Yoga
Benefits of Yoga
- Reduces stress and anxiety by promoting relaxation and mindful breathing
- Improves strength and flexibility through stretching and weight-bearing poses
- Supports better posture and balance by strengthening the core and improving body
awareness - Improves sleep and helps you relax before bedtime
- Improves concentration and mindfulness, which supports emotional well-being
- Helps with some types of chronic pain, particularly lower-back and neck pain
- Encourages overall well-being by combing movement, breathing, and relaxation
Yoga also facilitates spiritual growth
- Self-awareness with meditation and mindful movement
- Inner peace with breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation which quiets the
mental distractions and creates a sense of calm - Mindfulness: Practicing staying present rather than constantly focusing on the past or future
- Self-discipline: regular practice develops patience, consistency and control over
Impulses - Self-Reflection: Yogic philosophy encourages examining your values, actions and Relationship with yourself and others
- Connection: Yoga fosters a feeling of connection with other people, nature . Also
Depending on one’s beliefs = a higher or divine reality - Compassion and non-harming: Traditional yoga emphasizes principles such as AHIMSA ( nonviolence), encourages kindness toward yourself and others.
- Letting Go: Helps to cultivate acceptance and reduce attachment to outcomes,
Supporting emotional and spiritual maturity.
Dr. Bella teaches yoga
Dr. Bella, my yoga instructor, is truly exceptional. She prepares thoughtfully for every session, blending meaningful spiritual guidance with physical stretching and physical stretching and poses that leave me feeling centered, strong and restored. Her presence, knowledge and care shine through in everything she does. I'm consistently impressed and recommend her wholeheartedly to anyone seeking a deeper, more enriching experience.
— Craig L.
I’ve been a yoga student for 27 years and I find it to be a very enjoyable, healthy, relaxing and life affirming practice that also improves overall tone and body awareness.
Dr. Bella, I enthusiastically recommend as a yoga teacher. She can teach to all levels from total beginner onward, with a gentle, thoughtful approach that helps students build confidence and skills, to enhance relaxation and health.
Dr. Bella is a great communicator with extensive background in health care, as a retired chiropractor and the founder of the Holistic Health Clinic (est. 1987), still a thriving practice in downtown Beaverton. She is a lifelong yoga practitioner who has travelled to India for advanced studies on teaching yoga. If you want tone and relax all in one practice I highly recommend giving Dr. Bella’s class a try, she is a great resource in the community.
— Yoga student, Tracey
Yoga Classes and Ideas
1.5 Minute Yoga Practice
Dr. Bella does a one and a half minute yoga warm up
Three Minute Yoga Practice
Dr. Bella does a three minute yoga practice
Five Minute Yoga Practice
Enjoy this relaxing five minute yoga practice.
Pranayama for Smoke and Fire
Dr. Bella tells a story about a fire she and her family lived through when she was a child. This is a prelude to a Pranayama Practice to assist with people dealing with wild fires. The following is a video of that practice. This is a yoga practice to help with dealing...
Dr. Bella Box Teaches Yoga with Sheena Miraftabi
1-Minute Preview Video 25-Minute Yoga Class Video Dr. Bella Box teaches yoga to Sheena Miraftabi with a little help from Frankie and Tommy.
Gentle Yoga with Dr. Bella
An Ayurvedic treatment called a Panchakarma
In this video Bella talks about her 5 week trip to Southern India to an Ayurvedic Healing Village called Vaidyagrama. Bella did an Ayurvedic treatment called a Panchakarma. Bella talks about what a Panchakarma is and how she felt at the end of the treatment.
Why T’ai Chi Chih and Yoga?
Dr. Box talks about her Therapy Dog Tommy. She also talks about the importance of doing T'ai Chi Chih and Yoga, both of which she teaches, and she invites you to contact her to get private instruction. Finally, she reads a quote from Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
Bella Talks Yoga, Now Certified to Teach
Bella announces she has become certified to teach yoga and talks about the typical things she does in a yoga session, such as breathing exercises (pranayama), poses (asanas) and shavasana at the end.
The 4th chakra, giving and receiving, and keeping it all in balance
Bella talks about chakras in general, the 4th chakra specifically and talks about giving and receiving and keeping it all in balance.
Dr. Box Interviews Indian Sitar, Surbahar, and Music Composer Deobrat Mishra
Dr. Box interviews Deobrat Mishra — an Indian Sitar, Surbahar, and music composer. He is an exponent of the Benares Gharana school of Hindustani classical music. In this interview Deobrat talks about the seven chakras, how they correlate to the seven notes of the...
Dr. Bella Does Yoga in the Street
Marcella Box, DC, founder of Holistic Health Clinic in Beaverton, Oregon, arranged to have her Hot Yoga in the Street Teacher lead a yoga class in front of their newly remodeled clinic.
Bella Box Interview on TCC, Yoga, and Dance
Check Out Soul Motion, A Conscious Dance Practice I feel nourished by enjoying Conscious Dancing with Vinn Martinez, Founder of Soul Motion. Vinn Martinez inspires us with the conscious dance. Soul Motion holds weekly Zoom events. — Dr. Bella Box