August Book Club: Waking by Matthew Sanford
This months CF Yogi Book Club is hosted by Colleen Lewis, who has selected Waking by Matthew Sanford as our group read.
Helping People with CF Stay Healthy at Home
As the coronavirus pandemic places people with CF at high risk, we’re taking additional steps to help people with CF manage the physical, mental, and emotional impacts of the evolving situation from the safety of their own homes.
Introducing the CF Yogi Book Club!
Who else out there spent every summer of your childhood with a stack of library books by the bed? CF Yogi Book Club is an opportunity for our community to come together and explore some new books!
Gratitude in Having (and Being) Enough
The practice of gratitude can transform your everyday life. Rather than coveting what we don’t have, we find a refreshed appreciation for what we already own.
Speaking Honestly When the Truth Hurts (Satya)
As we practice satya (truthfulness) on our yoga mat, that means opening ourselves to the truth . . . and un-deceiving ourselves of beliefs that may be doing us harm.
Keep Choosing Kindness (Ahimsa)
When you’re living in a pandemic, your choices impact others in a real and permanent way. As a person with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), my health and well-being depends on others consistently choosing kindness over fear.
Yoga practices for ethical living: Yamas and Niyamas
The Yamas and Niyamas are conscious choices that we make in our daily lives and in our interactions with others, as we choose to offer love to all creatures and to the earth itself.
The antidote to stress is relaxation
Like many in the CF world out there, my brain has has been going 100 miles a minute thinking about COVID-19 and the tornado of destruction and phlegm left in its path. I know for me personally, when things like this happen one of the hardest things to do is to S L O W D O W N.
Ride the Wave: Taking Yoga off the Mat
We talk so much about how the practice of yoga can help with our daily lives, but we don’t often take the time to talk about how. To start, I’d like to delve a little deeper into a concept that you might already be familiar with— “Riding the wave.”
CF Yogi Featured in CF News Today
CF Yogi just got a really nice writeup in Cystic Fibrosis News Today! This story gives some behind-the-scenes of how we got started.
