7 Body Blind Spots
Body blind spots are the major contributor to movement dysfunction and pain. Do you have any of these?
At home exercises for neck pain
Five movements to remedy neck pain and stiffness. We don’t know much about our joints. Until they hurt. Then we just want the pain to go away. With some daily maintenance you can care for your joints to take care of you for the rest of your life! Here’s a video to work with your neck. Enjoy!
How to Get rid of Knee Pain
When your knees hurt don’t panic. It’s figureoutable! You see, knees that don't know where they are or what their job is are unstable. When a joint is unstable it does two things: moves too much, or doesn't move at all. Both of these strategies backfire eventually.
Your core is like your Instapot
We need to sense where we don’t have adequate pressure in our abdominal wall and practice the skill of creating tension in the abdominal wall with our breath.
Cold Water Bathing?
Cold water immersion is hitting social media. It seems like everybody is doing it. What’s the real reason we go to extremes?
Don’t Burn Your Bra
My culture informed me that even though I was a liberated woman, I was still seeking the male gaze, so larger breasts were preferable. I hated how men looked me in the chest rather than in the eye.
Do you have tech neck?
it’s a habit. It’s a program in your brain about how you organize yourself in relation to gravity. And all your muscles, joints and connective tissue have gone to the office manager and asked for a new job.
Many of the muscles on the back of the body which are designed to extend the spine and draw the shoulder blades into their optimal position on the back of the rib cage have become overworked and are just hanging on. Conversely, the muscles on the front of the chest that are designed to provide pushing power have now been assigned to help the overworked guys on the back to keep the whole structure from toppling forward.
Wanna live to 120?
There is compelling science that shows that strength training and intermittent fasting are two key ways to slow the hands of time.
Why Breathing Matters
You take 17,000 breaths per day. It’s the first thing you do when you are born the last thing you do when you die.
What does “somatics” mean?
“If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If your spine is completely flexible at 60, you are young.” - Joseph Pilates
Ten Ways to Fix Your Feet
I don’t have good feet. I’ve taken them for granted, stuffed them in shoes that have squeezed my toes , and thought I needed to just have a “good pair of shoes”.
Balance is a skill…do you know how?
Yesterday I climbed over silver coloured rolling beach rocks, balanced on split log paths and crept over large shards of shale laying barrier between the moist, spruce- perfumed air of Gaff Point and the glistening, golden late afternoon waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. There wasn’t a moment on the hike when my balance wasn’t being challenged by the footing.
Magic Happens When You Train Your Fascia
Over thirty five years ago I announced to my Grandmother Murray that I was studying yoga. “You’re studying yogurt?,” she queried with a twisted face.
Undizzy Yourself
It’s that time of year where wheelbarrows squeak out of sheds, hiking boots come out of hiding in the back of the closet and the warm weather beckons us to wander further afield.
Your hips are not a can that needs to be opened!
You don’t have to go far to find a yoga class or workshop that is either telling you the need to open your hips or citing a laundry list of benefits if you can do so.
The fact is, the hips are a very stable joint. They are not meant to open. They are meant to transfer the force of your legs through the pelvis and into your spine. The real question the prophets of hip opening need to be asking is what effect is the position of your hip joint having on how your spine is moving or not.
Core Stability Or Core Strength? Do You Know The Difference?
Have you ever been told you need to “strengthen your core”?
Did you go to a gym or a pilates class and still at the end of it not really understand how to do it?
The truth is I’ve been in the same situation. Even after years of pilates training, I didn’t have a true sense of what my core was or should be doing.
Stress, anxiety or trauma? What's the difference?
If you are alive, still breathing and have got half a clue about what's been going on in the past year you are most likely suffering some of the symptoms of trauma. Trauma is not something you can talk away, drink away, relax away or distract yourself to avoid.
Ditch the Kegels..an alternative approach to the pelvic floor
One in four women has some type of pelvic floor disorder. While those statistics only represent the presence of prolapsed organs or incontinence, there are many other issues that can be affected by a dysfunctional pelvic floor.