What is Bell’s Palsy?
According to the Mayo Clinc, “Bell’s Palsy occurs when the nerve that controls facial muscles on one side of your face becomes swollen or inflamed. As a result of Bell’s palsy, your face feels stiff. Half your face appears to droop, your smile is one-sided, and your eye resists closing.

Bell’s palsy can affect anyone, but rarely affects people under the age of 15 or over the age of 60.

For most people, Bell’s palsy symptoms improve within a few weeks, with complete recovery in three to six months. About 10 percent will experience a recurrence of Bell’s palsy, sometimes on the other side of the face. A small number of people continue to have some Bell’s palsy signs and symptoms for life.”

-Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/bells-palsy

What are the Symptoms?
According to the Mayo Clinic, Signs and Symptoms May Include:
* Rapid onset of mild weakness to total paralysis on one side of your face — occurring within hours to days — making it difficult to smile or close your eye on the affected side
* Facial droop and difficulty making facial expressions
* Pain around the jaw or in or behind your ear on the affected side
* Increased sensitivity to sound on the affected side
* Headache
* A decrease in your ability to taste
* Changes in the amount of tears and saliva you produce
* In rare cases, Bell’s palsy can affect the nerves on both sides of your face.

-Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/bells-palsy

What Causes Bell’s Palsy?
According to the Mayo Clinic, “With Bell’s palsy, the nerve that controls your facial muscles, which passes through a narrow corridor of bone on its way to your face, becomes inflamed and swollen — usually from a viral infection. Besides facial muscles, the nerve affects tears, saliva, taste and a small bone in the middle of your ear.”

-Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com/health/bells-palsy

Why can YOGA help?
Our Nervous System is a extraordinary control unit; coordinating and controlling every activity within the body, including: organ function, movement and sensation. It is with the Nervous System that we function in the external world. Many conditions affect the nervous system. In fact, all conditions resulting form the stresses in our daily lives can be classified as nervous disorders.

In my experience of working with children who have Bell’s Palsy I find that they often undergo a tremendous amount of stress. Whether the stress be pre-existing or a result of Bell’s Pasly the stress exacerbates or lengthens the condition. When I work with children who have Bell’s Palsy the yoga sequence (yoga breathing, yoga poses, yoga relaxation) that I have introduced to them has helped them to slow down the worrying process and promote a sense on confidence and control.

I have been working with a client over the past month using this dynamic sequence and have had positive feedback from both her and her mother that the yoga is helping her to manage her physical and emotional stress.

As the teacher it is amazing to watch yoga create such an amazing shift in such a special person!!

The nerve that controls your facial muscles passes through a narrow corridor of bone on its way to your face.

light BRIGHT!

I feel so lucky to have the opportunity in this lifetime to teach and work with Pregnant Women. The human body is an amazing vessel and working with women who bare the gift of life ignites the light within me.

This weekend I took an amazing workshop with my Doula Teacher, Kathy Julia and her amazing daughter, Nekole. The two of them a dynamic mother daughter duo shared with me the secrets of the amazing hormone Oxytocin.

Oxytocin is hormone produced in the brain and secreted into the Posterior Pituitary Gland and transmitted through the body via our Central Nervous System (CNS) Neurotasmitter and the Bloodborne Peptide Hormone. Simply put Oxytocin travels into our body via our cerebrospinal fluid and our blood. When Oxytocin exists in the blood it is what caused the uterus to contract the cervix to dilate and the mothers milk to be let down. When Oxytocin exists in the CNS it causes a mother to feel the maternal instinct (bonding), increases courage, decreases pain sensations, increases calmness, and decreases stress hormones.

I also learned in the workshop that we ourselves can increase and decrease our own Oxytocin levels. BOTH males and females CAN do this. In this workshop I learned specific tools that can be used to increase Oxytocin Levels. After coming home I had the profound realization that I already posses one of the biggest tools that can help to increase the levels of Oxytocin; YOGA.

I can’t wait to get on the mat this week. To work on finding my calm. So I can help a mother find her calm. A father find his calm. Families find their calm. For ALL TO CONNECT. For all to be a Union. For all to be one. For all to be Yoga.

The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings, and is derived from the Sanskrit root “yuj”, meaning “to control”, “to yoke” or “to unite.” Translations include “joining”, “uniting”, “union”, “conjunction”, and “means.”

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen says she gave birth to her son in a bathtub and that it didn’t hurt a bit.

The wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told Globo TV in an interview aired yesterday she wanted to be aware and calm during birth. So she decided to have her boy, Benjamin, at home on Dec. 8.

The model said she “didn’t want to be drugged up” when she gave birth. To prepare, she said she did a lot of yoga and meditation.

Brady and Bundchen were married last February.

Benjamin is Bundchen’s first child. Brady also has a 2-year-old son, Jack, with actress Bridget Moynahan.

Honolulu Advertiser
Monday February 1, 2010
Advertiser Staff

Birthing Bible.

When REALLY the answers are WITHIN.

hawaii 2 romania

starbabies

roof top views

6 months was all they had. The connection like no other she had ever had with a man. Shimmers are sure to fade. He went back to Arizona she continued in DC. That was the winter of 2003.

Life unfolds for the boy and the girl. He finishes university in Arizona, stays an extra year, experiences law school, goes to the Peace Corp in Romania. She moves back to Hawaii, completes her master’s degree, tries on marriage (it doesn’t fit), travels around the world teaching yoga. Never loosing sight of one another they always check in from time to time, phone or email.

young enough to feel his soul

The only constant thing is life is change. Love Happens. You can’t control it. You may travel to the other end of the world for it. AND so they did.

So strong was the connection still after 6 years he asks her in February of 2009 to come to Romania. Not ready and involved with her own business she says No. But says if the energy and space is still there when she is working in Europe in September she would be willing. He says one of things he is working on is being patient and this is something worth patience.

his daily mantra

The moment he embraced her as she exited the customs in Romania it was as if they hadn’t missed a year, a month, a day, an hour, a second of being together. She tried to resist it, tried to let it go. He continued to be patient, not believe her, and follow his heart. His soft persistence made her falling in love effortless. Traveling around the world to see each other for the next 5 months effortless.

balance.

take me home.

2010

As we make our final approach into Honolulu, Hawaii please make sure your tray tables are secure and your seats in the upright position. Her heart gushes like the first time 7 years ago. It is a New Year a fresh start. Together they will Love .. In Paradise.

Heavan.

シンシティーと呼ばれるラスベガス。初めて行ってきました。プレイヤーたち。Kuchや知人やFeverや彼のウサギちゃんとか。Joeと彼女とカウアイの愛情と。

3 (with your best pidgin accent) joes.

先月、オアフ初となるPre-K講師養成講座を開催しました！5名の素晴らしい女性の集まり。ヨガを通して世界中のこどもたちに変化をもたらすために新しい講師を養成していくという私のミッションを後押ししてくれました！

donna. lynn. monica. kumiko. brynne. dawn.
参加者：ドナ。リン。モニカ。クミコ。ブリン。ドーン。

balance.
バランス。

I am so happy we choose each other as brother and sister. XO
お互いを兄妹として選んできたことをとても嬉しく思います。Hugs and Kisses.

Bucharest.
ブカレスト（ルーマニアの首都）

The Fall?

6/7 Years.
6/7年間。

reflections.
反射。

Why?
なぜ？

I think I am more confused from when I arrived.
到着時よりも、もっと混乱してきた。