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Strengthen Bones with Yoga & Diet

October 6, 2017 by Julie Lusk

Good to the Bone  is a Yoga Journal article about using yoga and diet to help with the prevention and treatment of bone loss (osteopenia – osteoporosis).  The article describes the yoga postures listed in the table below that increased bone strength in 85% of the study participants with a 10-minute sequence that was practiced for a 2-year period.  Each posture was held for only 20-30 seconds each. The article, Good to the Bone, is worth the read.  Here is the pilot study detailed in the article.

The Twelve-Minute Daily Yoga Regimen Reverses Bone Loss  is the full study that was published in Topics of Geriatric Rehabilitation, a peer-reviewed journal.  It followed 741 patients over a 10 year period.  It showed that yoga improved bone mineral density (BMD) in every-two-year follow-up study that followed.  Impressive, eh?  Watch the video below to get instructions on what to do along with more info on Dr Fishman’s book and CD.  Dr Fishman teaches a weekly zoom class where he teaches the 3 sequences for reversing bone loss.  It’s worth registering for.

The posture sequence below flows nicely and incorporates the recommended postures in the pilot study. It’s very important to practice a  combination of balancing postures and ones to strengthen bones and muscles.  The sequence can also be done in reverse order, beginning with the standing poses, ending lying down in the supine poses and Shavasana.    As always, remember to b-r-e-a-t-h-e fully and completely, slowly and deeply.  Get all the details here. 

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English Name Sanskrit Name Purpose
Bridge Pose Setu Bandha Sarvangasana Bone strength
Cobra Bhujangasana Bone and muscle strength
Locust Salabhasana
Bone and muscle strength
Sunbird

Alternate and hold arm and leg lifts from the Table Pose

Surya Bakāsanasana Bone strength and balance
 

Plank Pose (or variation)

Kumbhakasana

Bone strength and balance
Downward Facing Dog

 

Adho Mukha Svanasana Bone and muscle strength
Mountain Pose Tadasana Bone strength and balance
Chair Pose Utkatasana Bone strength
Tree Pose Vrksasana Bone strength and balance
Warrior Pose I

Virabhadrasana I

Muscle strength
Warrior Pose II Virabhadrasana II

Muscle strength
Relaxation Pose Savasana Strengthen bones, muscles, balance, and focus.

As usual, please consult your health care provider and a qualified yoga educator for their recommendations for your needs.  This is not intended to be a substitute for appropriate medical care.

Have fun and good luck!

Filed Under: Misc Musings, Yoga Tagged With: yoga for bone loss, yoga for bone strength

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Learn to play the Native American flute!  Lessons will get you off on a good note.

Focus on whatever you like.  We can cover the basics, embellishments, and how to improvise or learn songs.  We will follow your interests from there by delving deeper into playing the flute.  She can also get you started playing the reverie harp, tuning forks, tongue drums, and singing bowls.  It’s fun and fulfilling.

Lessons are 45-minutes in length.  They are given in-person and on Zoom.  Zoom lessons are recorded for you to download.

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About your Teacher

Julie loves music.  She started playing classical flute when the Lusks owned a music store many years ago.  She began playing Native American flutes about 10 years ago.  Before that, she took piano lessons from elementary school through college.

She delights in playing Native flutes for her yoga and meditation students and is happy to show others how to play joyfully. Julie also plays harmonium, Tibetan bowls, chimes, didgeridoo, drums, and the harp.  Julie was a Drums for Fun member for 15 years.

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  • Certified by the Sound Healing Academy (SHA) in the Foundations of Integral Sound Healing for Multi Instruments – Level 1. The course covered how to give individual and group sound healing sessions. It included how to play singing bowls, tuning forks, gongs, chimes, frame drum, and voice.
  • The Art of Creating Sound Healing Journeys With the Power of the 5 Elements, a 7-week course by Bodhi Starwater/Setchko
  •  Shamanic Music Medicine, a 7-week course by Laura Inserra.
  • Completed SHA’s 30-hour course in Integral Sound Healing with Tuning Forks and John Beaulieu’s 4-week tuning fork course.
  • Native American Flute lessons with Christine Stevens
    • Improvisional Flute for a Higher Purpose – 7 weeks
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    • 7 Scales for the Native American Flute to Create Joy, Musical Magic and Spiritual Growth – 7 weeks
    • Sacred Sounds Flute – 28 weeks
    • Awakening through Sound – 7 weeks
    • Deepen your Flute Journey – 8 weeks
    • The Flute as Sound Medicine – 7 weeks
  • Classical flute lessons with Deborah Kemper, Barbara Holiday, Susan Todenhoff, Sheri Barbour,  Arpi Anderson, Suzanne Teng, and others
  • Awaken & Celebrate your Sacred Voice to Come Home to your Authentic Self by the Brothers Koren – 7 weeks

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Details 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing – Volume 1

30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing – Volume 1

by Julie Lusk

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Are you looking for a handy relaxation, imagery and meditation book for stress relief? Here's the perfect eBook! Help yourself and lead others with these scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization & more. Easy-to -follow scripts are here to * Achieve deep, positive relaxation * Benefit from stress relief * Healing guided imagery * Awaken intuition * Increase self growth and understanding. CLICK the green title link to find out more...
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“I use this book at work to run meditation groups. It is very diverse so that I have many choices to chose from based on my client population. I had another copy of it but used it so much it finally fell apart, this is a replacement.”  Posted July 28, 2009, 10:44 AM EST
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  • Achieve deep, positive relaxation
  • Benefit from stress relief
  • Healing guided imagery
  • Awaken intuition
  • Increase self growth and understanding

Table of Contents for 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery, and Inner Healing

Volume 1

by Julie Lusk
Whole Person Associates

Becoming Relaxed

Feeling calm, relaxed, and centered is a foundation for any guided meditation. In fact, relaxation is healing in and of itself.

Physically relaxing the body first, before using guided imagery, increases people’s ability to concentrate and allows their minds, hearts, and spirits to be more open to the meditation. A feeling of harmony often results.

For many people relaxation is a new experience. It is important that people practice the physical form of relaxation and spend ample time with it until feeling relaxed becomes natural and easy.

The exercises in this section focus on physical relaxation. Use them on their own or combine them with an imagery exercise from one of the other sections.

  • Progressively Relaxing while Sitting in a Chair
    Designed for people sitting in chairs, this progressive relaxation exercise focuses on tensing and relaxing the different muscle groups. (20 minutes)
  • Breathing for Relaxation and Health
    Effective relaxation requires proper breathing. In this script, participants concentrate on their breathing by focusing on what their bodies are doing as they take in deep breaths, hold them, and slowly exhale. (10 minutes)
  • 1 to 10
    In this brief script, participants lie on their backs and tense their muscles as they count from 1 to 10, then release the tension as they count back down to 1. (5 minutes)
  • The Magic Ball
    In this visualization script, participants imagine they each possess a magic ball that travels over, under, and through their bodies, relaxing their muscles as it goes. (20 minutes)
  • Total Relaxation
    An eclectic introduction to some of the most popular relaxation techniques, Total Relaxation includes breathing, progressive relaxation, visualization, and body scanning. Use a part or all of this script as a short relaxation exercise prior to a guided meditation in one of the other sections of the book. (10 minutes)

Nature and the Environment
Being connected to the natural world–the ocean, forest, sky, and mountains–is for most people both relaxing and healthy. The guided meditations in this section help people find their connection with the natural world and thereby learn about forgiveness and love.

Note: Before beginning any script, describe to the participants what images you will use. If they make anyone feel uncomfortable, select an alternate script.

  • The Sea
    In this script, participants relax by taking an imaginary journey along a beach, listening to the birds and waves and watching a brilliant sunset. (5 minutes)
  • Simply Sailing
    In this script, participants imagine setting sail from a quiet dock, experiencing the sea with all its beauty and challenges, and reaching an island paradise. They are invited to release unnecessary personal ìbaggageî and return to the dock with a newfound energy. (25 minutes)
  • A Day in the Life of Another Creature
    In this relaxation and visualization script, participants let go of tension and then explore the wildlife found around a pond, first through the perspective of an animal or insect, and then from the human perspective. (20 minutes)
  • The Beach
    In this script, participants imagine they are on vacation, strolling along a quiet ocean beach, free of the usual daily pressures and hassles. (5 minutes)
  • Flying with the Eagle
    In this script for kids (and for the young-at-heart), participants leave their homes through a secret door, travel to the forest of a magnificent Mother Eagle, and go for a ride on her back. (15 minutes)
  • Oak Creek
    In this script, participants experience and feel a personal connection with the energy and the healing power of the earth and sky. (10 minutes)
  • The Night Sky
    In this script, participants imagine looking at the stars of a clear night sky and feeling their minds expand into the infinite expanse of space. (8 minutes)
  • Ocean Waves
    In this script, participants dissolve their worries and troubles by imagining they are listening to the rhythm of the ocean waves. (12 minutes)

Inner Answers
Taking the time to regularly explore and reflect upon the inner world of intuition, feelings, and thoughts can be uplifting and is a sure path to personal, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth.

The guided meditations in this section help people get in touch with their intuitive inner selves so that they may find answers to lifeís questions from within.

  • Your Inner Adviser
    In this meditation, participants have a conversation with their inner advisor to develop their intuitionómaking decisions based on gut feelings rather than on reactions to social influence. (18 minutes)
  • Fortune Cookies
    In this script, participants tap into their intuitive selves by imagining that they are reading messages contained in fortune cookies. (12 minutes)
  • Your Inner Child
    In this script, participants get to know, communicate with, and learn from their inner child. (5 minutes)
  • Time Travel: So What Do You Want to Do for A Living?
    In this script, participants imagine the future to discover potential career paths and living conditions. (20 minutes)

Healing
Integrating the mind, body, emotions, and spirit opens up vast inner resources of intuition, wisdom, and personal power.

So many of us live as if fragmented–thinking of one thing, saying something else, acting one way publicly, while feelings, moods, and emotions provide a constantly changing and inconsistent undertow.

The guided meditations in this section focus on using the mind to heal the body and emotions and to bring thoughts, words, actions, and feelings into harmony and alignment.

  • Love, Joy, and Optimism
    In this guided meditation, participants journey down a private path; encounter their own personal guide and shadow; feel love, joy, hope, and optimism; and learn to accept themselves no matter what is going on in their lives. (30 minutes)
  • Healing Yourself and the Universe
    In this script, participants relax and feel protected as past hurts and negativity are released and forgiven through the experience of being surrounded by a healing, loving light. (20 minutes)
  • Sun Meditation for Healing
    In this script, participants experience the healing power and energy of the sun as they imagine it warming and relaxing them. (5 minutes)
  • Vitamin T Imagery
    In this script, participants absorb Vitamin T, the nurturing nutrient found in healthy touch, by imagining they are receiving a massage. (18 minutes)
  • Food for Thought: Imagery for Weight Control
    In this script, participants learn to think differently about food, about dieting, and about themselves by stimulating their ability to make informed choices. This script is designed to take the struggle out of weight loss and weight maintenance while increasing the joy that should accompany positive changes. (15 minutes)
  • Breastfeeding
    In this guided meditation, mothers visualize the miraculous nursing process while nursing their babies. (10 minutes)

Personal Growth
Using imagery to encourage self-esteem, offer positive affirmations, focus on personal growth and development, and increase people’s ability to imagine sights, sounds, and other physical sensations are the main goals of these guided meditations.

  • Addiction to Wellness
    In this script, participants seek physical, mental, psychological, and spiritual wellness. Positive self-esteem is nurtured. (10 minutes)
  • Body Image Visualization
    In this visualization script, participants picture their own body images and practice positive affirmations to promote self-esteem and inner beauty. (25 minutes)
  • OM Visitation
    In this script, participants meditate on the word ìOMî to help them connect with people they love, but who are far away. (5 minutes)
  • The Blue Period
    In this empowerment script, participants observe their lives to discover trends and patterns that are occurring. This script parallels the way an art historian might look at a painterís life. For example, Picasso had his Blue Period, Pink Period, Cubist Period, and a dozen other periods throughout his life. Your life passes through phases as well. (20 minutes)
  • You Are a Child Again
    In this script, participants imagine they are children again. Children who have fun playing and moving, are confident and self-assured, and unconditionally loved. (5 minutes)
  • Flower Meditation
    In this visualization script, participants increase their ability to imagine seeing, touching, smelling, and feeling. (20 minutes)
  • A Meditation of a World Vision
    In this guided meditation, participants experience their connection to the life-force of the universe by lying on the ground and imagining the earth ís energy coming through them. (15 minutes)

PRINT BOOK: 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing - Volume 1 - Print Edition
PRINT BOOK: 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing - Volume 1 - Print Edition
Are you looking for a handy relaxation, imagery and meditation book for stress relief? Here's the perfect book! Help yourself and lead others with these scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization & more. Easy-to -follow scripts are here to * Achieve deep, positive relaxation * Benefit from stress relief * Healing guided imagery * Awaken intuition * Increase self growth and understanding. CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...
Quantity:  
Price: $29.95

EBOOK Edition: 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing - Volume 1 - eBook Edition
EBOOK Edition: 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing - Volume 1 - eBook Edition
Are you looking for a handy relaxation, imagery and meditation book for stress relief? Here's the perfect eBook! Help yourself and lead others with these scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization & more. Easy-to -follow scripts are here to * Achieve deep, positive relaxation * Benefit from stress relief * Healing guided imagery * Awaken intuition * Increase self growth and understanding. CLICK the green title link to find out more...
Quantity:  
Price: $21.95
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