Eventually, Susan was diagnosed with chronic fatigue, chronic stress and chronic pain. She then had no choice but to slow her life down, get back to the basics, eliminate several things off her to do list and rest. Graham then turned to a specialty style and unique branch of yoga called Restorative Yoga. The benefits Graham experienced from this practice were life altering. Allowing herself to heal and recover from years of use and abuse on her physical body, Graham began to rehabilitate her injuries by creating ‘structural stabilization’ with her injured body parts. Restorative Yoga poses allow your nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system to slow down long enough to affect your physiology therefore release trauma. Your physiology will adjust, align and unwind, including the skeletal system if one can allow themselves to truly rest, supported in Restorative Yoga poses. Foameez Props became a product of necessity in order for Susan to recover in a soft, easeful, safe way. Traditional yoga props used for support in resting poses are hard and cumbersome. The hard blocks yoga teachers typically use are very uncomfortable to rest on, in a pose for 3-20 minutes. Foameez Props are soft and light, and allow your body to sink and melt into each pose and truly experience restoration.
One of the greatest benefits that Graham discovered is that resting the body in proper alignment allowed the injuries and repetitive strains to recover and repair themselves with no surgery required!