Interview with Shari and Bonnie on Yoga for Chronic Pain
by Nina, Shari, and Bonnie Grasses and Reflections by Brad Gibson Shari Ser and her teaching partner, Bonnie Maeda, who is a registered nurse and a yoga teacher, will be teaching a special workshop on yoga for chronic pain this coming weekend, on Saturday, September 21 (see Brentwood Yoga Center ). So I thought that it would be a good time to interview the two of them about this important topic. �Nina NINA : Why did you two decide to teach workshops on yoga for chronic pain? BONNIE : As I began teaching yoga with a therapeutic approach, it was evident that discomfort and pain were often a component for the student living with a chronic illness or injury. With the philosophy of teaching yoga to the whole person in a holistic way, I felt that there needed to be an awareness in the practice of the individual's experience of pain. As a teacher, I was also aware of another component for these students: the fear of pain (or of increasing their pain) was present as they practiced yo...