December, 2024 | Peace Mountain Yoga

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024

Winter Solstice Blessing 2024

“ The Winter Solstice is a time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.”` ~Frederick Lenz

The Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is when the Earth’s pole reaches its maximum tilt away from the sun. It is the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year when the sun is at its lowest maximum elevation in the sky. (wikipedia) Continue reading “Winter Solstice Blessing 2024”

December 5, 2024December 5, 2024

A Talk on Chronic Pain and Ways to Manage it

On November 26th, I presented at the Hillsdale Safe at Home Committee’s monthly Coffee Hour. This is text of my talk:

Good morning. Thank you for the introduction. And thank you all for coming. As you know my name is Franny Alexander. I am an RN and Yoga teacher, certified to teach chair yoga, yin yoga, and “Let Your Yoga Dance.” I am also qualified to teach restorative yoga and yoga for arthritis.

I entitled my talk Drink, Sleep, Love – Ways to Mitigate, Soothe, Treat, and Ease Chronic Pain. As we all know, there aren’t any instant fixes and one size does not fit all . Continue reading “A Talk on Chronic Pain and Ways to Manage it”