by lisabracken | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
HOT FLASHES 101 Welcome to Episode 002 of the Live Your Age Podcast! Power surges affect millions of women, and they hit each of us differently. While we are all for being hot, there’s such a thing as TOO HOT! What the heck are hot flashes and what can we do to...
by lisabracken | Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Episode 001: Welcome to the Live Your Age Podcast! Hey foxes, welcome to the Fox Den! This is Live Your Age, a podcast for women over 50 who are ready to get off their ass and live their sass. We’re Lisa and Andrea, and we’re so freakin’ excited to be bringing you...
by Lisa Bracken | Jul 2, 2021 | Health, Uncategorized, Yoga, Yoga for back pain, Yoga Therapy
At the age of 30, I was in chronic pain. I had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning. It took 20 minutes to unpack my body enough to stand up straight. At random times throughout the day, without warning, a shearing pain would hit my low back, blaze through my...
by Lisa Bracken | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993. I’m reeling. Again. In agony. Again. Crying and shaking in the fetal position on a scratched-up hardwood floor that hasn’t been swept in months, a mixture of snot and tears spreading across my face. I am 95 pounds of fear and...
by Lisa Bracken | Dec 1, 2020 | Ayurveda, Health, Natural Medicine, Uncategorized, women's health
My first 10 years in Oklahoma were spent living on a cattle ranch with a 30-acre hay meadow directly outside my front door. Idyllic? Indeed. But each summer when the hay was cut, misery followed. I was snotty and sneezing and popping Claritin like Tic-Tacs. ...
by Lisa Bracken | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Before I began teaching I was given a piece of advice that was instrumental in how I would ultimately instruct/construct a class: Your personal practice is not while you’re teaching – you’re there for your students, not yourself. Cultivating and maintaining a...