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The truth about fibromyalgia

  The truth is fibromylgia suck, BIG TIME!  It didn’t suck so much before I got chikungunya.  I had bad days but I could manage. My long run was 7-8 miles and I could manage 3 or 4 runs per week.  Ever since I got chikungunya my health has continued to deteriorate.  I just can’t …

The truth about fibromyalgia

This post has been sitting in drafts for over a year now – December 9th 2016.  Why so long? Because I’ve been steadily feeling awful for over a year.  When I go back and read it I feel pretty naïve. I’ve been doing great!!  Very little pain for the past 3 months.  I started to …

Pose of the Week: Breakthroughs

What you see in the video above is nothing short of a miracle.  I have been working really hard on this pose (and inversions in general) and felt like I wasn’t making progress.  I can teach these poses and my students do them so well but actually doing it is another story completely.  To be fair …

Video: Yoga for chronic pain

I have been missing in action because I got the chikungunya then had to play catch up with my life. I still have joint and muscle pains from the chikungunya on top of my regular fibro crazies. It is important to keep moving during illnesses.  Therefore I have put together a special gentle class for …

An Open Letter To Dr. Drew Pinsky

The yoga sutras say that (loosely translated) disease prevents us from achieving our goals and general happiness. They also suggest that we should be compassionate to those less fortunate than us. This is the reason why I like to share yoga poses, my experiences living with fibromyalgia and chronic pain as well as recipes on …