  There's lots of tools out there for facilitating direction changes.  I would suggest having an adventure before the summer is over.  Take a leap.  I don't know what an adventure is for you.  Maybe it's hiking the Appalachian Trail.  Maybe it's taking a sabbatical to work in a homeless shelter.  Maybe it's writing that book that's been kicking around in your head. Maybe it's a road trip across the country with your kids (god help you). Maybe it's walking into your boss's boss' office and saying “I have a plan!”.  Large or small.  Take a leap.  Schedule an adventure in the next 3 months.  Large or small.  And let us know what it is.   Cause some chaos in your life…and I'll see you out there.  Closing comments Support my Hood-to-Coast Relay for Cancer Research - https://give.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-research Http://www.marathonbq.com http://runrunlive.com/my-books  

Easy Yoga for Everybody. Healing blend of mind, body, and breath.

Easy Yoga for Everybody. Healing blend of mind, body, and breath.