Category: Beginners Yoga with Gail Pickens-Barger

Modified Sun Salutes for Yoga in Nederland, Texas

Modified Sun Salutes for Yoga in Nederland, Texas – with Yoga Teacher, Gail Pickens-Barger

Lately I’ve been posting a lot in my private facebook group Yoga for Pacemakers & ICDS about modified versions of the Salute to the Sun.  Thought I’d share with you the sequences!

Part of the challenge is to slowly come down to the floor from modified plank to cobra or sphinx.  Engaging the chest muscles with an implanted device is somewhat challenging!  As always keep it between easy and the ouch!  My older daughter demonstrating the sequences!

Come to my Beginning Yoga classes at Wesley UMC in Nederland, Texas.  Mondays at 6:15 pm and Thursdays at 10 am.  Also search on facebook “Yoga for Pacemakers” to join the group.

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Part of the challenge is to slowly come down to the floor from modified plank to cobra or sphinx.  Engaging the chest muscles with an implanted device is somewhat challenging!  As always keep it between easy and the ouch!  My older daughter demonstrating the sequences!

See origins of the Facebook Yoga Pacemaker/ICD group

Happy Birthday my little yogini!

My littlest kiddo turns 11 today.  Now that she is a tween, it isn’t “cool” to yoga with her mum as much.  That’s okay, we still do “car yoga” on the way to school each day!  Love it!

Cross the hemisphere’s

Figure 8’s with the breath

Cross the midline with intentional breath

It’s all good!

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Yoga practice with a pacemaker

This is a great article! Thank you for blogging this. I’ve added it to the Yoga and Pacemaker/ICD facebook group. Yoga with Gail

Yoga for Pacemaker/ICD Facebook Group Moderator, Gail Pickens-Barger
Yoga for Pacemaker/ICD Facebook Group Moderator, Gail Pickens-Barger

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Today, like every other day, I closed my yoga class by advising everyone that I’m available for questions. Normally, I’m able answer most questions. Today, not so much or at least not to my satisfaction.

An older gentleman approached me and told me he has a pacemaker in his chest, he’s been cleared to exercise and currently runs and swims, he has some scar tissue, and he wanted to know what I knew about yoga and people with pacemaker’s. I advised him that he had the distinct honor of being my first pacemaker client (to my knowledge). He also went on to tell me that he has wires in his chest that connect from the pacemaker to his heart.

I humbly told him that I personally didn’t have any specific information to provide as I hadn’t learned anything addressing pacemakers and yoga. However, I told him to definitely listen to…

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