by Nina Melting Ice at Blackstone River by Marie Lossky (@Marie.Lossky on Instagram) “Two components of yoga that helped eliminate the chronic pain were learning how to relax, and learning how to tune in to my body to recognize when muscle tension was contributing to pain. Rather than accepting discomfort, or powering through discomfort, or ignoring discomfort, I learned to pay attention to my body, to tune in to my body, to stop doing the things that made it hurt (duh!), to recognize tension and to practice consciously and actively letting it go.” —Ramona Pittman   Baxter’s interview with Shelly Prosko last week made it very clear that western medicine is failing people with chronic pain. Even though there is now an understanding that just prescribing pain medications isn’t a good solution, simply withdrawing the medication without providing alternative treatments is backfiring. But, as Shelly pointed out, yoga can help address this problem!  Yoga provides several different p...