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How best to deal with your emotions – negative and positive

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 17, 2018 | Health News | 0 Comments

Our culture celebrates positive emotions and despises negative emotions. We want to be happy, joyful, content, and proud. We don’t want to be sad, angry, fearful, anxious, and ashamed. This division penetrates the entire society. When a little child gets angry, her...

Do Not Try Another Relationship Until You Learn What it REALLY MEANS To Love Yourself

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 17, 2018 | Health News, Women's Studies | 0 Comments

There are tons of advice floating out there on how to start loving yourself. Here is a typical example: It reads: "Begin your day with love (not technology). Remind yourself of your worthiness before getting out of bed. Breathe in love and breathe out love. Enfold...

Vipassana: How to Avoid Severe Psychological and Physical Side Effects & Harm

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 17, 2018 | Mindfulness, Soma for the Soul | 0 Comments

Recent decades have seen an explosion in the popularity of Vipassana meditation, with millions of people learning and practicing this and other modalities of meditation. This raises two important questions. - Does Vipassana bring valuable benefits? The answer is a...

Never Suffer From Overstretching in Yoga Again

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 17, 2018 | Fascia | 0 Comments

Yoga is a wonderful practice and it has many benefits. A couple of years ago, I spent a good chunk of time teaching soma system® at various yoga studios and Wanderlust yoga festivals. This gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with many yogis and yoga...

Sleeping pills: Do not help you sleep [better]. See why…

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 16, 2018 | Sleep | 0 Comments

New pharmaceutical treatments move into clinical medicine quickly, as they are championed and ushered into medicine by drug companies’ marketing departments. Within the past 20 years, scientists have made substantial progress in deciphering connections and...

Stress: How it changes you from the inside

by Roman Torgovitsky Ph.D | Apr 16, 2018 | Clinician's Corner, Soma for the Soul | 0 Comments

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you had a magic pill that could heal and normalize your essential body systems, like your nervous, endocrine, and immune systems? In fact, this pill exists! Moreover, the pill is free, and you have had it your entire life! You just never...

Releasing Myofascial Restriction for Yoga: TFL

by Soma System | Mar 27, 2018 | Athletes and Artists | 0 Comments

How often do you see people meditating in this posture? After reading this article, you will learn the following: – Why this posture could be counterproductive for your meditation and dangerous for your knees. – How to release myofascial structures that prevent thighs...

10 Minutes to a Better Teaser [Before and After!]

by Liv Rachelle | Nov 25, 2014 | Athletes and Artists | 0 Comments

Guest Contributor: Nichole L’vov, Pilates Instructor Teaser is one of the most challenging exercises in the Pilates mat repertoire. It requires a complex series of movements and rapid firing of multiple muscles in order to accomplish. Many Pilates enthusiasts find...

Name That Muscle [CONTEST]

by Liv Rachelle | Nov 7, 2014 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

You use this muscle when you flare your nostrils. This muscle has two regions. The buccal branch of the facial nerve innervates it. Think you know the answer? Send your guess to liv@somasystem.com. All correct entries will be entered into a raffle. One lucky winner...

4 Tips for Banishing Headaches

by Liv Rachelle | Nov 6, 2014 | Clinician's Corner, Self Bodywork Videos | 0 Comments

“You’re giving me a headache!” How often do we find ourselves screaming this to family members or coworkers who are getting on our case? For many of us though, this statement can be very true. According to the National Headache Foundation, over 45 million Americans...