Fall doesn’t just mean pumpkin spice lattes. It means that you will likely start to hear a cacophony of sniffles and coughs when you’re ordering said pumpkin spice latte — or wherever you go. It’s a great time to thinking about your yoga practice as a tool for building resilience and boosting your immune health.
Iyengar Yoga teacher Lisa Walford joins me this week to talk about her approach to yoga for immune health. She shares ideas for how to use asana, pranayama, and meditation as part of your support system. She also shares how a diagnosis of HIV in 1985 not only challenged her, but ultimately helped her understand her own immune health more intimately.
This conversation is a beautiful reminder of the many ways that yoga can help us to heal when we start from a place of care and attention.
About Lisa: Lisa Walford holds a Level III (formerly Intermediate Senior II) Iyengar teaching certificate and has been teaching yoga in Los Angeles since 1982. She continues her studies annually with the Iyengars, in Pune, India, and teaches worldwide. Lisa is the curriculum director for the Teacher Training Program at The Center for Yoga in Los Angeles. Previously, she co-created the Teacher Training Program at YogaWorks. She is on the advisory board of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the Yoga Studies program at Loyola Marymount University.
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You can take classes with Lisa online, through Center for Yoga. Go to their schedule here and then filter the class by teacher to see her offerings.
You can also learn more about Lisa and sign up for her newsletter here
If you’re looking for an asana practice, check out our yoga for immune health sequence on our blog (this is a sequence created a few years ago by Jason)
