Yoga Time Warrior

19/10/2023

This is a 14min class suitable for any time of day, before you hop of your bed in the morning, at your desk at work, even if you wake up and can't sleep in the middle of the night. You simply need to be seated with your feet flat on the floor, that's it! I love this class, I do it any time pain or tense muscles/joints are messing with me.

Part of Tension Release Series Level 1 so is FREE for anyone to access. Suitable for those suffering with a sore or tired body including delayed onset muscle soreness, chronic health conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long Covid, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Orthostatic Intolerance, MS, Back Pain, Migraine or Headaches, Anxiety and Depression, the list goes on🤩.

This is a great short class that you can do just about anywhere, take a short break in your workday, when you first get out of bed in the morning, or even if you wake during the night. This is a very calming class to relieve pain in your neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back and hips. Also incl...

18/10/2023

A brilliant summary of yoga from Reverse Reset Restore and why it can benefit just about anyone😉.

Hello and welcome to Wellness Wednesday and Day 18 of our 31 Days of Self Care Program. Today we are going to talk about Yoga, including the history, how to get started in your yoga practice, and the benefits including: Physical, Mental, Emotional...

13/10/2023

EXERCISE, we all need something different. Personally, I've faced some tough lessons on exercise in the last few years, I've consciously exercised for health my whole adult life, but I'd failed to recognize that I'd lost perspective, I'd pushed too hard for too long. This podcast episode from Reverse Reset Restore offers some great perspective on what exercise should be.... no matter what your current relationship with exercise is👍.

It's Day 6 of our 31 Days of Self Care Program and today is all about getting in some physical activity. It’s time to Move Your Body! I'm not going to ask you to do a specific workout, but I am going to encourage you to choose something you love t...

10/10/2023

This is another class that has served me so well when I've really needed it. Part of Level 1 of the Tension Release Series (available without subscription) it has similar yet different movements to 1A, variety is really important to releasing tension, tension is complex so one sequence of movements alone day after day will not cut it. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (along with many other health conditions) can commonly cause tendon pain, it is really important not to overstretch when suffering with this type of tendon inflammation, it makes it worse. This class is mindful of that 😊, but it's really important that the practitioner remembers that to, never stretch too far for you. This is another class of only supine and seated postures so suitable for anyone that does not want to be standing and great for relieving some pain and/or stress before going to bed.

22 minutes of dynamic movements and both passive and active stretching. This gives the body the opportunity to mobilise, improves blood flow to the muscles, releasing tension while still allowing your body to start to rebuild damaged or fatigued structures. Beginning breath development that will ...

03/10/2023

This class has got me through some tough times, it's only 23 minutes and designed to suit a sore body. Many of us hold tension in our spine and this spreads to our joints from there. Neck, shoulders, spine, hips, pelvis. This type of class is really helpful before bed. This class is all supine or seated, no standing posture so is suitable for ME CFS in particular those that suffer POTS or orthostatic intolerance, put more simply if you find standing makes you dizzy..... so will also be suitable for someone with Vertigo 🥴.

No subscription required for this class, enjoy 😉.

23 minutes of dynamic movements and both passive and active stretching. This gives the body the opportunity to mobilise, improves blood flow to the muscles, releasing tension while still allowing your body to start to rebuild damaged or fatigued structures. Beginning breath development that will ...

01/10/2023

I've been rather quiet on the social media front for some time. Although I try to hide it, dealing with ME/CFS is not easy, even a mild case, social media is what I chose to cut from my time, sadly my social life has taken a hit as well, thankfully I now feel like I'm heading back out of the spiral 😉. Yoga Time Warrior has been an invaluable tool for managing it, I've been able to make yoga work for me at a time where I've lost my ability to exercise like I used to, you'll see more online yoga classes suitable for ME/CFS from me, with a selection of these available at no charge. I've also spent much time coming to terms with ME/CFS, like you'll find with many sufferers. Because everyone's case is unique, they have to get proactive solving their own problems.

This post provides a link to my free informational page on ME/CFS otherwise known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome along with many other names as well. It is also essentially what Long Covid is. Understanding these types of conditions from the perspective of a sufferer can be an invaluable tool to someone trying to find a diagnosis That is the purpose of this page, to help others out there find some perspective with a condition that has historically been so hard to get a diagnosis on.

Adaptive Yoga: Helping Non-Yogi's Build Strength & Mobility Revitalize Your Body: Natural Pain Relief Through Yoga

01/10/2023

Welcome to our very special series starting today! Over the next  31 Days, we'll be learning a variety of ways to practice Self Care as part of Mental Health Awareness Month, here in Australia. Coming up , we have 31 different practices,...

06/04/2023

We have postures for every directional movement of the spine so we strengthen, stretch and improve overall mobility from every angle, working into the deep stabilizing spinal muscles, it is the core focus of our practice. This is both a preventative of future injury and long term relief of current back pain. 😉👍

05/04/2023

The Chest To Abdomen Breathing technique is used throughout our movements in our yoga practice. It is an essential foundation to developing strength, stability and mobility in the spine, all absolute essentials to a pain free back. Gaining long term relief from back pain is not just about stretching, this is a common misconception because stretches generally ease the pain.... but pain is just a symptom, not the actual problem. To solve the problem we need to retrain and strengthen the spine.

In my many years lifting weights I never achieved this, my guess is because with weight your brain/body connection is too busy focusing on the larger muscles groups to lift the weight, whereas the type of movements we perform in our yoga practice are very focused on the spine and its connective structures, while using our Chest to Abdomen Breathing to support the movement. I'm going to acknowledge here, that is my personal opinion due to my own experiences with weights, despite being strong, fit and using good technique, I never managed to get past the back pain until I found the yoga style I practice today. 💪🧐

13/03/2023

Many of us don't realize we have a poor phycological relationship with exercise. We shouldn't use it to make up for bad health or lifestyle choices, if we do we're simply creating a negative relationship with exercise. If you make a not so great choice, like eating a chocolate bar, forget about it and move on, make a better choice next time, eat an apple instead, pushing yourself extra hard at the gym will only seem like you made up for it, burning off the calories is a myth. Choosing to exercise the day after a few too many drinks, now that one I always found was a good one, it seemed to work the toxins through the body faster & encourage getting fresh fluids in the body to relieve dehydration.... could be another myth? 😉.