Concerned that you are losing flexibility and range of motion over the years? For many people, as we get on the other side of 50, joints begin to get stiffer, and you just don’t move as freely as you used to. Sounds familiar? Well, it doesn’t have to be that way. In this exciting interview, … Continued
Transform your yoga practice and take your flexibility to the next level with our groundbreaking course on advanced stretching techniques for the upper body. Led by experts Dr. Joe Vella and Lynn Crimando, this course will revolutionize how you approach stretching and mobility in your yoga practice. Say goodbye to static stretching and hello to … Continued
When thinking about stretching in yoga, many people think of static stretches that test our ability to go “deeper.” While static stretches certainly have their use when it comes to increasing or retaining flexibility, there is a lot more we can do than static stretches to maximize the benefits of our yoga practice. In this groundbreaking … Continued
The foot is the only contact point between the body and the ground. The 26 bones of the foot form a complex structure, which plays a critical role in the way in which our body stabilizes during dynamic movement. We usually pay the most attention to the bones, muscles, and ligaments of the foot. However, … Continued
The pelvic floor muscles are increasingly becoming recognized as an important focus for our regular exercise and fitness activities. Proper work of strengthening, stabilizing, stretching, and softening the pelvic floor helps to create the correct foundation for each movement in the body. Yet what is most prescribed as a catch-all cure is “just do your … Continued
Studies have shown that yoga offers a wide range of benefits in a surprisingly wide range of areas. These include not just the enhancement of physical fitness but improvement in several areas relating to nervous system functioning, such as awareness and mindfulness, self-regulation of internal physiological and psychological states, as well as the development of … Continued
Can we maintain the effortless sense of ease and focus that is the hallmark of a good yoga practice, even when we introduce more demanding, strength-building work into our yoga practice? It is well known that strength-building is one of the most effective ways to slow age-related degeneration of the body. Our muscle mass decreases … Continued
What’s one of the best predictors of how well you are aging, which you’ve likely never heard about? Curiously, it’s grip strength. What is grip strength anyway? It is a measure of your hand and arm strength. While the strength of our grip may seem irrelevant, in study after study, grip strength has proven to … Continued
We all know that muscles are the engines that drive all movement in the body. But did you know that muscles serve many other critical body functions? And that these all get affected and decline as we begin to lose muscle mass with age. Muscles are the most metabolically active tissue in the body. Muscle … Continued
Struggling with finding correct alignment in your yoga practice? Most people do. The sad reality is that most yoga students struggle with finding ease and comfort in yoga poses. Many poses are difficult, and our tendency is to muscle our way into poses in an effort to “do yoga” the way we think we should. … Continued
Do You Struggle with These Common Pelvic Floor Problems? Feeling a constant need to go to the bathroom, even though you’ve just been there – and don’t really need to go? You may be dealing with an overactive bladder – a form of incontinence that is surprisingly common. Pelvic floor problems like incontinence and pelvic … Continued
Motherhood is a rite of passage and yoga is an ideal method for carrying women through that rite of passage into the fourth trimester of postpartum. Yoga can help women embrace motherhood and their new identity, as well recover after giving birth. A woman’s body undergoes miraculous and enormous changes, a complete transformation, during pregnancy … Continued