Pressing Your Points with Yoga

Have you ever had a really bad headache? Or a leg cramp that takes your breath away? If you held your head in your hands, or grabbed your leg when you felt the cramp, you were practicing acupressure.

I just returned from four days in Berkeley at the Acupressure Institute, where I studied with Michael Reed Gach and Alice Hiatt. Here's a picture with me and Michael, who has written numerous books about using acupressure for optimal health.

Michael taught a seminar on Acu-Yoga, which is a system he developed to use yoga poses and breath to activate acupressure points. Alice's seminar was on basic acupressure.

What a gift to be able to learn from these masters. I'm looking forward to sharing some of what I've learned with my upcoming classes!