Be Calm and Steady During Times of Change
How can we create equanimity and awareness that will support us in riding the ebbs and flows of life? Join author and yoga teacher Nina Zolotow, as she offers ancient and modern yogic tools that return balance, calmness and contentment when we experience challenging times.
NINA ZOLOTOW is the author of Yoga for Times of Change. She is a certified yoga teacher as well as a longtime yoga writer. Zolotow teaches workshops and series classes on yoga for emotional well-being, stress, better sleep, cultivating equanimity, and healthy aging. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging Blog and is the coauthor of Yoga for Healthy Aging (with Baxter Bell) and Yoga and Moving toward Balance (both with Rodney Yee).
WEBSITE: YogaForTimesofChange.com
GUEST COMMENTS: Laurel was such an excellent host, and she made me feel very supported and at ease. It was wonderful talking with her. The Yoga Hour team seems like a very lovely group of people. I’m glad you’re sharing so much valuable information about yoga with the world.
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: This is a very timely interview on how yoga practices can help us in times of change. Any change puts our nervous system on alert in order to face the new challenge whether it is a desired or undesired change. Nina and Laurel discuss a huge range of choices of yoga practices for listeners to be able to explore and experiment with when faced with anxiety, depression, unbalance and uneasiness. Yoga asana routines, supported inverted poses, breathing techniques, numerous types of meditation, and universal kindness are just a few. Nina is clear and descriptive which will enable the listener to try out some of these techniques to see what works for them. This interview and the book, Yoga for Times of Change, are not to be missed.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: It was great to discuss all the tools that yoga has to offer us in dealing with the change that is part of all the manifest universe including our minds and bodies. I appreciated Nina Zolotow’s insight that each of us needs to use self-study to see if a particular practice, such as a relaxing breathing exercise, is working for us, and to change it is it is not. I loved the instructions she shared about the supported inverted yoga poses and the physiologic reason that they help us to relax. She made this very accessible for listeners with several options that they can try. I also appreciated her instructions about how to adapt yoga poses so that everyone can do them.