For those of you taking my online beginning yoga classes, I’ve include a few fan favorites here for you to enjoy. Additionally, a Yoga Nidra Meditation & Chair Tai Chi with Gail PB.
Hello, I’m providing some links to previously recorded classes, in case you need to take another class with me, prior to us coming together next Wednesday. I teach regularly on Wellness Living Online Studio classes for Veterans Yoga Project. Enjoy!
How to see Veterans Yoga Project Online Studio on my big TV Screen
I often get asked how I setup for teaching online yoga classes. I’ll just briefly give you an outline of what equipment I use, etc.
A quick photo of my setup for teaching online, and for taking classes online. Left to Right. Ipad, Adapter Lightening Cord, Laptop, Surge protector with my PC, and Apple Charging cord connected, HDMI cord connecting to the back of my TV, Roku device plugged into the other HDMI port, and my older not so smart (ha ha) TV, with the VYP app displayed from my ipad onto the tv.
I teach from my PC and attached camera. Then I have a second screen, where I can do gallery view, to watch the students on my somewhat bigger TV Screen.
A little background, about nine years ago, when I was teaching some educational classes in my home, I would use the apple adapter cord into my ipad/pc, and my televisions’s hdmi cord to view onto my TV. I had a different type of adaptor that I would use for my PC/Mac.
Since then I use the same cord to use as a connection, to display larger onto my Smart TV.
One needs a Smart TV. You use the Roku app on the Smart TV to connect to an iphone/ipad device app. This might be a bit difficult to figure out, as one needs to look at the “streaming store” and find the appropriate “app” for the HDMI hooking up service.
Roku device hooked up to the back of their TV, or a Smart TV that has Roku integrated within the system. ~ $45
A HDMI cord – which plugs into the Apple adaptor cord and into the HDMI port on the smart tv. ~ $10
I use a surge protector strip to plug in for power to the apple charging cord.
When I started teaching online for VYP almost five years ago, I just used the same cord system.
There are other methods to connect to a smart tv, depending if you are using a PC, an android. I’ve used Chromecast, but it was rather cludgy.
When I teach in person at a gym, I sometimes play indoor walking workouts for my clients, prior to the tai chi or yoga class. The facility has an overhead projector system. I’m able to use the cord again, and “cast” onto the large theatre display, using their bluetooth connection technology.
Apple Adapter cord.
Apple adapter into my ipad, with the hdmi cord, and my apple charger cord coming out.
My setup for teaching and taking online classes.
Left to Right. Ipad/Apple adaptor cord, PC, Camera, surge protector strip cord. My PC, Apple Charger cord in the strip cord. Smart TV with a Roku in the back plugged in (it is an older Smart TV), then on the screen I have the VYP app on screen, as it shows up on the Ipad.
One must turn off the audio on the Ipad, or you’ll have reverb/echo noise. I also turn off the volume on the TV, and only use the volume from the PC. Their setup may be different as they will not have the PC or the Ipad both running at the same time. So the sound could either be from their Ipad/Iphone or PC or the Smart TV. It takes a bit to figure this stuff out.
Questions? Complaints? Comments? Complements? Let me know!
Permission granted by Dr. Timothy McCall to share this pdf.
117 Conditions Helped by Yoga. Permission granted to copy and share this information. Yoga as medicine. As found in scientific studies as of June 2019. Yoga with Gail
I teach weekly gentle yoga for low back care classes for the Veterans Yoga Project. Book my class on Wednesdays to get some sweet relief of easing back pain.
Yoga Sleep, Ease Stress, Less Pain, & Better Quality Sleep
Wednesdays 6:15 PM Gentle Yoga for Low Back Pain At Nederland’s Wesley UMC.
a yoga mat
a strap, or dog leash, long scarf or tie
a yoga block or rolled up two hand towels
a blanket (optional)
a chair (optional)
access to a wall or hard surface
Beginners Yoga Gentle Yoga for easing back pain, lessening stress, and increasing flexibility and strength, while enjoying the yogic sleep method for better sleep in your life! We use the yoga sleep method to further enhance better sleep and sometimes less pain while sleeping.
Don’t like to get down on the floor? Chair Yoga Class. Then this class is for you with all the same great benefits of the beginner yoga class. Help your heart health with this unique chair yoga fitness class. Contact Gail to get access to these classes!
Call Gail at 409-727-3177 with your yoga questions about these classes and more!
Weekly online classes with Gail, to reduce your chronic low back pain.
Educational book self help book
Exercise / PT
Yoga
All three reduced chronic low back pain.
All three reduced chronic low back pain.
At the 12 week mark, the yoga reduced cLBP the most according to several scientific studies.
But…
The additional benefits of yoga included:
Less pain
Better sleep quality
Less stress and more
The studies found that there wasn’t much additional pain reduction based on taking one VS two classes a week. Clients also had a home practice.
The cost effectiveness in doing yoga vs PT/Exercise/Book was that the yoga participants only lost 2 days of work due to their cLBP versus doing the usual therapies for low back pain, they lost 43 days of work.
Typically, when you go to the PT or Exercise or read from a self care book, each one has their way of helping with pain. Yoga adds meditation and breathing which is linked to perceived less pain, better sleep, less stress and more.
Gentle Yoga and Tai Chi with Gail 
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