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Yoga for Lupus: A Complete Guide to Safe and Effective Practice
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Yoga for Lupus: A Complete Guide to Safe and Effective Practice

Recently, a student asked me if yoga could help her friend who has lupus. (Spoiler alert: yes, it can!) As I started sharing my thoughts, I realized this topic deserved more than a quick response – there was so much I wanted to say about how yoga can support people living with autoimmune conditions that…

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Beyond Quick Fixes: How Yoga Really Helps Manage Chronic Pain

Have you ever come across headlines like “5 Yoga Poses to Cure Your Back Pain!” or “One Simple Stretch to End All Your Aches!”? If you’re dealing with chronic pain, I bet these catchy titles have caught your eye more than once. And why wouldn’t they? The promise of a quick fix is so tempting…

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Tuning In: The Art of Self-Awareness in Yoga
Yoga off the Mat | Yoga Therapy

Tuning In: The Art of Self-Awareness in Yoga

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Have you ever wondered why we pause so often in our yoga classes? Why I ask you to “check in” with your body before we begin, during those moments of stillness between poses, and again at the end of our practice? If you’ve been to my classes, you know what I’m talking about. We start…

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A diagram of Lifelong Yoga's 4 Core Pillars: Alignment, functional movement, therapeutic sequencing, and the breath.
Yoga Therapy | Yoga for Healthy Aging

Lifelong Yoga’s 4 Core Pillars

4 Core Pillars for Optimal Health and Vibrance At Lifelong Yoga, there’s a focus on 4 Core Pillars for Optimal Health and Vibrance: Alignment, Functional Movement, The Breath, and Therapeutic Sequencing. These four pillars are present in every group class I teach, every 1:1 yoga session, and every online program. Pillar #1: Alignment Find YOUR…

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4 Reasons to Try 1:1 Yoga Therapy

Group yoga classes aren’t for everyone, especially if you have unique goals or limitations. Enter private yoga therapy—a tailored approach that focuses solely on you! In this post, I’m highlighting four reasons to consider yoga therapy for a truly personalized yoga practice. You’ll see how this individualized attention can be a game changer for your…

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What is yoga therapy and who is a yoga therapist? Mikah works with a 1:1 yoga therapy client using yoga props.
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What is Yoga Therapy? (And How it Can Help You)

Wondering what yoga therapy is, what a yoga therapy session involves, and if yoga therapy might be helpful for you? Here’s all the information you need to know – and how to get started. What is yoga therapy? As a growing number of people seek out alternative treatments to address their health concerns, yoga’s popularity…

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You may not think of stretching your hamstrings as You may not think of stretching your hamstrings as an important move for bone health. But it really is!

These 12 poses were used in one of Dr. Loren Fishman’s studies exploring yoga and bone health in adults with osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Today’s pose: Reclining Hand to Big Toe (Supta Padangusthasana)
(Pose 8 of 12!)

This pose uses your lifted leg as a lever, which creates pressure on the femur, the hip, and the lower back. That leverage is what makes it bone-loading, not just a hamstring stretch.

And here’s where the hamstring piece becomes really important:

Tight hamstrings can pull on the pelvis and tuck it under, which rounds the lower spine. For anyone with osteoporosis, that rounded-spine position is one of the things we most want to avoid. 

So lengthening the hamstrings supports better pelvic and spinal alignment overall, on and off the mat.

A few notes on the pose:

✅ I’m using a belt around the ball of my foot in the video. 

✅ Start with your knee bent, then slowly straighten the leg as much as feels right today.

✅ Keep your head and shoulders relaxed down onto the mat.

Yoga can be one of the most supportive practices for people with osteoporosis…as long as you know how to approach it.

And that’s what I’m teaching inside my upcoming course, Strong Bones, Safe Yoga. Which poses to avoid, which to modify, and how to practice safely.

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(Early access + best pricing.)
If you only have time for one yoga pose for your b If you only have time for one yoga pose for your bones, this one might be it. (Honestly, it’s one of my favorites!)

These 12 poses were used in one of Dr. Loren Fishman’s studies exploring yoga and bone health in adults with osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Today’s pose: Bridge
(Pose 7 of 12!)

Bridge is special because it loads three skeletal areas at once: your spine, your pelvis, and both femurs. It strengthens the back body, and opens the front of the chest (the area that tends to round forward with age).

So you’re strengthening and opening in the same pose. A lot of “bang for your buck” 😄

Fishman specifically notes that this pose targets the parts of the spine where compression fractures most often occur.

Try one of these arm variations shown in the video:

1️⃣ Arms bent to 90 degrees with palms facing in.

2️⃣ Hands clasped behind the back, arms pressing down into the mat.

I’m currently creating a new mini-course called Strong Bones Safe Yoga, all about knowing exactly which poses to avoid, which to modify, and how to practice safely.

💪 Comment STRONG and I’ll send you the link to get on the priority interest list.
(Early access + best pricing.)
This pose looks simple, but the side body, deep co This pose looks simple, but the side body, deep core, and the muscles along the spine are all working.

Your muscles respond to controlled effort. When you hold a shape and move through it slowly, those muscles work the whole time to keep you steady. That sustained effort builds real strength without pounding your spine or your joints.

I always say: The slower you move, the stronger you become. 

Strength is one of the 5 pillars of movement longevity I build every Lifelong Yoga practice around, and it gives you a foundation that makes everything else you do feel safer.

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If you're over 50 and balance is something you've If you're over 50 and balance is something you've been thinking about, this is the simplest way to understand why it matters so much.

Balance training is one of the most underrated forms of fracture prevention. Standing poses on one leg. Weight shifts. Eyes-open vs eyes-closed. Moving through transitions on different planes. All of it counts.

It's one of my five pillars of movement longevity, and we work on it every single week inside Lifelong Yoga Online.

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