Restorative Yoga is about relaxing into each pose, allowing the earth to hold you completely. Using props like blankets, bolsters, and blocks, the body is fully supported so that you can release layer after layer of tension. This resets the nervous system toward rest...
Integrative Health Care Blog
Helping you navigate the path toward your best health.
Mindful Yoga is a Treatment for the Whole Self
Yoga, at its heart, is therapeutic. It is an ancient system of connecting the mind and body so that they move together and support health and vitality. Though it is popular to use yoga as a means to fitness goals, that is a narrow interpretation of a comprehensive...
Go for a Walk
Our bodies are made to move, and specifically, to walk. We are fundamentally designed to use our feet to move from one place to another. This means that, on a biological level, walking activates important physical processes and balances our bodies in important and...
What is Yamuna® Body Rolling?
Yamuna® Body Rolling is a self-care and self-conditioning technique that uses specialized therapy balls to treat specific body parts. It is able to address multiple layers of tissue, including skin, fascia, muscle, and bone, as well as work with connective tissues,...
The Therapeutic Benefits of Balls and Rollers
Therapy balls and rollers offer many of the benefits of bodywork, but with the accessibility of a self-care practice and classes. Bodywork and massage therapy has a long list of benefits for overall health, pain management, athletic performance, and immune function....
Self-Care
Our bodies require regular care in order to thrive and heal, and one of the best ways to make sure we are on top of our self-care is to put it on our schedule instead of trying to fit it in around everything else. As a health and wellness practice, HaLe' has...
Crackle and Pop: Knees and other Joints
Our knees and other joints can pop, grind, crunch, and make other interesting sounds. This can be alarming, causing worry about the health of the joint and whether the sounds are a sign of something serious. What makes those sounds: There are a lot of complex tissues...
Focus on Feeling Better: Therapeutic Movement
Our bodies are made to move. Deep biological processes in the organs, tissues, and nervous system are based on a foundation of physical movement and activity. This is why therapeutic movement can have such profound health and healing effects; the right kinds of...
Replenish Your Capacity to Give
Being generous brings joy and improves our overall health. However, our capacity to give can become depleted by stress, high expectations, and reduced feelings of empathy. In other words, we can feel so distressed that it becomes more difficult to connect with the...
Community Support for Self-Care
At HaLé, we encourage everyone to come to class. Our classes are designed to work for a wide variety of bodies, ages, and experience levels. They are all therapeutic and mindfulness-based, which means they help create health, reduce stress, and improve your overall...