She is an amazing woman who used to be a lawyer, a published author, she has written a fictional book, set in the local area.
She receives offers of "All expense paid" trips around the world to share her yoga teaching with you!
Here are Julia's words - Hi, I'm Julia Masters, and I have been teaching Amanda yoga for about six months. She's a great student and she's made remarkable progress, improving the use of her right arm and hand, feeling her muscles stretch, finding some core and some flexibility in her lower back. Instead of breathing shallow, she can now lengthen her breath from a count of three to a count of five.
Yoga is helping her body to do what it has been wanting to do.....heal itself.
So, how can this work for people who have had a stroke?
Physically, yoga stretches and moves help the body to expand, stimulates by increasing circulation, nervous system, respiratory, digestion, coordination, to all function better.
The body and muscles can be strengthened. Balance and flexibility are greatly improved.
You can make a better connection from your mind to different parts of your body.
Yoga focuses on isolating core muscle groups. It's ideal for those who cannot always feel every part their body working.
After the physical work we do breath work. Pranayama, which strengthens the lungs, calms, and makes more of the mind/ body connection.
We do meditation- calming, healing, and positive.
