“You’re a Miracle Worker”

Hi Stacy,

I wanted to let you know my back is feeling much better. There was only pain when I would stand up for a couple of days after our [cranial sacral] session. After walking a few steps, then no pain at all. There is mostly stiffness now, but again after walking a few steps everything is fine. I’ve been lifting lightly a couple of times this week and will continue to be careful, but I feel like I’m about 85-90% healed.

You’re a miracle worker! Thank you so much!

E

“Today’s class was phenomenal.”

Stacy,
Today’s class was phenomenal.
I express my Gratitude to you.
You are by far the most creative, most amazing yoga teacher
I have ever studied with. Each class I learn so much
and experience so much, and you are a font of ideas
for me to take into my own classes.
So the glory, like an act of kindness, gets passed along!
Besides this, you are a friend and colleague.
Love the compliments exercise in class today.
In Core Health, we learn to accept each compliment gracefully,
place it in our heart, and silently double it. Please do this!
Blessings,
Linn

Stacy,

Today’s class was phenomenal.

I express my Gratitude to you.

You are by far the most creative, most amazing yoga teacher

I have ever studied with. Each class I learn so much

and experience so much, and you are a font of ideas

for me to take into my own classes.

So the glory, like an act of kindness, gets passed along!

Besides this, you are a friend and colleague.

Love the compliments exercise in class today.

In Core Health, we learn to accept each compliment gracefully,

place it in our heart, and silently double it. Please do this!

Blessings,

Linn

Cranial Sacral Therapy and Recovery after M.S. Episode – The Case of S

I got a phone call from a woman this week who was here from the midwest.  She is an acupuncturist with multiple sclerosis.  After not experiencing an exacerbation for many years, she recently experienced an episode that rendered her right side paralyzed for a period of time.  This prevented her from working (obviously).  Over several weeks – using acupuncture as her primary healing method – she recovered to a great degree.  However, she was still experiencing substantial paralysis in her right dominant hand as well as pain during elevation of her right shoulder.  Following my intuition I balanced kidney, bladder, stomach, and gallbladder meridians in the lower body.  Then I moved onto lung, bladder, and small intestine meridians in the right upper body.  Next I did traditional techniques for the head as well as unwinding the eyes (affecting liver, stomach, bladder, kidney). 

Immediately following treatment she reported feeling relaxed and "more freed up" in her head.  She also had recovered full range of motion in her right arm without pain.  This morning I got a phone message from S telling me that later that evening, she felt a shift in her body and experienced an 80% recovery of the function in her right hand! 

When I get to be a part of results like this, it brings out a longing in me to see my own clients full-time again at my studio.  There is simply no other feeling like the one I get each time my techniques work – and they almost always work.  Oh economy, please recover so I can do this work all the time ….

 

Healing my Low Back Pain

I was clipping along pretty well there for a few months, getting chiropractic adjustments every two weeks, doing lots of yoga, enjoying a relatively pain-free existence.  Then I started my new job, which kicked my stress level up 200%, put my body in awkward positions, precluded me making it my chiropractic appointments, and limited my time for yoga practice.  Not surprisingly I worked myself into an episode of acute back pain that has lingered for several weeks. 

I started with chiropractics again with full faith this would resolve the issue.  It has not.  On Sunday as I was writing my pain course I realized I had not used my own methods!  I began to breathe from inside the pain in various positions.  I began to remind my back it is strong.  I began to practice back bends.  I began to stretch all the muscles around the back that have drawn up in protection.  I began to acknowledge all the energetic components of my pain – mourning my divorce, mourning leaving my marital home, leaving my pets, anticipating a move, moving forward in a new relationship to a new level of commitment.  My back began to heal that day and is continuing to do so.

I learned a lesson here.  Healer heal thyself!  Do everything for myself that I would do for another.  Be detached enough from my own stuff to see my own stuff.  Do my practices.

Yoga for Anxiety/Neck Pain

Anxiety and neck pain go hand in hand.  Anxiety results from lack of grounding.  And especially with a history of a neck injury, lack of grounding causes  tension to gather at the neck to cause neck pain. 

Today I had a client with both anxiety and neck pain.  In the assessment we discovered that he locks his knees constantly (an ungrounded way to stand), has a diminished sense of energy in his lower 4 chakras, and stands with his left leg turning out to the left.  His first assignment was to become aware of when he locks his knees and unlock them.  In terms of yoga, first I had him roll his feet on a tennis ball.  Then I had him practice mountain pose, spiraling his left thigh inward to stand with his feet parallel.  In mountain pose I instructed him to engage mulabandha, externally rotate the shoulders, and lift up on his breastbone while drawing the shoulder blades into the back.  He held this position for 10 breaths.  Next I had him practice warrior 1, warrior 2 (both done with hands on the hips), and lateral angle.  He reported at this juncture that his anxiety level had decreased from 6/10 to 2/10 and his neck pain from 5/10 to 3/10.  Next he did supta padagusthasana in a doorway, discovering his left hamstring, inner thigh,  and outer hip were tighter than his right.  After this series he reported that both his pain and anxiety were at 0/10.  The client had stated that he sleeps only 2-4 hours per night.  I gave him a tissue with Yland Ylang on it for savasana and lead him through whole body breathing.  The client was completely at ease when he left. 

Life Balance Yoga Teacher Training

Being a participant in the 2010 Life Balance Yoga Teacher Training Program was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I found myself in the midst of an extraordinary group of women.  We learned about yoga from the wonderful instructors, we learned about ourselves, and we learned from each other. The program was well designed by Stacy Renz, and well executed. The class schedule and workload was very manageable, and I believe the program is an exceptional value for the quality of training received. The instructors are very knowledgeable and experienced, and their guidance and support was invaluable. I highly recommend this program to anyone seeking a greater understanding of all things yoga, whether you plan to teach, or simply want to improve your personal practice. I guarantee you will be forever proud, and forever changed by your experience!

“You really have a gift …”

We had a nurturing group of participating students and intuitive caring teachers

Life Balance Yoga 200 Hr Certification

Although I had been practicing yoga for many years, I never really thought about myself as a yoga teacher. I didn’t have enough time to “go back to school”. I didn’t have the level of yoga experience to complete this course. It would be nice to take it, but why did I need it if I wasn’t planning on teaching? I had friends who taught wonderful yoga classes and they hadn’t found it necessary to have their certification. It would be too competitive. These were all my reasons why I didn’t need to take the certification. Why did I take it then?

The gods were with me in a variety of ways that brought me to the decision that it was the next step for me. If anything can go right it will! Funny how that happens.

We had a nurturing group of participating students and intuitive caring teachers. We shared ideas and learned from each other. We helped each other when we needed encouragement. We learned through our experiences and grew through the experience and feedback so generously offered by others. My own body alignment and posture has improved significantly from the techniques learned and practiced in this course. I am enjoying sharing what I know through teaching my own class and am grateful that I saw the opportunity for growth when it was presented to
me and took the chance!

Thank you!

Jane Arnold

“One of the best investments I have ever made in myself”

The main reason I chose Living Room Yoga's Life Balance 200 hour teacher training program was because of the program founder, Stacy Renz.  I knew in my heart that with Stacy's background in yoga and occupational therapy and her strong ethics the program would be well rounded, taught in a supportive environment with first-rate teachers (including Sally and Linn).  It was one of the best investments I have ever made in myself.  Along the journey in learning how to teach safe, creative yoga classes I learned a lot about myself.  Still undecided?  Take some time and meet with Stacy, Sally and/or Linn then follow your intuition and let your journey begin.  - Barb Afield

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