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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Many yoga teachers have had an experience of a student stepping into a class and immediately plopping up into a Shoulderstand (or a Headstand, which is even riskier). It always[…]
William Broad had done it again. He sounded an alarm last year about the potential risks of the yoga practice and caused some heated discussions in the yoga community. This[…]
I remember few years ago I got a new client who arrived to our first session with a list of issues that was about 2 pages long. It included things[…]
Most of the cells in our body and brain are constantly striving toward the state of homeostasis and want us to be happy, healthy and successful. But there are some[…]
I remember in my first teacher training program we had “alignment clinics”, where we were told exactly where to place the feet, knees, shoulders and hips in each pose. Was[…]
Recently I’ve watched a video on YouTube by a popular yoga teacher and couldn’t help but wince every time she instructed her students to “roll up to stand one notch[…]