Yoga for Computer Users | Sandy Blaine | Talks at Google
10Author Sandy Blaine visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Ca, to discuss her book "Yoga for Computer Users". This event took place August 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. For more information about Sandy and the book, please visit http://www.sandyblaine.com/
More and more people depend on computers for work and entertainment, which means more and more hours spent slumped in a chair -- and more and more hand, wrist, neck, shoulder and lower back injuries. Yoga for Computer Users was written to help stem this epidemic of musculo-skeletal injuries through a yoga-based program of preventive self-care, using simple but effective exercises to teach people how to support and maintain healthy posture, relieve neck and shoulder tension and help prevent injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. You can use this program regardless of your age or yoga experience, and many of the exercises are designed to be done right at your desk. This event will be participatory and interactive, with some instructor-led chair stretches as well as discussion and Q&A.
Sandy Blaine has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, and teaching and writing about yoga since 1993. A founding member and co-director of the Alameda Yoga Station and author of Yoga for Healthy Knees and Yoga For Computer Users, she is also the long-time in-house yoga instructor for Pixar Animation Studios. Her writing has also been published in a number of magazines, including Yoga Journal, Yoga International and Ascent. Sandy believes that greater health, well-being and joy are available to everyone and strives to share the gifts of yoga with others through her work.
For more information about Sandy's books, go to http://www.rodmellpress.com/index2.html
For more information about classes with Sandy, http://www.alamedayogastation.com/