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Have you ever left a yoga class feeling more frustrated than fulfilled? You're not alone. I...
Tightness is a protective mechanism. It's our brain's way of holding our body together when we're...
One recent morning, I woke up, walked myself to the bathroom, and spent a good long moment making...
I have a confession to make: I have an anterior pelvic tilt.
An anterior pelvic tilt is...
Take a deep breath in through your nose, and a cleansing breath out through your mouth.
Those are...
A few years ago, I noticed a sharp pain on the inside of my right shoulder blade.
The pain would...
A few years ago, I was a full-time yoga teacher in chronic pain.
My deep sense of shame stopped...
I love checking in with students before teaching a yoga class. It gives me a pulse on what...
Our ankles are designed to transfer force from our wide and highly adaptable foot, up vertically...
For the modern human, our feet don’t have to be strong because we’ve outsourced that...
In her book, Yoga Biomechanics Stretching Redefined, Jules Mitchell defines seven different...
Our muscles are designed to do one job. They are designed to contract.
We contract our muscles...
How exactly might we approach incorporating progressive loading into our yoga...
Muscles attach to bones in order to move them. When we stretch a muscle, we are drawing two ends...
I started practicing yoga at home a few years ago due to the utility.
Sure, I liked...
We have more than 400 individual nerves in our body, all connected like a network of roads.
They...
As a yoga person, I got to a point after many years of practice where I felt like I was no longer...
When people talk to me about knee pain during yoga, they often describe two things. Either...
Our joints are comprised of two or more bones coming together to allow a certain range of...
Inhale, reach your arms up! Exhale, forward fold. Inhale, jump back to plank. Exhale,...
When I teach a group yoga class, I mark out certain spots to scan the room and look for trends....
When I started practicing yoga in my early 20s, everything felt great. I practiced a sweaty...
Push-ups aren’t merely a goal with aesthetic benefits.
There’s great value in...
When most of us think of yoga, we imagine rolling out a yoga mat and practicing a series of body...
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