Yoga classes, workshops and events in Oak Ridge, TN

Regular exercise can ease the symptoms of fibromyalgia dramatically, reducing muscle pain and the number of tender points, knocking out depression and insomnia, even cutting through so-called “fibrofog” for increased mental clarity.

Yoga is a particularly effective form of exercise for those with fibromyalgia, for it provides stretches for stiffness, strength building, aerobic exercise, and tools for relaxation. In fact, the Mayo Clinic includes yoga as one of the best things people with fibromyalgia can do for themselves.

For a long time, fibromyalgia, like bipolar disorder, was considered a “garbage diagnosis,” and many doctors treated their patients almost as if they were making up their symptoms because the doctors could not find an objective cause for the discomfort.

It is now clear that many fibromyalgia symptoms stem from a very real and measurable cause: low levels of serotonin, one of several neurotransmitters responsible for mood and adaptation to stress.

Muscle soreness results directly from an imbalance in neurological and endocrine functions.

Though muscle soreness is the main symptom of the syndrome, it is certainly not the only one. Other symptoms include disturbed sleep patterns, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and feelings of numbness in the extremities.

A number of conditions tend to co-occur with fibromyalgia, including irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, mitral valve prolapse, and a great deal more.

Yoga can clearly help with the symptoms, and may someday prove to address the underlying causes of fibromyalgia as well.

To date, there is no published study on yoga’s ability to regulate serotonin levels. However, western medicine in recent years is proving over and again what the yogis have claimed all along — that yoga is a prescription for total health, not just in body, but also in mind and spirit.

Scientific studies in the last few years have shown yoga effective in regulating levels of GABA and melotonin, two other neurotransmitters linked to mood. In the endocrine system, a regular yoga practice is proven to help regulate insulin levels.

In particular interest to those with fibromyalgia, practicing yoga has also shown to regulate the production of cortisol, the stress hormone. Those with fibromyalgia often have high cortisol levels in the evening, when cortisol levels should be at their lowest.

Fibromyalgia sufferers are often told to avoid causes of stress, and all too often this leads to shrinking away from life and avoiding the very activities that used to bring joy. A gentle evening yoga practice may be just the antidote, helping lower cortisol levels and increase neurotransmitters like GABA which can lift mood.

I’m offering a workshop on yoga for fibromyalgia in Oak Ridge, TN on March 15, 2008. Please contact me for details.

Come to my free class at Yoga Haven this Wednesday, Oct. 17th if you can. You can read about it on my site, www.yogaknoxville.com.Note there’s also a new class Thursday mornings in Powell at 10 am.Tha…

I’m sorry to cancel the Tuesday Yoga for Recovery class until further notice.But I do have two new classes starting up:***The first class is Kripalu Yoga for Wellbeing and Weight Management. The clas…

If you teach yoga classes in Anderson or Roane Counties and have 200-hour teacher certification, I’d be happy to add a link to your site. Simply type your address in the comments section.

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Hey check it out — I’m in yesterday’s edition of the Oak Ridger. Well I was, I promise. Seems their online archive is funky.

The workshop at the Ayurveda Center in Oak Ridge, TN this past Saturday was fantastic. It was a pleasure working with Aubrey Sebastian, who was kind enough to share the stage… er, the hardwood floor…

Kripalu Yoga classes start this Wednesday at the Ayurveda Center for Natural Healthcare in Oak Ridge, TN.

This is a gentle yoga class, making it appropriate for beginners and experienced yoga practitioners who want to experience muscle toning, increased flexibility, deep relaxation, and the journey inward.

The class will run through the fall on Wednesdays from 10:00-11:30 am. Classes cost $15 drop-in or $100 for 8 sessions.

For more information, please call me at 865-368-8773.

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On the morning of Saturday, September 22, 2007, two free yoga workshops will take place at the Ayurveda Center for Natural Healthcare, 665 Emory Valley Road, Suite A, in Oak Ridge, TN.

The workshops are at 9:00 and 11:00. Both workshops will feature a Kripalu Yoga class by Santosh David Morgan and an Interdisciplinary Yoga class by Aubrey Sebastian.

We’re hosting this free morning of yoga in Oak Ridge, TN to build support for our fall yoga classes in Oak Ridge at the Ayurveda Center.

Hope to see you there!

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I have several new yoga classes starting this week as well as a free workshop next weekend, so I hope you can join me. Please forward this to any friends that might be interested.

First of all, starting this week I’m offering a Kripalu Yoga Moderate class from 10:00-11:30 Monday mornings at Well by Nature on Bearden Hill in Knoxville. I’m excited about this one — Kripalu Yoga pays attention to physical alignment but goes quickly “within” to check in with the flow of energy in your breath, thoughts, emotions, moving from the gross body and into your subtle body. Think of it as a moving meditation. Most people equate Kripalu Yoga as a very gentle style, but in this class we’re stepping it up a bit. Come prepared to chant, breathe, move, relax and meditate. Drop-in is $15, and class cards are available for discounted class rates.

Next — two more Kripalu Yoga classes Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-11:30 at Westside Unitarian Church in Farragut. It’s on the corner of Grigsby Chapel Rd. (same road as Parkside Dr. after it crosses Campbell Station) and Fretz Rd. We’re meeting in the sanctuary — really a beautiful space to practice yoga, with a high ceiling and big windows that let in lots of light. This particular class focuses on emotional wellbeing and how that plays into weight loss. So often people torture themselves while trying to lose weight, when really the first thing to do is learn to breathe deeply, relax, and start to accept, forgive, and love oneself. That’s the spiritual journey — and self-care grows directly out of this. The Tuesday class will be very gentle, and Thursdays will be somewhat more moderately paced. The classes are $10 ($8 seniors/students), but I’ll offer you a 2 for the price of 1 deal every time you bring someone new to class. We have a big, beautiful space and I want to fill it up.

Finally, next Saturday, Sept 22, Aubrey Sebastian and I are giving a free Kripalu and Interdisciplinary Yoga open house at the Ayurveda Center for Natural Healthcare in Oak Ridge, TN. We’ll hold the workshop twice, once from 9:00-10:30 and then again from 11:00-12:30, so take your pick of times. This workshop will be the “launch” of the Kripalu Yoga Gentle class I’ll be teaching at the center on Wednesdays from 10:00-11:30, which will cost $15 for drop-ins or $100 for 8 classes.

Please come and bring your friends!

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