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There are lots of things I avoid:
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Before the face tattoos, the public family feuds, the bankruptcy, the drug addictions, and the...
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...
When we hop into the car, Oli likes to crack the driver’s side window just enough to filter...
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...
When people talk to me about knee pain during yoga, they often describe two things. Either...
Push-ups aren’t merely a goal with aesthetic benefits.
There’s great value in...
For the modern human, our feet don’t have to be strong because we’ve outsourced that...
Let’s start with an experiment.
Let’s imagine that after a long day at work, we...
When I started practicing yoga in my early 20s, everything felt great. I practiced a sweaty...
As a yoga person, I got to a point after many years of practice where I felt like I was no longer...
In her book, Yoga Biomechanics Stretching Redefined, Jules Mitchell defines seven different...
At least once a week, I hear a student leave my class saying to a friend: “That was great,...
Inhale, reach your arms up! Exhale, forward fold. Inhale, jump back to plank. Exhale,...
We have more than 400 individual nerves in our body, all connected like a network of roads.
They...
When I teach a group yoga class, I mark out certain spots to scan the room and look for trends....
Our joints are comprised of two or more bones coming together to allow a certain range of...
Our muscles are designed to do one job. They are designed to contract.
We contract our muscles...
My first exposure to yoga was through a Groupon, which I reluctantly purchased at the...