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Biomechanics

Do I Have to do the Same Exercise on Both Sides?

January 29, 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but when I did my first yoga teacher training, I was told that you always do the same sequence of poses on both sides. I didn’t know much about anything at that time, so I didn’t really question it, but it left me wondering… 

Always? 
If you didn’t, would you become lopsided?
What if you were already lopsided?

If you’ve heard this before, and you’d like a reasoned answer as to why “always” isn’t always the case, watch my short video to learn:
 

  • why the “same thing both sides” idea may be so prevalent in yoga
  • how asymmetry is natural…
  • …but too much might be problematic down the line
  • how to fold asymmetrical practice into group classes, workshops and privates

 
What were you taught about doing the same exercises on both sides? And has your thinking changed since then?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

Filed Under: Anatomy, Biomechanics, Blog, Kinesiology, Physical Therapy

Yoga Alliance Interview – Scope of Practice

March 2, 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

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Yoga Alliance Interview on Scope of Practice

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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. We take a deep dive into how clarity around a yoga teacher’s scope of practice can help teachers, students, and the medical establishment have a healthier relationship with yoga.

Should an organization like Yoga Alliance dictate to the larger yoga community around scope of practice for yoga teachers? What are the consequences both with and without this established boundary?

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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.

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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, even when it has resolved, you may still hang on to those learned movement limitations, instead of returning to full range of motion.

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Those limitations often then lead to compensatory movements in order to accomplish a task. For example, if you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation. This compensation can lead to a lot of shearing forces into the cervical vertebrae, and thus in itself create new pain and problems for the bones and muscles of your neck.

In this video, I demonstrate a simple but extremely effective exercise to isolate rotation of the neck and how to perform it without any compensatory movements. The key is to pin one spot on the top of your head to the wall and not to deviate from that spot, even if it means the amount of rotation that you are doing feels more limited than usual. This precision will teach your neck how to do pure rotation again, and if you practice this exercise it should both a) make your neck feel better and b) actually start to help you regain proper neck rotation movement in your life.

Try it out, and let me know how you like it in the comments!

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If you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation.

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Filed Under: Anatomy, Biomechanics, Blog, Physical Therapy, Yoga

Help For Your Stiff Neck

December 2, 2017 by Artillery Leave a Comment

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How to clean up your neck movements!

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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, even when it has resolved, you may still hang on to those learned movement limitations, instead of returning to full range of motion.

Those limitations often then lead to compensatory movements in order to accomplish a task. For example, if you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation. This compensation can lead to a lot of shearing forces into the cervical vertebrae, and thus in itself create new pain and problems for the bones and muscles of your neck.

In this video, I demonstrate a simple but extremely effective exercise to isolate rotation of the neck and how to perform it without any compensatory movements. The key is to pin one spot on the top of your head to the wall and not to deviate from that spot, even if it means the amount of rotation that you are doing feels more limited than usual. This precision will teach your neck how to do pure rotation again, and if you practice this exercise it should both a) make your neck feel better and b) actually start to help you regain proper neck rotation movement in your life.

Try it out, and let me know how you like it in the comments!

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If you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation.

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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, even when it has resolved, you may still hang on to those learned movement limitations, instead of returning to full range of motion.

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Those limitations often then lead to compensatory movements in order to accomplish a task. For example, if you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation. This compensation can lead to a lot of shearing forces into the cervical vertebrae, and thus in itself create new pain and problems for the bones and muscles of your neck.

In this video, I demonstrate a simple but extremely effective exercise to isolate rotation of the neck and how to perform it without any compensatory movements. The key is to pin one spot on the top of your head to the wall and not to deviate from that spot, even if it means the amount of rotation that you are doing feels more limited than usual. This precision will teach your neck how to do pure rotation again, and if you practice this exercise it should both a) make your neck feel better and b) actually start to help you regain proper neck rotation movement in your life.

Try it out, and let me know how you like it in the comments!

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If you have limited neck rotation, but you need to look over your shoulder to reach into the back seat of your car, you might end up pulling your neck into a sidebend or extension to get around what you are lacking in rotation.

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Filed Under: Anatomy, Biomechanics, Blog, Kinesiology, Movement hacks and tricks, Physical Therapy

Super-easy, No Props, Not Embarrassing All-in-One Spine Mobilizer

December 2, 2017 by Artillery Leave a Comment

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Super-easy, no props, not embarrassing all-in-one spine mobilizer

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Aka: how to stretch in public without looking like a weirdo

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Do you ever feel self-conscious busting out your movement regime at the office, or at the airport?

I love being able to take classes or be in movement spaces where there is lots of room to take up space, but sometimes we don’t have that option, and we need a simple way to get in some movement that a) doesn’t need a lot of space or special props and b) you can do publicly without feeling self-conscious about it.

In this video I demonstrate how to do this super-easy, no props, all-in-one spine mobilizer.

There are a few different things I love about this move:

  • It’s completely closed chain (hands and feet fixed to an object) so you can use both your legs and your arms to create that leverage for pushing.
  • It starts you in a position that mimics gait – in other words, you’re like a freeze frame of walking with the reciprocal (opposite) arm to leg pattern.
  • When you walk, your spine needs to be able to move in all three planes, and so you can use this movement to work on all of them, or you can pick the one that feels the most restricted and work on that one.
  • You’re working on spinal movement while already in rotation, which means you’re working in more than one plane of movement at the same time. This is much more typical to how bodies move in real life.

Try it out, and let me know in the comments how you get on!

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Isometric Contractions For Pain Relief

November 29, 2017 by Artillery Leave a Comment

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Should I use them with my clients?

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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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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.

Generally speaking. We can categorize muscle contractions into 3 categories.

1. Concentric – when the muscle is getting shorter (like my biceps when I pick up my coffee to take a sip)
2. Isometric – when the muscle is contracting without changing lengt (like my biceps as i´m holding my coffee still to take a sip)
3. Eccentric – when the muscle is getting longer (like my biceps as I then put my coffee back down without dropping it)

In the rehab world, eccentric gets a lot of attention because it´s been proven to help a lot with tendon repair. And at the same time, we know that an eccentric contraction actually loads the muscle more than a concentric contraction – by about 40% more- so it´s a quicker way to make a muscle stronger.

But in the past few years, more research is been done on how to use isometric contractions, especially for people who are in pain, as a way to induce pain-free muscle contraction, and start to re-wire the brain´s pain map about movement.

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What research is starting to show is that for some people, in some instances, an isometric contraction is the way to help them start to create movement without pain.

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The big thing to take away is this: when people have pain when they move, they develop a fear of the movement causing pain in the future (it´s even got a name: kinesiophobia). From modern pain science, we know that in order to get someone healthy and moving again, we have to find ways for them to move that don’t have pain attached. What research is starting to show is that for some people, in some instances, an isometric contraction is the way to help them start create movement without pain.

Watch the video for demonstration of how you could do this for your client, and how you could then progress it or regress it as needed.

Ultimately, this will be an ‘it depends’- some people will tolerate it, and some won´t – but it´s a great tool to add to your toolbox, especially if you are working with someone who is in pain and is now afraid to move.

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This week’s episode of the Movement Logic Podcas This week’s episode of the Movement Logic Podcast is all about breathing. 
 
[Post and podcast CW: assault, trauma]
 
I can’t tell you how many people I see in the clinic who are getting by on chest breathing – in particular, people who have had repeated traumatic experiences. This trauma may be directly related to their pain (the patient whose injury was caused by a negative experience with a practitioner, like a yoga class injury or a chiropractic adjustment), or it may not directly relate, but is a result of a life experience (the patient grieving the death of a loved one). 
 
Is it always helpful to be instructed how to breathe? What if it's an override to someone's natural function? And what if your breathing intervention doesn’t achieve what you thought it would?
 
If we're teaching breathing in class, we have to consider the possibility that for at least some of the people in the room, they're breathing the way they are for a reason, and if we’re going to intervene and change it, we had better know exactly what we’re trying to do to their nervous system (wake it up or calm it down). We may want to consider the way we present breathing practices as well – less of an order, more of an option may feel safer to a lot of people.
 
Check out the full episode at the link in bio.
 
[Upcoming episode teaser: I was inspired by my utter lack of knowledge around nitrous oxide and the benefits of nose breathing to research and record an entire follow up episode on the topic. Keep an eye out for this ep in a few months!]
I have never been able to get ‘all the way down’ in this position. Close, but no cigar, and instead just a collapse to the ground.
 
I know that the ROM limitation for me is in my ankles – so what happens if I make that ankle position a little less intense by placing a blanket under my heel? Not only can I now ‘get all the way down’, but more importantly, I can work on my END RANGE STRENGTH by lifting and lowering myself in and out of that last 10% that I couldn’t control before. Spoiler if you try it: It’s FREAKING HARD if you’ve only flopped before!
 
If working on mobility, stability, strength, and balance is something you’re interested in, I’m starting a new WEEKLY Physio Yoga class at the end of September (based on how successful the Physio Yoga series was at Yoga House!) Class will be Thursdays at 11am PST, with a 15-day replay. These classes develop movement essentials for your body’s overall well-being, with a different focus each week (Strength, Mobility, Balance, Function) to maximize fundamental movement skills and tease out your personal needs and weak areas. 
 
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🏍 60mph really blows my hair back 🏍 [as a h 🏍 60mph really blows my hair back 🏍

[as a healthcare provider I must clarify I wear full protective gear at all times; this look is better known as helmet head.]

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Listen to the latest episode on the Movement Logic Listen to the latest episode on the Movement Logic Podcast about the best (not body-building!) exercises for strength, delivered to you by @laurelbeversdorf, a non-bruh yoga teacher.

Short on time? Here are the 5 tips Ifor *how to think about* strength exercises when making your choices:

#1 — train movements not muscles, namely the squat/lunge, hinge, upper body push & upper body pull.

#2 — decide how many exercises you can do in a session. Be realistic about how much time it takes for the sets (and rest in between). Typically for me, realistically, 1 set takes about about 3-4 minutes on average.

#3 — based on your answer for #2, prioritize selecting multi-joint exercises over single joint exercises because they train more muscle mass and are a better use of your time (especially if time is limited.)

#4 — train full body and hit all the “macronutrients for strength” (those movement categories I named in tip #1) rather than doing a split routine like leg day, back and chest day, biceps and triceps day. Split routines are a body-building thing, ya know? The benefit of full body is every session you train strength in the major movements and because of that, every week, you’ll hit those movements more frequently (every workout) which is key for building strength if you don’t have 4-5 days a week to workout.

#5 — order your exercises strategically so that it’s logical in terms of the exercise demands, but also so you’re putting your individual strength priorities first (sorta like triage.)

Listen to the whole episode via the link in my bio. 👀

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In Episode 8 of the Movement Logic podcast @laurel In Episode 8 of the Movement Logic podcast @laurelbeversdorf is joined by Movement Logic co-creator @trinaaltman. Together, they discuss Trina’s experience with perimenopause.

Trina shares her personal story along with tons of resources for women going through this change of life. Here’s what they discuss:
 
—What is perimenopause?

—Doctors have a tendency to minimize women’s suffering

—Brain fog and hot flashes

—Challenges women face when navigating the medical system

—Finding a doctor that spends more time with you AND is evidence-based AND is current on the research

—The Women’s Health Initiative and fear they created (through highly questionable handling and interpretation of the data) around estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

—Weight gain and perimenopause

—Scope appropriate advice for movement teachers working with perimenopausal and menopausal students
 
TRINA’S BIO:

Trina received her training through STOTT Pilates® and is an E-RYT 500. She created Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed® to show teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science.

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Almost didn’t post because “too many wrinkles. Almost didn’t post because “too many wrinkles.” I’ll stop if you will. 

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Episode 7 of the @movementlogictutorials podcast i Episode 7 of the @movementlogictutorials podcast is up! In this solo episode, I tackle the tricky subject of pain, and whether it’s always bad if our clients and students have pain. I discuss the situations in which pain might be acceptable, and give concrete tools and approaches for you to use with your clients who are having pain. 
 
➡️What’s the difference between acute and chronic pain?

➡️When might it be ok - and when would it not be ok - for your students to have pain?

➡️How to avoid generating fear for your students around their pain experience

➡️How much pain would be acceptable for someone to have?

➡️How to tease out different sensations to help your client have greater discernment around what they’re feeling in their body

🔗Click the link in bio to watch the episode on our website, or listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts!

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Have you ever tripped and landed in Tree pose? Me Have you ever tripped and landed in Tree pose? Me neither. Real-life balance skills require quick reaction times and the ability to catch yourself in any position (which comes from strength and mobility!).
 
 
Part 3 of my month-long Physio Yoga series at Yoga House is all about balance. Balance practice is falling practice – learning how to catch yourself before the fall happens! We’ll explore different strategies and techniques that fortify your inherent balance skills, looking at ankle and hip mobility and strength in unusual positions and challenging movements.
 
 
Interested? Join in studio, livestream, or purchase and view later (link is good for 15 days) this Sunday July 24th from 1:00pm-2.30pm PST.
 
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I nominate @laurelbeversdorf @trinaaltman @mardisy I nominate @laurelbeversdorf @trinaaltman @mardisykes @tobiasconantrost @connectivemovement @mrstevenrowley for the #kaftanchallenge 👗👘💃
(And anyone else who wants to do it!)

1. Remix this reel and #showmeyourmumu #showmeyourhousedress #showmeyourkaftan

2. Nominate at least 3 other people for the challlenge

Let’s all follow @yogawalla’s example and get comfy for the summer!
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Here’s what @sarahcourtdpt has to say about #yogaeverydamnday:

We have to figure out how to deal less in absolutes and more in nuance.

We have to be able to grow and learn and change our minds. 

For a long time I believed the only physical activity I needed was yoga asana, partly because that’s what I had been told by my teachers. When a PT told me to stop doing it, I was extremely frustrated (and eventually went back to class, because they hadn’t given me anything else to do, nor had they impacted my pain in a meaningful way). 

Now, older and hopefully wiser, asana practice is a slice of my movement pie, not the whole pie. It’s on us as movement teachers to accurately educate our students and when we learn more, teach them more. 

Let us know your thoughts in the comments and don’t forget to listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts (and subscribe if you want to keep learning).

 #yogaclassesonline #onlineyogaclasses #neckpainrelief #backpainexercises #mobilityclasses #bodynerd #yogatherapy #movementtherapy #liveonlineyoga #practiceyoga
I was scrolling through a video looking for a clip I was scrolling through a video looking for a clip to use and caught this sped up Bear Crawl that made me LOL! Looks more 🦀 than 🐻 to me. Whether you do it fast or slow, this move has unique stability demands that help to integrate the shoulder and pelvic girdles with the trunk.
 
If working on mobility, stability, strength and balance is something you’re interested in, I have a brand-new series of Physio Yoga classes that’s underway at Yoga House on Sundays, 1:00pm-2:30pm PST (join in person, live stream, or watch later!). This month-long program develops movement essentials for your body’s overall well-being, with a different focus each week to maximize fundamental movement skills and tease out your personal needs and weak areas. Take the full month of classes for a well-rounded experience, or pick and choose where you feel you need it the most.
 
Up next on July 17: Mobility
What’s the difference between mobility and flexibility? There are lots of answers, but mine is this: mobility is useful flexibility, that requires both range of motion and strength to bring yourself into a position (versus wedging yourself). Learn what the difference feels like in practice, and acquire some useful mobility techniques to support your yoga practice and your daily life movements.
 
Link in bio for more details and to sign up!

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Look, while we are professionals, we don’t know Look, while we are professionals, we don’t know everything (gasp!) and neither one of us knew the government guidelines for exercise. (To be fair, I looked it up before we recorded this episode of the @movementlogictutorials podcast.)

While guidelines like this can be and are useful, in the end, the best exercise to get into is the kind that you’re going to enjoy doing - and if you can find a few things that complement each other (dance class and strength training, Pilates and hiking, ice hockey and yoga, to name a few), that’s even better.

In this episode, @sarahcourtdpt and @laurelbeversdorf discuss the question that seems hard to answer: what is the right amount for people to exercise? We also look at ways to motivate people to want to exercise, and why a lot of yoga asana practitioners end up overdoing the asana and undergoing everything else.

Click the link in bio to watch the episode on our website, or listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts! 

 #yogaclassesonline #mobilityclasses #bodynerd #yogatherapy #movementtherapy #liveonlineyoga #practiceyoga #pilatesteacher #anatomynerd #yogapodcast
This is one of my favorite ways to take a typical This is one of my favorite ways to take a typical yoga class movement (down dog to plank and back) and get a little more picky about it (and create some FIRE in your core!).
 
Instead of just bouncing forward into plank, try a spinal undulation instead:
 
➡️Pull up through your low core to lift your low back towards the ceiling

➡️Use that lift to start to shift your weight forward onto your hands

➡️Continue to draw your spine upwards through the lower thoracic, upper thoracic, and finally your head

➡️Say to yourself “whew!” and then reverse it!
 
Is it PT? Is it yoga? Why not both!
 
And if both is something you’re interested in, I have a brand-new series of Physio Yoga classes starting this Sunday July 10th for 4 weeks at @yoga_house, 1:00pm-2:30pm (join in person, live stream, or watch later!). This month-long program develops movement essentials for your body’s overall well-being, with a different focus each week to maximize fundamental movement skills and tease out your personal needs and weak areas. Take the full month of classes for a well-rounded experience, or pick and choose where you feel you need it the most.
 
Up first on July 10: Strength
Use it or lose it can refer to a lot of things, but your physical strength is top of the list. Stave off your body’s declining strength (I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that strength decreases begin in your 20s-30s) using just your bodyweight to learn fundamental strength moves that carry over into your yoga practice and your life.
 
⬆️ Link in bio for more details and to sign up!

 #yogaclassesonline #onlineyogaclasses #neckpainrelief #backpainexercises #mobilityclasses #bodynerd #yogatherapy #movementtherapy #liveonlineyoga #practiceyoga #physioyoga #physioyogatherapy #bodyweightexercises  #plyometricstraining
Does yoga asana build bone density?   I’m off t Does yoga asana build bone density?
 
I’m off the hook this week, but you definitely don’t want to miss this one! In @laurelbeversdorf’s first solo episode for The Movement Logic Podcast, she investigates the question of whether or not yoga asana builds bone density, where the claim that it does might have come from, some obstacles to building bone density, some concrete, evidenced-based ways to improve it, as well as how yoga asana fits into these efforts.

Here are specific points discussed:
 
🧐Where did the idea that yoga builds bone density come from?

🤔Why is bone density important and why should we want to build it?

🤔How does osteoporosis happen?

🤔How do bones remodel and become denser, stronger, or more resilient?

🤔What activities build bone? 

🤔What role does yoga play in the conversation around bone density?

Link in bio to listen and watch the video of this conversation at: 

www.movementlogictutorials.com/podcast 👀 

👂OR download the Movement Logic Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Want a hot booty? As in, appropriately warmed up f Want a hot booty? As in, appropriately warmed up for exercise? Look no further…
 
This exercise has EVERYTHING:
 
☑️A bent knee going into internal and external rotation (it’s legal look it up)
☑️A reverse action pelvis rotating over 2 (count ‘em) femurs
☑️A foot driver for pelvis rotation
 
AND: it’s fun.
 
Is it PT? Is it yoga? Why not both!
 
And if both is something you’re interested in, I have a brand-new series of Physio Yoga classes starting this Sunday July 10th for 4 weeks at @yoga_house , 1:00pm-2:30pm PST (join in person, live stream, or watch later!). This month-long program develops movement essentials for your body’s overall well-being, with a different focus each week to maximize fundamental movement skills and tease out your personal needs and weak areas. Take the full month of classes for a well-rounded experience, or pick and choose where you feel you need it the most.
 
Up first on July 10: Strength
💪💪💪Use it or lose it can refer to a lot of things, but your physical strength is top of the list. Stave off your body’s declining strength (I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that strength decreases begin in your 20s-30s) using just your bodyweight to learn fundamental strength moves that carry over into your yoga practice and your life.
 
Link in bio for more details and to sign up!
👣👣Episode 4 of the @movementlogictutorials p 👣👣Episode 4 of the @movementlogictutorials podcast is up, and this week, I’m joined by my former professor from PT school, Dr. Ben Cornell @bpsgson (as I try not to embarrass myself). We discuss all things feet related from balance to running, and why you might want to start high-fiving the trees when you’re out for a run or a walk!
 
☑️Why shoes and bedcovers might cause problems for not only feet but the rest of the body

☑️Why plantar fasciitis can be so challenging to work with and heal from

☑️How much can we change the bony structure of the foot – and does it matter if we can’t?

☑️Why a “window of neutral” is a better goal than a singular “neutral” position

☑️Connecting increased foot rigidity to fall risk for older people

☑️Why pronation isn’t a dirty word in running and there’s no single way for people to run

☑️The importance of giving your students self-efficacy and understanding their motivation

Click the link in bio to watch the episode on our website, or listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts!
 
Guest Bio:
 
Dr. Ben Cornell is an Associate Professor at Mount St. Mary’s University and serves as the Musculoskeletal Clinical Coordinator in the program. He oversees the student-run, pro bono physical therapy clinic at the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles which provides physical therapy care to the homeless population. He has 17 years in clinical practice and is a board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist as well as an avid runner.
I may be on vacation right now, but guess what? Ep I may be on vacation right now, but guess what? Episode 3 of the Movement Logic podcast is ready for you! Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

In this episode, @laurelbeversdorf and I discuss massage and self-massage including:

🤔some common (accurate or otherwise) claims about their benefits, and what the research has to say (it’s not what you might think). 

🤔 What is massage, and how is it different than manual therapy in PT?

🤔 Can massage increase proprioception?

🤔 Does everyone benefit from massage, or do some people not need it?

🤔 If there really is a problem with our fascia, is massage the answer?

🤔What therapeutic benefits does massage have?

🤔 What role does massage play in helping trauma-affected populations?

Search Movement Logic: Strong Opinions Loosely Held wherever you get your podcasts OR watch the video on our website www.movementlogictutorials.com/podcast. Insta access by clicking the link in bio 👀

 #selfmassage #selfmassagetechniques #fascialrelease #massagetherapy #posturematters #painandposture
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The @movementlogictutorials Podcast episode 2 is u The @movementlogictutorials Podcast episode 2 is up, and @laurelbeversdorf and @sarahcourtdpt are talking all about Scope of Practice.

What is it, how do we stay within scope, and how does it impact our work as movement teachers and the choices we make when taking on clients.

Here’s what we talk about:
 
·  How do we define Scope of Practice, and how does it define our work

·  What does a top down “macroScope” vs a personal “microScope” look like

·  How do we decide who to work with and who to refer out

·  Are there any pitfalls to having a scope of practice

·  Do yoga teachers have to comply with the Yoga Alliance Scope of Practice?

Click the link in bio to watch the episode on our website, or listen and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts!
Look familiar? It’s a human spine with iliac cre Look familiar? It’s a human spine with iliac crests as the base and neck of a vessel used for offerings to the gods. The Anthropology museum in CDMX is incredible!

ORIGIN: PLATAFORMA EST, MONTE ALBÁN.

CHRONOLOGY: LATE PROTOCLASSIC, MONTE ALBÁN I1, 200 B.C.-200 A.D.
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