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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…
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Adaptive yoga teacher training recap
Twice a year I have the opportunity to help out with adaptive yoga teacher training weekends at my yoga studio Mind Body Solutions, a great non-profit. My yoga studio is one of the few yoga studios in the country that teaches adaptive yoga and they were the first to teach it in fact. My studio was founded by this amazing guy: Matt Sanford As you can see, Matt uses a wheelchair. He was paralyzed in a car accident when he was 13 years old and discovered yoga in his 20’s while living in California. He decided to found a studio in the early 90’s to teach to others what he figured out…
