Written by Aviva Tulasi
Before yoga as exercise was mainstream, Dr. Dean Ornish began researching how lifestyle changes can impact one's health. In the 1983 Pilot study Dr. Dean Ornish showed that even severe heart disease could be reversed by the Ornish Program, as demonstrated by improved blood flow to the heart after only 30 days. With 37 years of scientific evidence, the Ornish program shows that changes in diet and lifestyle can make a powerful difference in your heart function and overall well-being. The Ornish program is not a yoga program, but it mirrors the themes of yoga and offers participants opportunities to practice yoga. The rigorous program has you look at four important areas of your life: how you manage stress, how much love and support you have, how much you move and what you eat.
The Ornish program is one of the first medically supported lifestyle programs that is shown to aid a healthy circulatory system, but many others have followed. A 2019 Metanalysis found that, “Yoga has been shown to have favorable effects on systemic inflammation, stress, the cardiac autonomic nervous system, and traditional and emerging cardiovascular risk factors.”
As the Ornish program states, yoga helps support healthy circulation because, “Awareness is the first step in healing”. As we practice yoga we get in tune with our body and learn to listen to it. Along with building awareness, we learn how to move all of our muscles which aids circulation. Sometimes we might even find that our yoga practice raises our heart rate.
Dogwood offers safe and rigorous movement for all abilities and circumstances. We have updated our schedule slightly. Sign-up for a Group Yoga Class Live Online or In Person on our website.
If you have a friend you think would benefit from joining us for a class, pass along the coupon code Friend4Free. The coupon code Friend4Free is for a friend to take their first Online or In Person at The Parlor group class for free. To use the code, the friend can sign-up for a class of their choice and at checkout they enter Friend4Free in Apply Discount Code. The price will be discounted to "0" for that class.
To Sign-up for a class: https://dogwoodstudioyoga.com/class-signup
Class Descriptions: https://dogwoodstudioyoga.com/class-descriptions
We have our first Karma Class Sunday November 14th at 11am! Dogwood Studio is proud to start our pay what you can Karma Classes by supporting Healing Pines Respite. I hope you can help us support this community. If you cannot attend and want to donate, please feel free to sign-up and let us know you will not be attending.
Dogwood Studios and CPCH are collaborating to offer CPCH's staff, their clients and the public with accessible online yoga. There are 3 more classes to take a $5 dollar Online class (Mindful Movement & Yoga): Nov 3rd, 10th and 17th, 6:15pm - 7:15pm. Learn more about our collaboration. Sign-up on our website.
Restorative Yin and Yoga Nidra at 3pm EST online with Leesann. This is a perfect time to practice a nourishing interoceptive practice to support your nervous system through the rest of 2021. You do not have to come to all these sessions to benefit. Sign-up on our website.
If you have any questions about our offerings, please email info@dogwoodstudioyoga.com.
Aviva Chaye Tulasi is a staff member at Dogwood Studios. She has recently completed a IYAT certified 800 hour yoga therapy program. She brings balance to the nervous system using classical yoga adapted to a person’s needs. Email Aviva at yogawithtulasi@gmail.com. She is here to help.
SAM Sather, founder of Dogwood Studios, is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), individualizes the yoga practice with appropriate modifications for participants’ unique bodies and medical histories with a focus on finding calm and improving health. She offers several live, online class in yoga as private sessions so you can focus on your needs one-on-one.