Stimulate your cognitive function with physical exercise & meditation
Elizabeth St.Clair
GUEST SPEAKER / WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Early Memory Loss Conferences Skirball Institute,
Los Angeles; Cross Train Your Brain, UCLA with Dr Gary Small;
Young Parkinsonʼs Group, Cedars Sinai, Beverly Hills;
Wise Senior Center, Santa Monica, CA;
Alzheimerʼs Memory Club, Los Angeles;
Helping Hands, Leezaʼs Place, Los Angeles;
International Institute of Los Angeles;
Brookdale National Group Respite Program,
Early Memory Loss, Denver Colorado.
ELIZABETH ST.CLAIR, RYT, began her yoga studies in 1969 at UCLA with Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. She received her teaching certification in 1995 at Santa Monica Yoga, Santa Monica, CA, and has taught classes and workshops there continuously since 1996.
She is certified by Yoga Alliance, and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is a certified Relax and Renew Trainer (restorative yoga with Judith Lasater). She has completed advanced training in Yoga Nidra (iRest, Richard Miller, Ph.D) and Kundalini Yoga with Gururatanna Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. She studied Yoga Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.
YOGA BRAIN THERAPY (YOGA FOR THE BRAIN)
In 2002 one of her students developed Alzheimerʼs Disease. When he could no longer participate in her regular yoga classes, his care partners (his son and daughter-in law) asked her to teach him privately 3 times a week. This stimulated Elizabethʼs research in yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques to stimulate the brain, heighten alertness, and achieve a sense of mental equilibrium. The techniques that she uses are also effective for those who wish to delay cognitive decline and manage anxiety and stress. As brain scans have become more sophisticated, the benefits of Eastern healing practices are being validated by Western medicine. Some of the evidence-based techniques that she uses have been subjects of research studies in university medical settings including UCLA, The University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
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