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Tag: Michigan

  • Yoga for Scoliosis in Michigan 4/20/2012

    The Iyengar yoga teacher I have mentioned several times, Elise Browning Miller, is coming back to Michigan. I cannot wait!

    Her classes will be hosted by the Michigan Yoga Association in Kalamazoo. The workshop details are in a PDF on their website. I thought I’d republish them here in HTML to make them easier to share.

    Workshop Dates & Descriptions

    Friday April 20, 2012 6-8PM – Yoga for Scoliosis

    Saturday April 21, 2012 10AM-12:30PM, 2PM-5PM Yoga for Back Care – Saturday
    This session will address different back issues and injuries resulting in poor posture, lower back pain, chronic neck and shoulder pain, scoliosis and other back conditions. Elise will address how to adapt certain yoga poses for a wide variety of back conditions including scoliosis and give a series of therapeutic yoga poses for those back conditions. Appropriate for those dealing with their own back related issues as well as yoga teachers and those who treat these conditions in others.

    Sunday April 22, 2012 9AM-noon Heart Opening through Backbends
    Elise will lead students through standing poses to prepare for an uplifting backbend practice. Elise will pace the class so that students will feel secure enough to work with a variety of backbend poses. Students should be familiar with standing poses and beginning backbends.

    Sunday April 22, 2012 1PM-3PM Forward Bends and Twists: Freedom or Frustration?
    Many students with spinal and hip joint challenges struggle with forward bends and twists. Elise will cover how to practice and teach these important categories of poses safely and effectively.

    Costs & Registration

    Friday Yoga for Scoliosis class $65 separately

    Saturday and Sunday classes $150

    Location: Transformations Center, 3427 Gull Road, Kalamazoo, MI

  • Pie Cherries – Reason #357 to love Michigan

    I love Michigan. I love living here for many reasons:

    • The weather is fine for knitting much of the year,
    • Snow lining tree branches is gloriously beautiful,
    • Spring ephemerals and flowering trees are a miracle after ice and sleet,
    • Fall is crimson, fiery orange, and golden leaves, enjoyed in crisp sunshine and then tossed by moody winds, and
    • Summer is grand – sultry, sunny, and replete with yummy local fruit.
    A photo of cherries
    Michigan tart cherries – yum!

    The king of local fruit is the sour or tart cherry. The tart cherries are a semi-translucent red, like captured sunlight, which they are. They make the most amazing cherry pie. Oh, and they don’t travel well, so they’re not something that gets hurled across the globe with abandon:  you have to enjoy them right here. And maybe because of that, for me, they’re also connected to memories of other summers and other pies.

    I sat on my patio this evening, pitting these cherries with a hairpin, feeling their juice running down my forearm to my elbow. More than most things these days, these cherries are a signal of a particular place and a particular moment in the season.  Slurp in the summertime.

    Coming for dessert tonight?