Vinyasa Flow Yoga Series
Join our newest team member April Vuong. Yoga allows April to come to her mat and be playful, take risks, build core strength, breathe, be mindful, and slow down to live in the present moment. Come learn with April and share in her playful, core strength building, and mindfulness approach to Yoga!
Tuesdays 6:30-7:30pm.
What to expect:
• Receive guidance with slow, mindful, alignment based yoga techniques
• Benefit from personalized instruction with modifications to ensure safety and therapeutic movements
• Receive physical assists/adjustments to deepen postures (with advance consent from students)
• Build strength, increase flexibility, and find focus
• Link breath to movement and work towards a moving meditation
Why:
• Yoga transforms and benefits your overall health and well being
• It makes you stronger and have a deeper mind body connection
• Yoga promotes growth spiritually and psychologically
SOHMA taking on the Long Beach Internship Challenge
We are proud participants in the Long Beach Internship Challenge. Interns from the Pacific Gateway program are learning skills for their future here at SOHMA. As an added bonus they are being exposed to the healing powers of Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Eastern Medicine, Herbalism, Tai Chi and more!
http://www.pacific-gateway.org/
Play Your Way to Fitness
SOHMA Health Tip: Want to look good for summer? Looking good is a reflection of feeling good and being healthy. If you want your physique to improve, you have to get physical. Easier said than done – I know. The best way we have found to get people to exercise is to not call it that. Exercise is often boring. Instead, we recommend you “PLAY” your way to a new physical state of health. Do you like to dance, play ball, swim, hike, horse around, skip, throw a ball, play tag, garden? Pick any of these activities and have fun. Your body will begin to adapt and change with you. If you like the look of a particular physique such as a swimmer, volleyball player, rock climber, cyclist, etc., then start doing those things they do, and you’ll be amazed at how your body will begin to shape that way too. In physiology there is a principle that states: that the body will make specific adaptations to imposed demands. Meaning it will literally adapt to the demands you place on it. Once you get some momentum with your playful activities you’ll notice how good you feel and want to do more. Okay, you want to play, but don’t have time? Strange as it may seem, we all have the same 24 hours every single day. Put yourself first as a priority because no one else will. Take care of yourself, get out there and have fun! Your body, your friends, and your family will thank you.
Cosmetic Acupuncture
Cosmetic Acupuncture now being offered at SOHMA. The great thing about this natural approach to cosmetic enhancement, is that you also receive treatment for your other health concerns at the same time at no extra cost. We use holistic methods that work with your physiology to enhance collagen production which decreases fine lines. Feel great and look great without expensive injections or surgery.
SOHMA Health Tip
What do stomach cramps and nausea have in common? They can often be relieved by pressing the Acupuncture point CV-12 (Zhong Wan). The translation of the point means “Central Venter.” It is the front mu point of the stomach meridian which helps to sedate or “vent” the overactive stomach. This point is located four cun (proportional measurements) or four inches above the navel (midway between the navel and the bottom of the xyphoid process/sternum). See the picture above to help you find the point. Press and hold the tender point firmly for 10 to 30 seconds to reduce the symptoms. I often like to pair points with herbs.
What is the herbal equivalent of the Acupuncture point CV-12? I’d say Gan Jiang commonly known as dried Ginger. Drink a strong tea of ginger, ginger ale, eat a ginger candy, or simply chew on ginger root to relieve symptoms. Ginger may also be used to reduce menstrual cramps depending, of course, on the cause of the menstrual cramps. Let us know how the CV-12 point and Ginger work for you!