Mountain Stitchworks

One promise I made to myself in starting Mountain Stitchworks back up is that I would maintain balance in my life.  Beyond that I knew I couldn't continue sewing on a daily basis and stay in good health without exercise and yoga.  So when we moved to the big metropolis of greater Denver I took it upon myself to get educated and become a yoga teacher in the Iyengar tradition.

A rather large percentage of our population suffers from scoliosis.  There are two types; the kind where you are born with it (structural) and the kind that you develop (functional).  If you know you have it's probably structural and yoga can work to improve it.  If you don't know you have it, it's probably functional and yoga can work to make it go away!

I didn't know I had it, but my yoga teacher kept telling me I did.  I thought she was crazy, but the more I studied, the more I believed her.  Now I can recognize it in myself and sewing is one of the main causes for me.  I now have the rule that if I sew today I do yoga today.  It's making a huge difference in my well-being and pain-free-ness.

It's just a gander, but I think a lot of artisan entrepreneurs suffer from various aches and pains that yoga could help with.  If you live in the area you're more than welcome to drop-in at my yoga class.  If not, consider attending a bi-weekly yoga class, I recommend classes in the Iyengar Tradition.  Blue Spruce Yoga and the Iyengar Yoga Center of Denver are great places to attend.

Stay tuned for yoga sequences if you already doing yoga at home.