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PROFESSIONAL BODY NERD WRITINGS AND VIDEOS
Yoga Alliance Interview – Scope of Practice
I join David Lipsius, CEO of Yoga Alliance, to discuss the conditions and injuries people often bring to yoga and how a teacher might respond.
What To Do With Your Foam Roller
Ok, so just to clarify – you can still foam roll all you want on it. Roll your heart out. Recently, more and more studies are showing that a more pliable and targeted tool will be more effective…
Help For Your Stiff Neck
For lots of people with neck pain, their cervical range of motion – the movements they are able to do with their neck – become limited as a protective mechanism. If you’ve had neck pain for a while…
Super-easy, No Props, Not Embarrassing All-in-One Spine Mobilizer
Do you ever feel self-conscious busting out your movement regime at the office, or at the airport?
What is Bandwidth?
As movement teachers, we are often torn between two competing schools of thought around how we teach. Generally speaking, the two options are: do I control with intense precision every movement that my students make, so that they never do a movement that is ‘wrong,’ or do I allow a more freeform approach, so that they can let their bodies move in all sorts of positions and ways before they settle into where I want them to be?
Isometric Contractions For Pain Relief
Something that´s been on my radar lately is the study of isometric muscle contraction and its relationship to pain relief. If that sentence made you say, ¨Huh?¨ – let´s back up and review.
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