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How To Improve Ankle Mobility in Less Than 20 Minutes. body insights

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

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What Is The Purpose of Yoga In Our Modern Lives? philosophy

At least once a week, I hear a student leave my class saying to a friend: “That was great,...

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Yoga Exercises to Strengthen the Feet & Ankles body insights

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

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Yoga Modifications for Knee Injuries to Make Your Poses Feel Better. body insights

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

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A Simple Strategy For How To Do Push-Ups. body insights

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

There’s great value in...

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Do We Control Our Thoughts? A Look Into This Question Using Logic & Experience. philosophy

Let’s start with an experiment. 

Let’s imagine that after a long day at work, we...

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Common Yoga Injuries & Their Solutions. body insights

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

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How Does Stretching Work? A Guide to Flexibility. body insights

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

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Tight Hip Symptoms & What To Do About Them. body insights

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

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How To Do Yoga At Home for More Consistency & Better Results body insights

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

 

Sure, I liked...

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How To Strengthen Your Wrists For Yoga: Learn To Bear Weight More Effectively. body insights

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

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The Many Benefits of Slow Flow Yoga. body insights

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

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What Is Yoga for Core Strength & Flexibility? body insights

The core goes by a lot of names. Trunk. Torso. Abdomen. Thorax. Way more than our six-pack...

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Yoga Tips For Back Pain to Move Well & Feel Better. body insights

I am passionate about helping people move well to feel better. I think part of this passion...

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Proximal Stability For Distal Mobility: The Concept We Need In Yoga. body insights

The first time I heard the phrase proximal stability for distal mobility my head spun a little...

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How Pain Works: The Biopsychosocial Model of Pain. body insights mental health

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

They...

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The Ultimate Yoga Prop Guide For Your Home Yoga Practice body insights

Yoga props are objects designed to assist the flow of learning in our yoga practice either by...

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What Are The Different Types of Muscle Contraction? (& Why We Should Care.) body insights

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

We contract our muscles...

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Why Is Range Of Motion Important To Develop In Our Joints? body insights

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

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A Guide to the Best Yoga Anatomy Books body insights

As both a student and teacher of yoga, I’ve found myself interested in understanding the...

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How To Use Progressive Overload to Build Strength in Your Yoga Practice. body insights

How exactly might we approach incorporating progressive loading into our yoga...

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How To Start Yoga At Home: A Beginnerā€™s Guide. body insights

As a beginner, you might decide to start a home yoga practice for any number of reasons. Perhaps...

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What Is Yoga All About? philosophy

My first exposure to yoga was through a Groupon, which I reluctantly purchased at the...

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