My MS Yoga Program Baron Baptiste, an internationally acclaimed yoga instructor and author of the best seller: Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga , has teamed up with Dr. Elliot M. Frohman, the Director of the MS Program and Multiple Sclerosis Center of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, to offer a unique program of yoga instruction called My MS Yoga for people living with MS.
Biogen Idec and Elan Pharmaceuticals have sponsored this important wellness initiative and are offering free instructional classes in four major cities: Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Boston and Chicago. A free dvd for home practice is available as well at My MS Yoga.
Baron Baptiste, Yogi Master This Tuesday, March 30th, My Ms Yoga Program will be launched in Philadelphia at the Hilton on City Line Avenue. A local MS neurologist, Dr. Joan Sweeney of Crozer Chester Hospital and Medical Center will be present to answer medical questions participants may have while Baron Baptiste will instruct participants in the benefits of yoga for MS. He will also demo how this program, available through a free My MS Yoga dvd, can be incorporated for home practice and adapted to individual needs and preferences. To register for this Philadelphia free program, go to mymsyoga.com
Registration for this program begins at 5 pm
Intro to class begins at 5:30 pm
Yoga class runs from 6 to 7 pm
Light refreshments will be served 7 to 7:30 pm
Parking will be reimbursed.
Yoga has long been known to benefit those with MS. Dr. Allen C. Bowling, a MS specialist on the Health Care Advisory Council of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America has published widely on alternative and complementary interventions with MS. In his book: Complementary and Alternative Medicine and MS, he indicates:
Yoga is relatively inexpensive and generally safe. In MS, yoga has been shown to decrease fatigue. Although it has not been rigorously investigated, it is reported to improve depression, anxiety, pain and spasticity.”
The beauty of My MS Yoga is that this program provides an in home 
exercise routine that can be individualized to fit your needs to stretch and adapt modified poses. You can practice yoga and promote well being by adjusting My Ms Yoga to how you feel each day and to the particular ways that MS effects your movements and your body.
The free dvd can be obtained by visiting My MS Yoga website. It features 3 different program levels for practice with less advanced and slower pacing for days when that is preferred to more moderate and advanced poses, movements and pace when that is possible. Instruction in utilizing breathwork to reduce stress and muscle tension is included also.
The next My MS Yoga Program will be at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, VA on March 31st !
For more info: My Ms Yoga program at www.mymsyoga.com
Web MD Video: Yoga: Good Medicine for MS @ webmd
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