About

As you are well aware if you have sought and found this page, bipolar disorder is a devastating illness that can destroy families and lives.

My name is David Morgan. I have bipolar disorder.

I’m also a yoga teacher. I teach yoga full time.

I can speak from personal experience as someone with bipolar disorder who has stared over the cliffs of despair more than once.

There is hope. Proper medication, nutrition, exercise, and sleep can go a long way in managing the symptoms of bipolar disorder. (Let’s start by drinking a glass of water — get one now.)

But that’s just a start.

The blessing hidden in the bipolar curse
In my experience, bipolar disorder can be both a blessing and a curse. It is both the shackle of suffering and the key to liberation, creativity and fulfillment. It is through my own struggle with bipolar (and co-occurring alcoholism/addiction) that I continue to find purpose and meaning in life.There can be no true spiritual awakening without true despair. And it is by making my own suffering mean something that I can share it, bringing others hope.That’s the purpose of this page. To bring hope to people suffering either directly or indirectly from the often savage effects of bipolar disorder, and to offer a direct course of action.You see, there are yoga exercises that can not only alleviate many of the symptoms of bipolar disorder almost immediately…

…but give you an experience of yourself as a whole person — the real, beautiful you that may be buried beneath the layers of guilt and shame, uncontrollable emotions, brain chemistry, mood swings, racing thoughts, personalities we seem unable to change — all those things which we mistake as ourselves, as our identity.

Nope. Those things are just the surface layer.

The other part of you, the “real” you, if you will, is already fine, always at peace and connected to your Source, or the Divine, the Great Mystery, God, or however you want to call it.

Yoga is a very important part of an integrated approach to managing my bipolar illness. I think it can help you, too.

Yoga helped me pick through the many layers of bipolar disorder to see that my wild mood swings stemmed almost always from an unhappiness that my life wasn’t going the way I thought it should, that my existence was meaningless, that I couldn’t ever meet the expectations of family and society even if I tried, and that I felt trapped.

Yoga opened the trap, allowing the sensitive, creative (sometimes angry) me to step out and find a constructive voice. This is the jewel hidden in the bipolar curse — the ability to live life more fully, allowing my vulnerability and sensitivity to bubble to the surface as a strength rather than a weakness.

I’ve developed a series of yoga exercises especially for people with bipolar disorder. These are breathing exercises, postures, and meditations not only to relieve specific mood states (depressed, hypomanic, mixed, etc.), but also to help you get in touch with the true you lying dormant under the veneer of brain chemistry.

Please keep an eye out for the release of these yoga exercises in the next few weeks as Yoga for Bipolar Disorder.

If you have a story to tell about your own experience with bipolar disorder and yoga, please share it on this site’s forum.
Through the study of yoga, I discovered a number of practices particularly beneficial for bipolar symptoms.

Those practices are what I’d like to share with you through the forthcoming release of Yoga for Bipolar Disorder.

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