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SCI Superstar: Mary-Jo Fetterly
Meet SPINALpedia's SCI Superstar this week Mary-Jo Fetterly! A former vegetarian chef and yoga teacher, she became a renowned adaptive yoga teacher post-injury. Now the founder of the yoga studio in Vancouver, Trinity Yoga, she's sharing with the world that indeed if you can breath, anyone can do yoga.
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SCI Superstar: Matthew Sanford
Learn the backstory on my awesome yoga teacher, Matthew Sanford on SPINALpedia! A paraplegic for over three decades, find out how ts Yogi master has homed in on the importance of the mind body relationship post-injury, and how he's sharing it with others at his amaaazing yoga studio, Mind Body Solutions.
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Learn to love your entire body with yoga
Adapted yoga has transformed my life is so many amazing ways since my spinal cord injury.
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Two video-fied extremes of ‘adaptive’ yoga
“Wheelchair yoga?” Nah, I’ll take the term “adaptive yoga” any day. Getting out of your wheelchair and onto the mat is one of the best things about an adaptive yoga class. An “out of the wheelchair” yoga class is more like it. The following two videos – one of a crazily agile paraplegic, the other a high level quadriplegic who needs assistance when practicing – show how no matter your level of spinal cord injury, you can still get out of the chair and do yoga. The first video comes from our member Wheelz04. He is a T6-8 paraplegic and is totally into yoga. Since he has full upper-body movement…