Try a Gentle Yoga for Low Back Care Class with Gail. Currently, I teach four public classes
Wednesdays at 12:30 PM CST – Wellness Living. Get an account, download the app, if using a smart device, and sign in and book a class at https://veteransyogaproject.org/vyp-classes
Wednesdays at 6:15 PM CST – In-person yoga class 45 minute beginners at Wesley UMC/Ned. Tx $5 with food ministry items or $10.
Fridays at 10:30 AM CST – Yoga at Lakeside at the Best Years Seniors Citizen Center in Beaumont Texas. $4 for non-residents for “vintage” persons.
Gail reads – “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” to her YogaKiddos through zoom, shared screen on Facebook Live on YogaKiddos Facebook Page.
Whew! Now that was a mouthful!
The Veterans Yoga Project people shared with us the procedure for doing a Zoom meeting, that could link up to your Facebook Live.
I typically read children’s books to my YogaKiddos at Wesley UMC Mothers Day Out Program. So how could I still do that, have the kids look at me at the same time, read the book, and do that on Facebook Live?
Hmmm, so I searched teachers sharing homework assignments, and being on camera at the same time.
Turns out, they use their iPhone as a document camera through the app Epoccam by Kinoni. Purchase the one without ads, and then download the drivers from Kinoni.
Then get your tripod, your book, your app linked to the same wifi as your laptop/desktop.
Do some manipulation of your account settings in Zoom, to allow Facebook Livestreaming.
Then Load the iphone app, get your camera angles to where you can read the book.
Start a Zoom meeting, Share your screen, pick Iphone screen, and wal lah!
My book, and me in the upper left hand corner, reading and doing kids Yoga poses!
Do the “more” button on Zoom, to broadcast to Facebook Live! Pick your page, and who is posting and you are set!
I then downloaded the video afterwards, and edited out the minute and a half off the front of the video in Youtube. Posted up on youtube, saved as a pinterest link, and posted and reposted on my facebook page.
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Beginners Chair Yoga now online. Check Gail’s Youtube account: Yogawithgaileee Free to those with MS.
Chair Yoga to Increase Strength, Better Joint Mobility, Build Bones, Lower Blood Pressure, Lessen Stress, Improves Circulation, Gain Flexibility and Ease Back Pain. Through this beginners chair yoga class with Certified Yoga Teacher, Gail Pickens-Barger. 409-727-3177
This just in. Yoga effective in lessening chronic back pain.
This just in!
A new study reports that weekly classes of yoga or intensive stretching are equally effective at reducing low back pain and improving back movement. Both proved better than a self-care book, and their benefits lasted several months after the classes ended.
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Each year, Americans spend over $50 billion on low back pain. It is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading reason for missed work. A variety of treatments are available, but none have proved to be highly effective for chronic back pain. In addition, little is known about the comparative effectiveness of these therapies.
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National Institute for Health (NIH) – Yoga eases moderate to severe chronic low back pain
Researchers found that yoga was as effective as standard physical therapy for treating moderate to severe chronic low back pain in people in under served communities.
The results suggest yoga may be useful as a treatment option for people with chronic low back pain.
To study whether yoga helps alleviate pain and improve movement for people from under served communities, a team led by Dr. Robert Saper at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center studied 320 predominantly low-income, racially diverse adults with moderate to severe chronic low back pain.
The participants were randomly divided into three treatment groups. One group received 12 weekly yoga classes designed specifically for people with chronic back pain; one received 15 physical therapy visits over 12 weeks; and one was given an educational book and newsletters about self-care for chronic low back pain.
The researchers found that all three groups reported improvement in physical function and pain reduction. However, people in the yoga and physical therapy treatment groups were significantly more likely than those in the education-only group to stop taking pain relievers after one year. These findings suggest that a structured yoga program may be a reasonable alternative to physical therapy for people with chronic low back pain.
“There are now a number of studies, including ours, that show that yoga is effective for chronic low back pain, but until ours those studies included mostly white and middle-class individuals,” Saper explains. “Chronic low back pain disproportionately impacts those who are economically disadvantaged. Therefore, we feel that it was important to test whether the yoga would be received well by an under served population as well as being effective.” —by Tianna Hicklin, Ph.D.
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