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5 Reasons Chair Yoga is Awesome
Yoga quite literally embodies change. You cannot have a practice without changing (your breath, your body, your perspective, your skin— sweat glands, yes), and it really happens no matter what that practice looks like. And— this year, for me? Yoga was all about remaining present - with breath, with all emotions and feelings, staying conscious/grounded even when I felt foggy or untethered— I practiced a lot off the mat. AND 2022 was the year after 2021, during which I was expecting, and very nauseous and ill, with a limited yoga practice.
Vertigo: An Origin Story
It will be eight years this year that my life was spun in a thousand different directions. What I now understand was an acute unilateral hypofunction of my right vestibular nerve led me to the ER after two days spent lying flat on my back staring at my non-stop-spinning studio apartment ceiling in NYC. I thought until then that I was really doing everything right. I had a great job, I was living in the big city, had my own place and a great social life. I didn't feel limited in any way and nothing was stopping me. Until 4 am on an idle Tuesday in 2012. Waking up to the room completely spinning, I rolled out of bed in a complete panic: "I just need to stand up", I thought. I just need to fix my eyes on something, "why is everything spinning?"