Melissa Reynolds talks Yoga. With chronic pain and fatigue, there's such a variation.  Some people are always at high levels of pain. Some people vary. There are various stages within fibromyalgia and chronic pain and chronic fatigue. Plus, you have other things going on.  Some people also have arthritis where their chronic pain comes from. Or there are other complexities. You can't say, “this is how you do yoga for chronic pain.” Key is letting people see that they have choices, so there's never a push. They don't need to be aiming for anything. They need to listen to their body and do what jells with their body. What feels nice? For too long, we've been told you have to push yourself. You've got to get to this point.  This is your goal.  I'm sick of external goals   I want to work on my own goals.

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Melissa Reynolds revisited 00:52. 1

Another tool: Yoga 02:47. 1

Keyword: Accessible 08:20. 2

Recruiting students 16:49. 4

Trying stuff that didn’t work before 20:10. 5

Sleep routine 22:45. 5

Reflections 25:03  6

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Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer

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Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Alison Rhodes, Amy Baxter, Barby Ingle, Lauren Reimer Etheridge, Lisa Deck, MarlaJan Wexler, Nancy Michaels

Links

Free five minutes a day for five days challenge https://melissavsfibromyalgia.teachable.com/p/yoga-for-chronic-pain-and-fatigue-challenge/ Learn how to "do" yoga and make your own toolkit in Foundations of Yoga for Chronic Pain and Fatigue https://melissavsfibromyalgia.teachable.com/p/foundations-of-yoga-for-fibromyalgia/

 
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Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little.