Nourish Your Health , Podcast. Podcast nourishyourhealth : Play in new window Download Duration: β Subscribe: RSS. A Lafayette native, she returned to Louisiana after living many years in Dallas, and since , has been a Yoga Instructor at the Jill Listi Dance Studio and also currently offers massage services at Pascale Spa, both in Lafayette. While there are over , yoga instructors in the U. Iyengar yoga focuses on body mechanics, body awareness, and spatial orientation. Ryan stresses that most pain and physical restrictions people experience emanate from repetitive postural distortions resulting from our daily habits.
This yoga practice specifically addresses proper alignment while teaching people to be mindful as they go about their dayβ¦. Ryan suffered from childhood with kidney disease.
She discovered the health benefits of yoga at the age of 28 when her mother found a book about yoga; at that time, Ryan had little muscle tone and was not strong. She developed a love of yoga from the beginning and enjoyed the naturopathic, personal way it confers good health. Through the practice of yoga, she has found the strength to maintain an active massage therapy practice.
While most massage therapists are only physically able to work for seven years before having to retire from the practice, she is going strong at 24 years into her practice. It gave me the freedom to recover emotionally. I was 28, with zero muscle tone or strength. I gained confidence and balance in my life. I became grounded.
The physical practice of yoga allows you to become more thoughtful, more proactive, and gives the practitioner peace of mind. The benefit of the Iyengar yoga practice is that it is wellness-based and teaches how to be more aware of your own body, its limitations, and how to become aware of all of your surroundings and how they affect your body.
