Man Sentenced to Yoga Classes for Slapping His Wife

Dear Ones,

Only in America, God/ess bliss America y'all.

HOUSTON - A man convicted of slapping his wife has been sentenced to yoga classes. Judge Larry Standley said yoga should help James Lee Cross with his anger management.

Cross was ordered to take the class as part of his yearlong probation. The judge said Cross' case is unique and prosecutors agreed. Cross claimed he hit his wife during a New Year's Eve argument about her drinking problem.

Cross said he hopes the yoga will also help him lose weight. Standley, who is known for his creative sentencing, has in the past ordered dozens of people convicted of drunken driving to collect newspaper clippings about the crime.

If I was Jewish I'd say oy vey! This is the funniest and best yoga news I've heard in years. what a testimonial to how yoga is now mainstream acceptable. Perhaps our new supreme court nominee will advocate yoga as a supreme remedy for pain and suffering for many more Americans.

Now click your heels together and say, "there's no place like om, there's no place like om....there's no place like om....

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This job is killing me

Dear Nurses,

Be Honest. Have you ever said these words to yourself or to other nurses, family, anybody who would listen? Hmmm? As an advocate for nurses, I currently teach meditation, stress management, and medical yoga to nurses at my local hospital to help them with morale and wellness on the job. Shockingly, I often hear nurses say these exact words to me: "This job is killing me and I’d kill to get off the floor.” It shocked me because I too said those very words at times in my nursing career, but never out loud, and only to myself. These words are engraved in my psyche as the global lament of way too many nurses. Never mind what country, color, religion or background of the nurse, (I have worked in Canada and the USA) it is the same story and not a pretty one. Read on dear nursing sisters and brothers for there is ever hope.

Why is this job killing me? There are endless reasons why nurses are “dying” from their work and why the job is literally making them sick. Just a few examples that you can surely relate to: Insufficient staffing most of the time, overwork, impossibly long shifts, endless charting, little time for patient care, working with inexperienced nurses, burnt out nurses, slackers, disrespect, conflicts between nurses, nurses and doctors, managers, management, lawsuits and liability, being abused by patients i.e. hitting, biting, scratching, punching, yelling, poor health issues, obesity because the only reward is eating…that is, if you get the chance on any given shift, accusations of improper care, etc. etc. etc… (Your turn, fill in the blanks____. _____. _____.). Enough already, you get the idea.

Question: Why is there insufficient staffing?

Answer: Because nobody wants the job! Why? Because the truth is that nursing is one of the world’s hardest jobs.

Regarding the lament of insufficient staffing and improper care, there are multiple reasons. When I worked nights on the floor of the PCU, one or more nurses called in sick almost every shift. Naturally we were working with a skeleton crew. What else is new? Quite frankly, it's a miracle that there isn't MORE that goes wrong on any given shift. It is by the grace of GOD/ESS, spirit, angels that we nurses and our patients are carried to safety the vast majority of the time. I work with nurses who have been showing up for 12 -13 hour shifts for 25-30 years! Many are on multiple medications for blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, anxiety and--and--and--they do an excellent job! I was fortunate to work with a brilliant staff that provided excellent care, as I am sure you do as well. Yet even with this, there are some who are just plain burnt out, and show up because they have no other choice but to pay the bills. The bottom line: INSUFFICIENT STAFFING = INSUFFICIENT CARE = BURN OUT = NURSING SHORTAGE.

“IF you choose to stay in nursing, you cannot change what is, example: colleagues calling out sick; however, you can learn how... to be... with what is.”

The Solution: Every night, when I walked from the hospital staff parking lot onto the main floor and up the elevator to the floor of the PCU, I never knew what I might face on that long night shift ahead. I called on my angels to surround me and to keep my patients safe; I repeated my mantra, personal prayer as I entered the hospital "to do no harm”. It grounded me and gave me a sense of clarity and peace of mind, instead of going to pieces. By grace, it always worked. May you, in the light of wisdom, learn how to meditate, to pray with your heart, and melt away your stress in gentle, therapeutic yoga for self care and heart-felt patient care. You will learn how to be with what is. You will be, and become a source of, inspiration to all whom you work with, helping to decrease burn out and heal the wounded nursing soul.

Do enjoy a wellness retreat that will teach, inspire AND renew your life and nursing career to what it is destined to be. It is my work as a nurse/healer/educator to offer these retreats on the healing Crystal Coast of North Carolina. I encourage you to learn more about my Retreats for Nurses.

Take a two minute breathing break now, my gift to you.

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What is Yoga Nursing?

Yoga Nurse Mission:

To create a global army of modern nightingales, yoga nurses, to uplift our ailing health care system; to relieve pain and suffering and increase quality of life by caring for patients and for nurses with therapeutic yoga nursing.

1. What is Yoga Nursing?

Yoga Nursing® is the holistic, healing practice of caring and compassion provided by licensed nursing professionals who are also certified medical yoga teachers. Its mission is to create a global army of modern nightingales, yoga nurses, who will uplift the ailing health care system and relieve pain and suffering for both patients and for nurses.

2. What prompted you to create this field?

I took a training in Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga, in the mid 1990’s with the brilliant Deepak Chopra and David Simon Mds. At that time I was a full time yoga teacher and they inspired me. I thought “Wow! If I became a nurse as well as being a yoga teacher, I could really make a difference in the quality of people’s lives.” Once, while I was still in nursing school teaching a yoga class, one of my students called me the yoga nurse! That‘s when the Yoga Nurse and the field of Yoga Nursing was officially created. I graduated from nursing and it became crystal clear that there was a natural fit between traditional western based nursing knowledge and the ancient eastern science of yoga. The marriage of therapeutic yoga and nursing offers people the best of both worlds and insures the greatest success in their healing.

3. How does therapeutic yoga help people with grave illness?

Therapeutic yoga improves the function of the nervous and immune systems, increases function of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, decreases chronic pain, anxiety, depression and so much more. I have cared for numerous patients with cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, anxiety and depression to name a few grave illnesses. I have witnessed exciting and often dramatic improvements AND I have numerous testimonials; in addition there is now an abundance of clinical evidence provided from the NIH (National Institute of Health).

4. How can Yoga Nursing help to alleviate work place stress?

Work related stress, anxiety and depression costs American businesses billions of dollars. Yoga Nursing helps to decrease work-related stress which leads to improved morale, productivity, decreased absentee-ism, less employee turnover and fewer work place accidents.

5. What made you switch careers from the Hollywood high life to Yoga Nursing?

I believe it was destiny. Everything we do in life prepares us for our ultimate role or service. Although I was one of the fortunate ones to make a living in show biz, I felt increasingly empty in my heart and soul and my life took a radical turn. I decided to “leave the business before it left me” and ultimately dedicate my life to caring for others. Hollywood gave me a terrific training ground for my final role as the Yoga Nurse!

Your Over doing is your undoing!

Are you addicted to thinking? How about suffering? Sound familiar? Yes, my work as the yoga nurse and yoga nursing is to help up-lift our ailing health care system with the jewels from the East and the gifts of the West. The quickest way to be free of these addictions is with the practices of yoga, ayurveda and the meditation method of Self-Inquiry.

After years of searching for liberation from suffering I have stopped shopping. I stopped shopping for the truth, 14 years ago when destiny brought me to meet a brilliant and enlightened German doctor who guided me to the last stop on my shopping tour. Drs. Deepak Chopra and David Simon inspired me with ayurveda. Dr. Hugo Maier introduced me to the great sage and saint Ramana Maharshi and the foundation for my becoming a nurse/healer and creating the new field of yoga nursing was birthed. I sustain my clarity with the ongoing wisdom of A.Ramana, the founder of the 30 year old AHAM center in North Carolina. www.aham.com

Stay tuned for more on how to be Free from addiction to thinking and suffering or at the very least have a blessed break from these obsessive, compulsive pastimes and experience calm and serenity.