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Our ankles are designed to transfer force from our wide and highly adaptable foot, up vertically...
At least once a week, I hear a student leave my class saying to a friend: “That was great,...
For the modern human, our feet don’t have to be strong because we’ve outsourced that...
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...
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...
Muscles attach to bones in order to move them. When we stretch a muscle, we are drawing two ends...
As a yoga person, I got to a point after many years of practice where I felt like I was no longer...
I started practicing yoga at home a few years ago due to the utility.
Sure, I liked...
When I teach a group yoga class, I mark out certain spots to scan the room and look for trends....
Inhale, reach your arms up! Exhale, forward fold. Inhale, jump back to plank. Exhale,...
The core goes by a lot of names. Trunk. Torso. Abdomen. Thorax. Way more than our six-pack...
I am passionate about helping people move well to feel better. I think part of this passion...
The first time I heard the phrase proximal stability for distal mobility my head spun a little...
We have more than 400 individual nerves in our body, all connected like a network of roads.
They...
Yoga props are objects designed to assist the flow of learning in our yoga practice either by...
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...
Our joints are comprised of two or more bones coming together to allow a certain range of...
As both a student and teacher of yoga, I’ve found myself interested in understanding the...
How exactly might we approach incorporating progressive loading into our yoga...
As a beginner, you might decide to start a home yoga practice for any number of reasons. Perhaps...
My first exposure to yoga was through a Groupon, which I reluctantly purchased at the...