Wellness Haven Yoga

Tag: Chair Yoga

  • I Need Help!

    I Need Help!

    Wellness Haven is here to help you!


    “I am a stay-at-home mom. I do not exercise. At the most I walk sometimes. I also do not eat very well. I do not lead a very healthy life. I am lacking in self esteem. My confidence level is at its lowest. I don’t feel interested in anything. All I spend time in is cooking, cleaning and taking care of my family. I feel unfulfilled. I don’t feel happy. I need help!”

    If you also relate to the above, you are not alone! This is where many stay-at-home women in their forties are and feel trapped in their unhealthy state of living.  Their children aren’t quite as young that they are completely busy and yet are not grown enough to feel released from responsibilities of still running around.  More than anything, they do not know where to begin. They need expert but compassionate and caring guidance and support to extricate them out of their current chaos. We at Wellness Haven specialize in bringing back health and joy  into the lives of such women who themselves need nurturing, through tools like yogic stretching, strengthening, balancing, breathing and meditation as well as healthy eating habits.

    “I am a mother of 2 young children. I also work full time. I do not get time for myself at all. I want to exercise but I have not been able to. I want to eat right but do not know where to begin. I am tired all the time. I need help!”

    If you are someone like the above, you are also not alone. Young working mothers in their thirties, lead a very stressful life. They are unable to figure out how to get their lives back in such a way that they can also take care of themselves. At Wellness Haven we have a program to suit every person’s need for we run classes, group and private, 7 days a week at various times in a day. We guide you to maximize your time so that you are there at work, with your family and also spend some nurturing time for yourself.

    “I am retired. I did not take care of myself very well with my always busy schedule before retirement and now I have joint pain, my muscles are stiff and I am not flexible. I also am unable to balance without support. I need help!”

    These are women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who are very ready to bring health gently into their lives and we are here for them when they need us. No matter what your age, we have the help you need through expert guidance.

    “I should be happy but I am not! I have a good husband, beautiful children, a nice home, and we are financially secure. BUT I am not happy! Something is missing. I need help!”

    These are women who may or may not be working, but they have crossed the busy parts of their lives which involved getting married, having children, working at jobs, acquiring 1 or 2 homes. They are at a standstill and searching for the joy that seems to have left! We at Wellness Haven help you find your way back to yourself through support and guidance and getting you to come closer to who you are.

    “Now that I am in my forties, I feel I have become more sensitive in my friend circle. I get hurt even though I try to reason with myself. I do not enjoy the irrelevant conversations that go on at parties. There is too much conversation around, clothes and jewelry and things which do not please me any more. I want to be happy again! I need help!”

    These are women who have done with superficial conversation with friends and want to get their life back on track with healthy living through yoga, breathing, meditation and clean eating. We at Wellness Haven have been very successful with our 3 month guidance program, “Jump-Start Your Life“.

  • Gentle Yoga

    Gentle Yoga

    Gentle Yoga

    It is with great pleasure I am writing this post, for 2014 is the year I visited my parents in India and it urged me to introduce Gentle Yoga at Wellness Haven.

    My mom is 75 and my dad is 83. I knew that both had started doing Gentle Stretches on recommendation form their doctors and were keeping in much better health than before their exercises.

    Summer of 2014 is when I visited my parents for a month. I observed them doing their exercises. I especially paid attention as my mom showed me all the yogic stretches that she had been practicing for some months and had experienced great benefits. The fact that she was able to avoid the lower spine surgery that had been previously prescribed by doctors who were not practicing alternative care, was a huge life transforming event for my mother. She had taken a second and a third opinion and found that there was a way to heal without surgical intervention.

    Besides help at the doctor’s facility, my mother started following all the stretch routines they prescribed for her and her health improved. I used this visit with my parents to formulate a Gentle Yoga Class with many of the stretches that she was doing and including many others I knew would benefit those who had never exercised before, those who had some trouble bending their knees, those who were unable to sit for too long without back support. The outcome was a Gentle Yoga Class at Wellness Haven.

    Over weeks and months since it started, it had become a very robust class and is very well liked by Wellness Haven Students. The interesting part is that it is liked by ALL – those who are beginning practitioners, those who are not used to yoga as well as those who have been practicing yoga for months in other Wellness Haven Yoga Classes! It is for EVERYONE.

    I communicate with my mom on a regular basis telling her about what we are doing in the class and she continues to share all that she is learning.  A few days ago my mom shared  some more moves that she had started on after her recent visit to her physical therapist and I included that in my Gentle Yoga Class. I told my students what I was introducing and who it had come from and what resulted was a beautiful spontaneous recording of their delightful messages to my mom, that can be heard in the recording pasted below.

     

     

    Are you someone who would like to exercise every part of your body from head to toe?
    Are you someone who has difficulty sitting on the mat without support?
    Are you someone who has knee conditions preventing from bending knees in tedious asanas?

    Whether you have any ailments or have none at all, Gentle Yoga proves to be a full body workout class, without being tedious on the body.
    Don’t let the word Gentle fool you, for it has been named for the simple reason that it is effective for all cases. Experience the class for yourself to see how effective this is. For class schedule visit: Class Schedule

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  • Chair Yoga

    Chair Yoga

     

    Chair Yoga

    What does chair yoga mean?

    It means that there is no excuse for not exercising your body through Yoga whether you are at home, at a yoga school, or at your office!

    It also means that there is help for those who are unable to sit flat on the mat without the support of the wall or those who can’t be on their knees or wrists.

    Here are just some of the yoga stretches that I like to do on a chair:

    1. Sitting on a chair and twisting your body on one side and then the other.
    2. Extending your legs in front of you and back, repeating a few times.
    3. Eagle arms while sitting and bending over the knee.
    4. Siting Mountain pose as you extent your arms up.
    5. Extending arms sideways and then twisting your body on both sides.
    6. Extending your arms behind you and interlacing fingers for a deeper shoulder stretch.
    7. A pigeon pose right on your chair as you take your leg to make a four with your other thigh and bending over.
    8. Using straps to stretch and dumbbells  to build your muscles while sitting is so simple.

    Yes there are no excuses.

    For the determined, everything is possible no matter where you are and how much time you have in your hands. ~ Umang Goel

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