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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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What a great review for my Pain Science Online Course from Shari Larson:
"To be honest, online content is often hard for me to stay engaged in: I'll play solitaire while I listen. This course kept me engaged with pen to paper through the whole thing. So valuable for anyone who teaches movement."
Want to check it out? Here you go:
Quantum Leap Pain Science Online Course | Sarah Court DPT
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Quantum Leap: Pain Science is a 5-hour online webinar designed to give you the confidence and skills to work with students and clients who have pain...So exciting! I did an interview with Jared Cohen and Alexandra Ellis for their Behind the Podium: Unveiling the Coach Podcast back in January and it is UP!! The first 10 minutes is me talking about my love for Alex 😍, and then we get into some good stuff:
• Why understanding basic movement is better than memorizing a bunch of exercises
• Why letting your student make mistakes can help them learn
• Why a better understanding pain science can help you affect more people
• Why pain-free movement is the most important goal when teaching others to move
• Why there’s no perfect way to do anything
Give it a listen and let me know what you think!
Ep 59: Dr. Sarah Court: Strong Ideas Loosely Held | Behind the Podium Podcast
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Ep 59: Dr. Sarah Court: Strong Ideas Loosely Held Aug 2, 2018 | Show Notes | 0 comments On today’s show, we chat with Dr. Sarah Court, who has been both a mentor and personal friend to us both. Dr. Sarah is a coach, Yogi, Yoga teacher, Yoga Tune Up Teacher Trainer, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Prin...