Neglecting your hip abductors can mess up your walk, sleep and balance
Few months ago this video of Jean Claude van Damme doing a split between two moving trucks made quite a stir and produced a number of copycats trying to do[…]
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Yoga practice for the hip flexors
This practice will help you release tension in the psoas and iliacus muscles, as well as their supporting musculature. You will need a sturdy chair to get the best out[…]
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Stretching the hip flexors is not always a good idea
Technically, we have five main hip flexor muscles, but one of them seems to be in the spotlight much more then others – the “mighty psoas”. Psoas seems to be[…]
Assessment yoga practice for the hips
This yoga practice for the hips will help you assess the asymmetries in your hips and give you a better idea of where the imbalances are. Do not do this[…]
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Why do we get hip pain and what can we do about it?
When you look at the structure of the hip joint, it becomes clear that it was designed to withstand some serious forces. The head of the femur (thigh bone) is[…]
10-minute home yoga practice in the morning can shape the rest of your day
My teacher often compares regular home yoga practice with flossing. He jokes that you should only floss around the teeth that you want to keep. When I first heard this[…]
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“Magic Three” home yoga practice
This is a short home yoga practice that you can do any time. It consists of three yoga poses that are simple enough to do without any other preparation, versatile[…]
Want pain-free shoulders? Cut down on your Downward dogs and Planks
A fellow yoga teacher confided in me once: “I had quite a scare in my class yesterday – one of my students had dislocated a shoulder. Luckily, there was a[…]
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How to create a target yoga practice for a specific body area
Whether we like it or not, most students come to a yoga class to relieve physical tension and get more limber. “My neck is tight today” or “I really need[…]
6 reasons your yoga practice can become a pain in the neck
Many of us carry tension in our necks and when we go to a yoga class we hope to come out with our necks feeling better. But that is not[…]
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Yoga practice for the neck and shoulders
This yoga practice will help you stretch the sides of your neck and loosen up your shoulders. Please do not not attempt this practice if you cannot sweep your arms[…]
How to stretch your neck and relieve neck tension more effectively
If you google “neck stretches” or “neck stretching” you will get a number of variations of the following two options: Clearly, Option 2 is not the kind of stretching we[…]
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Short yoga practice for the neck and upper back
Stretch and strengthen your neck and upper back with this short yoga practice. It uses complex movements of the neck, thoracic spine and arms for maximum effectiveness. This yoga practice[…]
Doing neck circles can compress your cervical nerves and cause other issues
Honestly, I thought that we disposed of the neck circles long, long time ago. In every anatomy training I ever attended – college courses, personal trainer certification, yoga trainings –[…]
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Yogic breathing: chest to belly or belly to chest; what is the proper breathing technique?
There is an ongoing discussion in the yoga community about the directionality of the breath – do you begin your inhalation in the chest and then fill the belly or[…]
Too many asymmetrical poses can create sacroiliac joint issues
I must admit: before I started my viniyoga teacher training, I’ve never heard of sacrum issues. Sure, I knew what sacrum was, but my first teacher training program never talked[…]
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Yoga practice to stop mental chatter
Silence your inner critic with this simple yoga practice. It is designed to stop the mental chatter, focus the mind and connect to something larger then ourselves. Hrdayam mayi –[…]
Centering yoga practice for crazy times
The theme for this yoga practice is Sutra 2.46 Sthira sukham asanam (Yoga postures should posses the qualities of stability and ease). It touches on each level of the Panchamaya[…]
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Short yoga sequence for hip flexors
The purpose of this short home yoga practice is to relieve chronic contraction in psoas/ iliacus muscles. It does it by contracting and gently stretching the target muscle groups.
Lateral bending yoga practice
The purpose of this practice is to alternately stretch and contract the lateral structures of the torso (obliques, QL, illiacus, TFL, IT band); to facilitate deeper breathing by stretching intercostal[…]
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