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Unlock Your Body: Release Chronic Tightness
by Sarah St. Pierre
Many people ask me how long it will take them to release chronic tightness or get out of pain. I wish I could answer this question, but the truth is that everyone’s patterns of muscular tension and pain are unique. There is no way for me or anyone else to accurately predict a time frame for the... Read more
There Are More Than Five Yamas
by Nina Zolotow, RYT 500
Although many of us have been told that the Yoga Sutras of Patajanli is the single authoritative text on yoga, this isn’t really true. As yoga evolved over thousands of years, there were many different schools of yoga besides the school described by Patajanli (now referred to as “classical yoga”)... Read more
Doug Keller: Why Most People Get Psoas Release Wrong
by Doug Keller and Yoga U Staff Writer
Fascia research pioneer Ida Rolf famously referred to the psoas as “the seat of the soul”. Because the psoas is buried deep beneath the core of the body, it may not always be the most obvious muscle to target in our yoga practice. But as renowned yoga teacher Doug Keller explains in the video... Read more
Decode Sanskrit: A Short Primer
by Charlotte Bell
I wrote about using Sanskrit vs. English names when you teach yoga poses in a previous post. The answer, as in so much of yoga practice is, it depends. If you’d like to explore using Sanskrit at least some of the time, it may not be as difficult as you think. In this post, I’ll offer some tips on... Read more
