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“I believe in the power of yoga,” says MPC YOGA FOR ALL founder Michele Priddy. “I have seen lives change, including my own, in deep, transformative and real ways.” Michele, who holds a Master’s degree in Special Education from Middle Tennessee State University and certification as a RYT-500 from Yoga Alliance, has more than two decades of experience helping adults and children of all ages and abilities reach their maximum potential. Her highly-individualized yoga classes, workshops and in-service training programs are more than just opportunities to for her students to move: they are transformational experiences made even richer by Michele’s deep understanding of yoga movement, breath work and philosophy coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. In addition to teaching yoga at Middle Tennessee’s most respected yoga schools, Michele has led workshops for children with disabilities, teachers, social service workers, parents and others on a variety of topics including Yoga for Children, Yin Yoga, Mindfulness, Adaptive Yoga and Vinyasa Flow.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Yoga for Postural Imbalances

Ballet dancers have it. So do serious practitioners of pilates, tai chi, and yoga. Those who sit parked in front of computer screens all day? Not so much.

The “it’’ is good posture, and many of us aren’t practicing it these days; posture-related muscle aches and injuries — serious enough to cause missed days of work — occur in more than 600,000 Americans a year, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. And anyone who spends more than 95 percent of their workday sitting is at risk.

Sure, the days of balancing books on our head went by the wayside along with finishing schools and castor oil, and parents now focus more on their children’s grades and after-school activities than their carriage. But some experts yearn for a return to those previous times.

The rest of the story:
http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-23/lifestyle/29574829_1_tai-chi-posture-notebook-computers

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