Yamuna

04/13/2026

Calling All Pilates Enthusiasts! Live from Woodbury, MN with Teri Smith
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04/12/2026

I have still be thinking a lot about recovery and the various stages one often goes through. When people contact me after serious injuries, surgeries or illnesses I listen very carefully as they ask for my help. In most cases I need a great deal more information and full history not just what they are struggling with at the moment. Recovery involves first what actually happened, what you are told medically, what possible solutions and treatments you are given, and your belief in yourself that you can overcome this and be on your path the recovery.

I always tell people to not get stuck in medical diagnoses and name calling but believe in finding your personal best. You might never have the body or body parts you had before so your recovery takes you on a healing journey. You are constantly searching for what is next in your recovery stages. There are just so many stages one can go through in becoming your personal best now.

Frustration, fear, doubt, anger, and using these feelings to move forward in recovery are very important. These feelings can keep you down or you can use them to recognise moments of feeling stuck along your recovery to actually get yourself out of these feelings and push forward.

We often reach plateaus. Some people are happy they have gotten this far and are often happy at this level and think they are good enough. Other people feel every restriction and limitation and simply can not stop searching for feeling the best they can.

Sometimes acceptance is an amazing gift. You are still alive. You understand the whys and the possibilities for growth in the new state of your body.

Recovery is a very deep solo journey even though we can have so many helpers along the way. Recovery can show us we are not powerless but have an infinite amount of possibilities, epiphanies and insights all along the healing journey.

04/04/2026

RECOVERY

I woke up 2 mornings in a row with this word on my mind telling me I had to write about it.

There are just so many aspects of recovery that enter our lives. How do we recover? What happens in our minds and bodies? Does one recover faster than the other? In a structural injury and recovery it’s all about starting. We often start with a therapist and get super motivated and when recovery doesn’t happen as quickly as we expect it to, the mind begins a very often confusing dialogue. Some days optimistic and other days the doom sets in.

Slowly but surely healing does take place and once we are all better we hardly remember the ups and downs of the healing process.

When there is a an internal organ problem and surgeries are involved things can get much trickier. From the outside you might look alright but on the inside you feel pulled in ways that are hard to describe. Scar tissue settles in and you know it is there but you don’t fully know what it is doing to you because you don’t see it. You will fully heal according to doctors and blood tests but you might always feel something is not right.

Recovery from physical and mental traumas and diagnostics are on yet another level. Is there ever full recovery or is there always a lingering fear that the trauma/issue might return?

Recovery is a term that is so vast and we each have a personal relationship with it.

03/29/2026

I have been traveling and then just taught the 3 day cranial and intra oral training. This is one of the most powerful Yamuna trainings because it radically increases circulation into your skull, brain, jaw, sinuses, ears, in short, it increases performance of all parts of your cranium and gets rid of tension patterns in your jaw and entire skull and mouth.

Everybody needs this work. We all have patterns in chewing and clenching that began years ago. For some of us this begins at birth, for others patterns of nursing and sucking, for others dental reasons can be huge.

Night guards/dental guards are not really the solution for most people. People who use them are still clenching but doing less damage to their teeth is what dentists explain.

This Yamuna work helps you to break old patterns and to greatly improve your jaw and circulation into your brain.

I stayed with friends a few weeks ago and the wife suffered for years from TMJ. Clenching and grinding waking up in pain even with a night guard was her daily state of being. After 3 days of releasing tension in her skull and mouth and teaching how to do it to herself, she is pain free and no longer needs her night guard.

None of this is hard to learn. You just need to do it!

03/14/2026

Intraoral Training With Yamuna - https://mailchi.mp/yamunausa/new-intraoral-training-with-yamuna-7543362

03/10/2026

Intraoral Training With Yamuna - https://mailchi.mp/yamunausa/new-intraoral-training-with-yamuna-7543331

03/05/2026

NEW! Intraoral Training With Yamuna LIVE ONLINE March 25-27 - https://mailchi.mp/yamunausa/new-intraoral-training-with-yamuna-7543309

03/02/2026

Why settle for "feeling okay" when you can feel incredible? Upcoming trainings include: Intraoral, Foot Fitness, AnatomyU, Yamuna Body Rolling and more - https://mailchi.mp/yamunausa/live-online-yamuna-training-programs-7543158

02/28/2026

Here are some photos taken during the Body Logic training. After these 10 days they can now work on the entire body. The next session become more and more detailed and focused. It has been amazing to watch how truly they are all grasping the work. This is not easy due to all the detail. We try not to miss anything when we are working an entire person. We never blame one muscle for any problem. We work the entire body looking for all the possible connections which are part of the complaint. Once we work with someone and help to realign, decompress and correct any issues, then we teach them the Body Rolling work to help
Maintain and Prevent to problem from recurring. The Yamuna work is truly a complete system where we count on the client to participate from start to finish.

02/27/2026

People have no idea how the osition of their intestines can affect their lower back, digestion, hips, posture and so much more. It is also possible to lift and align the large intestines. It can be very easy to see the position of the intestines just watching a person breathing. Surgeries and scar tissue can also cause the large intestines to adhere to the small intestines and spine and fascia.
In a Body Logic session a practitioner can study the position of the large intestines and begin to realign it. The results can be quite illuminating. A chronic hip or back or knee problem just might be connected to a stuck large intestine. #

02/25/2026

We are moving into our 8th day of the Body Logic training. We are doing this training at a large apartment complex where we stay in Florida. As I walk through the building I see so many people compromised in their bodies. Sometimes it personally hurts me to see others struggling while just trying to walk. Many people here go to the gym to keep moving or they walk each morning. They go to the gym and train with their bodies in serious misalignment. They walk limping. Yesterday we were talking to a woman with one knee replacement. Her other foot was completely collapsed. Her doctor said soon she will need the other knee replaced. We showed her how to stand on her outer foot and the knee straightened and she stood straighter. She could feel how she wasn’t collapsing. Her trainer told her if they work on her foot she will not need a knee replacement. It was great to hear her trainer was in agreement with my observation. The only problem was that he wanted her to strengthen her big toe and build muscle on the inner foot. She has no use of her outer or middle foot.

Most people do not have access to all the Yamuna work or to any other work that addresses alignment and function first. How do we reach the masses so that aging can be done with ease and grace in movement?

02/22/2026