Blueberry Gardens Center for Yoga, Growth and Healing

01/17/2025

04/11/2023

Welcome to Dennis (Dezzy) Nielsen, our newest Massage Therapy practitioner, who is offering Trager Bodywork at Blueberry Gardens. Here is a description of Trager:
Trager® sessions, like a massage session, present a tactile sense of a new feeling experience, but also a whole other dimension is added with lush and wonderful sense of ease and freer movement possibilities - really de-stressing and deeply relaxing.

Trager® sessions include gentle bouncing, stroking, elongations, and a variety of playful body movements received in a calming, pleasurable atmosphere. Cumulative in nature, this work promotes ease, physical mobility, and a renewed lasting awareness of agelessness.

Trager® sessions are designed to be both extremely pleasant and effective. The effects are both cumulative and accelerate with each visit. Sessions are generally 60-90 minutes long. Time and frequency of sessions are tailored according to client’s particular needs.

Sessions usually include an interview, assessment, and movement. Clients wear loose clothing. After sessions, practitioners offer individualized movement suggestions to expand upon the positive effects of the work. He has very flexible hours here.

You can reach him at :
Phone: 301-467-4835
Email: Dennis.Nielsen@BlueberryGardens.org

02/13/2021

Yoga for Bone Health and Osteoporosis: Preventing and Reversing Bone Loss with Carol Mermey and Deborah Boggs
Osteoporosis is a silent disease that weakens bones, often resulting in fractures. Recent studies indicate that Yoga, practiced the right way, can build bone mass and prevent fractures without undesirable side effects. You’ll learn a safe and enjoyable practice to improve bone and muscle strength, posture, and balance.

This workshop provides an overview of osteoporosis:
Definition, prevalence, testing, risk factors, remediating factors, physiology
Consequences: fractures, falls, bone health
How yoga can counteract weakening bones without undesirable side effects.
Do’s and Don’ts: movements which are safe and movements to be avoid.
We guide you through carefully selected yoga poses to build muscle and bone, improve posture, balance, and overall strength as recommended by Dr. Lauren Fishman.