Y.C. Yoga for Life Center

Yvette Cobb is one very dynamic lady who clearly has been put on this earth for one reason: to help people.

Yvette is the founder of Y.C. Yoga for Life Center. Her mission is to utilize her professional skills as a Registered Nurse, Nurse & Holistic Health Practitioner and a certified International Yoga Teacher to serve as God’s instrument in providing services to promote education, good health and total well being to all.

She is dedicated to helping everyone achieve the optimum level of health naturally with a unique blend of Eastern and Western philosophies. Yvette has traveled extensively around the world to study with the master healers to obtain her vast knowledge.

We filmed this past Saturday with Yvette and a group of her students as they practiced the Kundalini style of yoga. As a filmmaker/producer, I was drawn to learn more about this style because I had filmed with Alan and Lisa while filming at the University of Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Alan is just now starting his journey with dementia. Lisa had talked about a certain style of yoga they practice because it helps Alan with his symptoms. I am familiar with a variety of forms of yoga but have never heard of Kundalini. After a bit of research, I found Yvette who I am sure is considered one of Michigan's foremost authorities on this style.

Kundalini Yoga was taught from Master to student for thousands of years and intersects with the lineage of the Sikh Masters, such as Guru Nanak, Guru Ram Das and Guru Gobind Singh for the past 500 years.

The practice awakens the kundalini in order to be able to call upon the full potential of the nervous and glandular systems and to balance the subtle system of chakras and meridians within the body. "Kriya" is an orchestrated pattern of movements, sound, pranayama, mudras, concentration and meditation that automatically guide the energies of the body and the mind to a specific result or change of consciousness.

While you may be reading this and be of the mindset of disbelief, I can tell you from filming with dementia patients and loved ones, anything that can help slow the progression down or even keep the rest of us cognitively healthier is a welcome tactic in this fight against dementia. So much of what we know is what we don’t know and the medical world does not have that silver bullet yet. So an open mind may just lead to your shaper memory as we age.

I am excited to be able to feature this style of yoga in our film, we want to thank all of the students of Yoga for Life who let us film with them on Saturday morning. To learn more about Yoga for Life, please visit their website, http://www.yflcenter.com.

To learn more about how you can support this very important film, please go to: http://ontodaysfrontlines.com/alzheimers/