234: Love Your Brain Yoga
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The World Health Organization estimates that traumatic brain injuries will be the 3rd leading cause of death and disability by 2020, but many people are still unaware of this condition impacting millions every year.
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet, Kyla Pearce, a teacher that uses the mind-body healing power of yoga to help people with traumatic brain injuries rewire neuromuscular connections, improve concentration and focus, and find a supportive community for growth.
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What You´ll Learn:
- Why any blow or jolt to the head that leads to some disruption of brain function is technically a TBI
- 2.5 million people per year in the U.S. have reported TBI's
- World Health Organization predicts TBI will be 3rd leading cause of death and disability by 2020
- How yoga can work on strength and coordination
- How you can rebuild neuromuscular connection, improve concentration & focus
- How it can provide emotional support, social integration & community
- Why poses that impact blood pressure and poses that put weight on the head and neck might be contraindicated and should be taught with care
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Love Your Brain is a non-profit organization founded after professional snowboarder, Kevin Pearce, suffered a near fatal traumatic brain injury while training for the 2010 winter Olympics. Kevin's story of healing inspired millions through the HBO documentary, The Crash Reel. This experience brought to light the significance and prevalence of TBI on a global scale. Love Your Brain is a non-profit that aims to improve the quality of life of people affected by TBI—everything from concussion to severe injury—through programs that build community... including yoga.
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| 0:14.1 | If you're new to yoga and excited and you want to learn more, one of the challenges I find most people I work with have is getting access to lots of different styles, lots of different studios, and lots of different teachers, because no matter how big your city is there's a finite number of people they're teaching who you'd really like to get in touch |
| 0:18.0 | with and this is where yoga festivals come in. Yoga festivals can be a really great way to just bombard your mind and your body with different and new practices. |
| 0:31.0 | Practices, some of which will connect with and there will be things you can use for the |
| 0:34.7 | rest of your life, and other practices that maybe you'll decide, hey, you know what, this particular |
| 0:39.3 | style of yoga is not for me, this one is for me, I've found festivals to be really great for that. |
| 0:44.0 | This week's yoga talk show is sponsored by the San Diego Yoga Festival, which is from the 27th to the 30th of January 2017. |
| 0:52.0 | It's basically four full days of yoga, non-stop yoga classes, |
| 0:56.3 | 50 different teachers, mostly from Southern California. |
| 0:59.2 | It's a beautiful location. |
| 1:00.5 | San Diego is a great place to be. |
| 1:02.1 | And again, if you're looking to expand your |
| 1:04.7 | worldview of yoga if you're looking to meet and connect with like-minded people and more than anything |
| 1:10.4 | just to try a whole bunch of different styles in a very short period of time. |
| 1:14.1 | I think yoga festivals are the way to go. |
| 1:16.5 | And the San Diego Yoga Festival has a lot to offer. |
| 1:19.2 | Check them out at San Diego Yoga Festival.com and is a special thanks to yoga talk show listeners you can use |
| 1:26.1 | the promo code the coupon code nama stoked to get a hundred and eight dollars off your ticket. I'll link up to this in the show |
| 1:35.0 | notes as well but the coupon code is namastoked and their |
| 1:38.7 | uh... ural is San Diego yoga Festival.com. Just a couple of months after I first started teaching yoga back in 2002, I had a student who came to class who had a traumatic brain injury. He'd been in an |
| 1:55.9 | accident. I didn't get all the details but from what I understand it was a car accident |
| 1:59.2 | and it had left him fully functioning physically but the injury to his brain he had |
| 2:06.7 | uh... neuromuscular problems language problems vision problems pretty much everything |
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