Welcome to the Fibromyalgia Yoga Teacher
Whether you’re a yoga teacher hoping to learn more about the benefits of yoga for fibromyalgia (and how yoga doesn’t help fibromyalgia) or someone who has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and is curious about yoga, I’m glad you’re here.
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Recent Blogs
What Helps Pain Catastrophizing in Fibromyalgia?
Catastrophizing means that someone becomes obsessed with the worst possible outcome and treats it as likely, even when it's not. For chronic pain sufferers, and especially people with fibromyalgia who often don't receive adequate pain treatment, it means worrying...
People With Fibromyalgia Are Tired of Being “Cured”
When we look at the current state of yoga research, the trend in most capitalist countries is to put it into a scientific study, show how it improves conditions that our medical industrial complex really doesn't want to treat, and then use that as proof that yoga can...
Where is the advocacy about fibromyalgia on social media?
Recently I've made the switch to Mastodon from Twitter/X, but even when I was on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, I noticed that the hashtag fibromyalgia came up a lot less than certain other conditions. In fact, even when things were being...
Distinguishing the Different Layers of Pain with Fibromyalgia
Ask any fibromyalgia patient about the daily thrum of pain that fills our bodies. For most, it can be a low hum, background noise, white noise, but then something happens, or the weather shifts, and the pain moves as well. It starts to scream and yell, to rage against...
Can you do yoga when you’re in pain?
It's the proverbial chicken and egg question. Yoga and gentle movement is recommended for fibromyalgia. But one of the common symptoms is chronic, widespread pain. So either you hurt too much to want to move, or you wonder if you should move if you're in pain. The...
Resting In Child’s Pose With Fibromyalgia
In many able-bodied yoga classes (I use that term to differentiate from accessible/chronic illness aware yoga classes.) yoga instructors tell students they can "rest in child's pose" if they can't perform a pose or variation or feel as if the class is "too much" for...
Welcome to the Fibromyalgia Yoga Teacher
I received my fibromyalgia diagnosis in the early 2000s, and sadly, the advice for the condition hasn't changed much since then. Try the "big 3 meds", and if they don't work, do yoga. Sure, I had one doctor tell me to "eat the rainbow" (and sadly, she wasn't talking...
