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Have you ever left a yoga class feeling more frustrated than fulfilled? You're not alone. I recently...

Tightness is a protective mechanism. It's our brain's way of holding our body together when we're mi...

One recent morning, I woke up, walked myself to the bathroom, and spent a good long moment making ey...

Take a deep breath in through your nose, and a cleansing breath out through your mouth.

Those are w...

A few years ago, I noticed a sharp pain on the inside of my right shoulder blade.

The pain would us...

A few years ago, I was a full-time yoga teacher in chronic pain.

My deep sense of shame stopped me ...

I love checking in with students before teaching a yoga class. It gives me a pulse on what everyo...

Our ankles are designed to transfer force from our wide and highly adaptable foot, up vertically thr...

For the modern human, our feet don’t have to be strong because we’ve outsourced that job to our shoe...

In her book, Yoga Biomechanics Stretching Redefined, Jules Mitchell defines seven different types of...

Our muscles are designed to do one job. They are designed to contract.

We contract our muscles when...

How exactly might we approach incorporating progressive loading into our yoga practice?  

After all...

Muscles attach to bones in order to move them. When we stretch a muscle, we are drawing two ends of ...

I started practicing yoga at home a few years ago due to the utility. 

Sure, I liked the communi...

We have more than 400 individual nerves in our body, all connected like a network of roads.

They ea...

As a yoga person, I got to a point after many years of practice where I felt like I was no longer de...

When people talk to me about knee pain during yoga, they often describe two things. Either there’s p...

Our joints are comprised of two or more bones coming together to allow a certain range of motion. 

Inhale, reach your arms up! Exhale, forward fold. Inhale, jump back to plank. Exhale, chaturanga. 

When I teach a group yoga class, I mark out certain spots to scan the room and look for trends. The ...

When I started practicing yoga in my early 20s, everything felt great. I practiced a sweaty vinyasa ...

Push-ups aren’t merely a goal with aesthetic benefits. 

There’s great value in learning how to push...

When most of us think of yoga, we imagine rolling out a yoga mat and practicing a series of body pos...