Alia Bisat Movement Coaching and Yoga

09/02/2024

You deserve to be given options, you deserve to be seen and treated as a whole person, and you deserve to have space in the conversation to discuss the concerns about how the treatment will impact your quality of life.

You deserve to be given options, you deserve to be seen and treated as a whole person, and you deserve to have space in the conversation to discuss the concerns about how the treatment will impact your quality of life.

08/16/2024

I'd love your help. I'm compiling a list of body sensation words that usually relate to discomfort (pain, sore, tingling, numbing, sharp, dull, ache, etc.). Please message anything you can think of, I'll compile the full list, and I'll create a vocabulary wheel to share. Read below to understand why this might be important for you pain experience.

Some words like sharp or tingling are more consistent in how they’re used, but the difference between ache, and pain, and sore, for example, are often interchanged. More words means you have a more nuanced understanding of how you’re feeling which can alleviate fear and reduce pain. Read more below.

Some words like sharp or tingling are more consistent in how they’re used, but the difference between ache, and pain, and sore, for example, are often interchanged.   More words means you have a more nuanced understanding of how you’re feeling which can alleviate fear and reduc

05/15/2024

FREE WEBINAR: The Truths About Osteoarthritis
Thursday May 30th, 5pm-6pm EST

A FREE 60 minute presentation about our current understanding of Osteoarthritis. Discover the myths and the facts about osteoarthritis, uncovering the most up to date research on one of the most prevalent physical limitations in older adults. We’ll review the biggest misconceptions about OA, the most well researched and effective treatments, the key elements about the physiology of pain, AND an effective strategy for maintaining your physical functionality with OA. If you have OA, know a loved one with OA, or even experience other joint related pain, this presentation has plenty to offer.

Discover the myths and the facts about osteoarthritis, uncovering the most up to date research on one of the most prevalent physical limitations in older adults. You’ll leave armed with hope and a simple guideline for how to manage your condition.

02/03/2021

Strength to me is:
well managed load
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mobility
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actual muscle strength
We’ll focus on this first piece—particularly how to distribute load well—as we connect to the feet for stronger hips in tomorrow’s Strength for Yogis Workshop with
6pm, 90 minutes
Yes, it will be recorded.
Link in bio.

01/22/2021

5 years ago, I woke one morning and couldn’t move my neck. It took more than a month for my pain to go away and my neck mobility to return. Last month, it happened again. I had to cancel a day of sessions because I woke up and couldn’t move my neck. But less than a week later, my pain was almost 100% gone. How did I do it?
The more I learn about pain, the more I’m taken by it’s complexity. Mostly by aaaalll the factors that contribute toward our pain experience that are so powerful but that we may brush off. There’s the more obvious ones like sleep, stress, and nutrition.
Then there’s one like catastrophization—a tendency to magnify and ruminate about pain and having a helpless attitude toward actual or anticipated pain. This has been clearly linked to aches and pains becoming chronic pains.
I explain more in my most recent blog post, take a read. Link in bio.

10/09/2020

OUTDOOR CLASS ROUND 2
Sunday Oct. 11
2:30-4pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2
Sign Up Link in Bio

10/06/2020

AGE DOES NOT DEFINE YOUR BODY. She’s one of the most autonomous and self sufficient clients I have, and simultaneously one of the oldest. Her confidence in navigating the world has helped her control the pain from osteoarthritis in both her knees over the past couple of years. I showed her a few ways to trust her body getting down to the ground and back up, built her arm strength, and she’s taken it from there. Slated to schedule knee replacement surgery in the spring, she told me today she’ll likely cancel it 💪🏼💪🏼.

10/02/2020

One of my all time favorite warm ups. Either practice or on your own below or sign up for this months Mobility Membership and do it in class! LIB
Place one hand flat on the ground. Don’t move it. Don’t let your other hand touch the ground. Move in as many ways as possible.
Why is this so awesome?
1️⃣It’s a curiosity driven exploration of your body. It can also be a task driven problem solving game, which the brain loves, if you ask yourself things like “How can I get into my belly?” Or, “How can I end up with my hand behind me?”
2️⃣It’s amazing shoulder mobility work. Keeping our hand in a fixed position encourages the shoulder blade to move in various ways it otherwise may try to avoid during other daily activities.
3️⃣It’s full body mobility work! Every part of the body has to participate to explore all possible positions around the fixed hand.
4️⃣We’re remarkably inept at trusting our arms to support us. This is a safe way to explore that, with anyone being able to turn the volume up or down depending on physical ability.