Busting Common Menopause Myths: Empowering Your Journey Through Midlife and Beyond

Struggle with mood swings, sleep disturbances, low energy, irregular periods, poor sexual health, and/or weight gain? These could be symptoms linked to menopause – even if you’re in your 30s.  Most women don’t know that the journey through menopause often unfolds over decades. If you are 35-37, you are in the perimenopause window, long before … Continued

Mapping the Interconnectedness of the Body – Anatomy Trains in Yoga

Join Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains, for an online course that will give you new insights into the interconnectedness of the body as it relates to your yoga practice. While traditional anatomy is static, Anatomy Trains shows you the body as an interconnected whole. We do not move via individual muscles as traditional anatomy has it, … Continued

Yoga, Fascia and Healthy Aging: Keys to Keeping the Fascia Youthful and Supple

The fascia – the body’s connective tissue – is increasingly acknowledged to be a vital part of the body, which plays a significant role in our daily and long-term health and well-being. Previously thought to be an inert ‘wrapping material,’ we now know that the fascia shapes every part of our body. Just as significantly, … Continued

Yoga for the Female Pelvic Floor: Keys to Lifelong Health with Leslie Howard

Most people know the importance of core strengthening for health and long-term well-being, but the pelvic floor is an important group of core muscles, which tend to get ignored. “The torso is like a tote bag for your organs,” says Leslie Howard, a Bay area yoga teacher who conducts workshops nationally on pelvic floor strengthening to help … Continued

Yoga for Healthy Hips: Principles for a Safe Practice

Yoga poses that target the hip joints are among the quintessential yoga asana practices. They’re vital for increasing our general comfort with all forms of sitting, for supporting low back and knee health, and for releasing pent-up tension in the pelvic area from emotional stress and even from past trauma.  Hip opening yoga poses also … Continued

Journey to Center: A Yoga Guide to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Core

The core muscles are our physical, structural, and energetic center. A strong core is essential to healthy and functional movement throughout life. It forms the foundation for proper posture, ease and grace of movement, and even creates greater emotional balance and strength. For many people, core work is associated with tedious and unpleasant exercises, like … Continued

Gait, Posture, and Longevity: Movement Mastery for Optimal Health

Wonder how long you are likely to live? And, more importantly, how to optimize your chances of living longer? There’s one surprising predictor of health and longevity that most people haven’t heard about. Your gait, or rather, how well and how fast you walk. We all know that walking is one of the best things … Continued

Journey to Center: A Yoga Guide to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Core

The core muscles are our physical, structural, and energetic center. A strong core is essential to healthy and functional movement throughout life. It forms the foundation for proper posture, ease and grace of movement, and even creates greater emotional balance and strength. For many people, core work is associated with tedious and unpleasant exercises, like … Continued

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