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SARAH COURT, PT, DPT, E-RYT

Physical Therapist, movement mentor, yoga teacher trainer.

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💪Let’s start with the obvious – this is a p

💪Let’s start with the obvious – this is a progression to use over the course of a few months, not 30 seconds.

But @laurelbeversdorf (and her stellar editing skillz) wanted to show you how you can get from “Resistance bands are hard enough!” to “Barbells are No Big Deal” and – AND – deal with your nagging proximal hamstring tendinopathy (aka Yoga Butt) along the way.

[Obviously and please, work with a professional as far as how/when to progress, managing your pain symptoms, etc.]

➡️But if you used to think either a) resistance exercises aren’t for pain or b) barbells aren’t for you, we’re here to learn you otherwise.

➡️➡️Want more guidance? Check out our new Hip and SI Joint Tutorial and get clear, creative and confident when it comes to addressing the most common hip related issues like:

🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 ‘Tight’ hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!

✅With this 5-hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

✅You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

🔗🔗Link in bio for more – but it goes away in 2 days so let’s carpe that diem!

[Video ID: Laurel performing a progressively more challenging series of exercises that end with a barbell deadlift. Main caption reads “A progression to help you prevent or overcome yoga butt”. Exercises are as follows: 1. Banded hamstring curls 2. Banded long lever bridges 3. Straight knee feet elevated bridge, from 2 to 1 leg 4. Bridge slides eccentric only to concentric 5. Learn deadlift technique 6. Add load 7. Add more load 8. Build up to heavy deadlifts.]

😯Be honest… When it comes to hip pain and t

😯Be honest…

When it comes to hip pain and tightness, are you confident you know the right strategy?

Do you feel energized and excited about your class plan?

Do you feel your creative juices flowing as you work with clients and patients to come up with solutions?

➡️If not, then this is the tutorial for YOU!!!

✅We’ve formulated the Hip & SI Joint Tutorial to help you get clear, creative and confident when it comes to addressing the most common hip related issues like:

🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 ‘Tight’ hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!

✅With this 5-hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

✅You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

✅Are you ready to break free from limiting thoughts and attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain?

✅Do you want to gain critical thinking skills and nuanced language?

✅Want to feel more confident, energized and inspired in your practice and teaching?

🔗Get the tutorial NOW!! (Link in bio)

[Video ID: Sarah talking about what you’ll get in the Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial. Video is fully captioned.]

Episode 25 of the Movement Logic podcast is out! 🎉

In this solo episode, @laurelbeversdorf shares about her history with yoga butt, or, proximal hamstring tendinopathy (high hamstring pain.)

This episode is packed with tendon and muscle physiology. It also busts the big myth that yoga butt (and any yoga-related injury) is because we’re all woefully “overstretched”.

At the end, she shares a 3-step approach to nipping yoga butt in the yoga bud using strength training knowledge and tools.

Additionally she examines:

🍑What yoga butt is (hint: a pain in the butt right at the sit bone more technically referred to as proximal hamstring tendinopathy).

🍑 What a tendinopathy is.

🍑 Short and sweet hamstring anatomy.

🍑 Why yoga students might be more likely to experience PHT.

🍑 That a typical vinyasa or Iyengar-inspired asana class involves a whole bunch of passive forward bends/hamstring stretching and why that makes managing and overcoming yoga butt tough for students in those classes.

🍑 How she nipped yoga butt in the bud.

🍑 The contradictory advice yoga teachers (including me!) used to give about what to do about yoga butt.

🍑 How proximal hamstring tendon compression (rather than tension) plays a role in causing or exacerbating PHT.

🍑 How strength training can help students overcome and avoid yoga butt.

🍑 Why the narrative that we’re overstretched is a distraction away from the solution.

🍑 What motor units are, what muscle recruitment is, and how understanding this aspect of muscle physiology can explain why yoga asana won’t make your tendons stronger but strength training will.

🍑 A 3-step process to overcoming yoga butt as well as encouragement to see a clinician if what you try doesn’t seem to help.

🔗LINK IN BIO TO LISTEN!

(You can also simply search Movement Logic: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held in Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.)

👋See also: Self-limiting language, non-scientif

👋See also: Self-limiting language, non-scientific beliefs…

➡️Look, you’ve probably heard more than one person call an SI joint unstable, so it’s not your fault that the second you started having SI joint pain, those words felt like they must be true.

➡️➡️The thing is though: there comes a point where we have to stop swallowing what we hear wholesale and start questioning if it’s based on any scientific or biomechanical proof.

➡️➡️➡️And from an evolutionary and logical standpoint, why would a joint that has to withstand so much force be so easily “popped out” or “dysfunctional”?

Here are just a few of the myths we’ve heard when it comes to causes of SI joint pain:

❌The SI joint is fragile and unstable
❌It’s out of place
❌It’s moving too much
❌It’s moving too little

In our Hip and SI joint tutorial, we clear up these myths and misconceptions to provide clear, evidence-based strategies and solutions that address some of the underlying causes of SI joint pain like:

🟢Something going on with the other HIGHLY innervated muscles that cross the SI joint (there are 35 muscles that cross the hips and SI joint)
🟢Something going on with the inner unit (aka the core)
🟢Mental/emotional stress
🟢Lack of movement variety/over doing the same, repetitive movements

✅If you’re looking for practical solutions THAT ACTUALLY WORK and that you can start implementing in your classes right away, check out our link and bio and get your copy of the full tutorial available until Nov 28th.

🔗Link in bio to learn more and get your tutorial!

[Video ID: Sarah remixes Laurel’s video where she lip syncs to Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” with the caption “When you can’t stop calling your SI Joint Unstable.”.]

🔥🔥🔥Ooooooh, baby! Call the Fire Departmen

🔥🔥🔥Ooooooh, baby! Call the Fire Department, cos this one’s gonna burn!

We’re all about efficient and effective movement here at Movement Logic, and this one’s no exception. (Cue Stefan from SNL voice) This exercise has EVERYTHING:

✅Hip stabilization
✅Hip strength
✅Balance component
🔥🔥🔥Booty FIRE

➡️If you’re someone who’s always feeling IT band tightness, you may need some more glute med strength – and that’s exactly what you’ll get with this exercise!

➡️➡️And if you’re looking for more research-based, thoughtful, intelligent AND fun movement solutions for IT band tightness or other common hip issues, we’ve got you.

The new Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial is 5 hours of extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

🔗Click the link in bio to read more about the tutorial, watch a sneak peak video, and get your copy!

[Video ID: Jesal performing Wall lunge exercise. Captions included with video.]

✅✅✅ how could I not repost this from the bri

✅✅✅ how could I not repost this from the brilliant @laurelbeversdorf! I clearly need to up my game.

🛒🪑Step 1: get a rolley chair.
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😁Not gonna lie, @sarahcourtdpt is mildly obsessed with this exercise (just ask any of her clients!). Not just because it’s hard, but also because:

✅trains adductors in concentric, isometric, and eccentric phases

✅connects activation of adductors with contralateral obliques, serratus anterior and other diagonal sling stabilizers

✅there are a million and one variations to do here that can emphasize certain elements over others, as well as pretty straightforward regressions/progressions

✅it’s fun! (“fun”)

➡️If you’re looking for research-based, thoughtful, intelligent AND fun movement solutions, we’ve got you.

➡️The new Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial is 5 hours of extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

➡️You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

🔗🔗🔗Click the link in bio to read more about the tutorial, watch a sneak peak video, and get your copy!

[Video ID: Sarah performing Copenhagen exercise with a hip flexion and extension variation. Captions included with video.]

😁Not gonna lie, I’m mildly obsessed with this

😁Not gonna lie, I’m mildly obsessed with this exercise (just ask any of my clients!). Not just because it’s hard, but also because:

✅trains adductors in concentric, isometric, and eccentric phases

✅connects activation of adductors with contralateral obliques, serratus anterior and other diagonal sling stabilizers

✅there are a million and one variations to do here that can emphasize certain elements over others, as well as pretty straightforward regressions/progressions

✅it’s fun! (“fun”)

➡️If you’re looking for research-based, thoughtful, intelligent AND fun movement solutions, we’ve got you.

➡️The new Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial is 5 hours of extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

➡️You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

🔗🔗🔗Click the link in bio to read more about the tutorial, watch a sneak peak video, and get your copy!

[Video ID: Sarah performing Copenhagen exercise with a hip flexion and extension variation. Captions included with video.]

I couldn’t say it better myself. Here’s @laure

I couldn’t say it better myself. Here’s @laurelbeversdorf with some tough love:

Your hamstrings aren’t overstretched. They’re weak.

There, I said it.

Have you (or a student) had high hamstring pain AKA yoga butt (or, proximal tendinopathy?) It’s a pain in the butt right at the origin of your hamstring muscles at your sitting bones and it often crops up during and after long held, static forward bends.

If you answered yes, what do you do about it?

➡️Do you impose alignment rules to solve the problem, like, “I should always bend my knees” or “I should always keep my knees straight in forward folds?” and notice that neither seem to work?

➡️ Do you tie a strap around your thigh?

➡️When students come up to you and describe these symptoms, are you confident in your ability to help them navigate the practice?

➡️Are you afraid that as a yoga teacher you don’t have the tools to help students navigate and prevent yoga butt (proximal hamstring tendinopathy) and you’re sort of bummed because you’d really rather not get your personal trainer certification?

None of the above are long term solutions (especially the last one!)

If you feel a little lost, confused, or bummed about yoga butt, then the Movement Logic Hip & SI Joint Tutorial can help!

✅The Hip & SI Joint Tutorial will make you clear, creative and confident with common hip issues like:

🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 ‘Tight’ hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!

✅With this 5 hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology and pain science education, guided strategies and movement science and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

✅You’ll also get lifetime access and 5 hours YA CEUs.

✅Ready to break free from limiting attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain?

✅Want to gain nuanced critical thinking skills?

✅Want to feel more inspired in your practice and teaching?

🔗Link in bio!

This week on the pod, @laurelbeversdorf is joined

This week on the pod, @laurelbeversdorf is joined by my friend and fellow Movement Logic Tutorials co-creator, Jesal Parikh.

If you don’t already know, @yogawalla is an Indian-American yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in Yoga.

She co-hosts the Yoga is Dead podcast and offers movement education through the lens of social justice.

Jesal’s aim is to uplift those who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry. Pronouns: she/her/they/them.

Together, Jesal and Laurel discuss the topics of cultural appropriation, biodiversity, and accessibility within the yoga practice and community as well as within science.

Jesal offers clear examples and anecdotes to help listeners relate to and understand how, within the context of everyday practice and teaching, these topics play a role in who profits, who benefits, and even who CAN and CANNOT practice yoga.

She offers simple, actionable tips to yoga teachers to help them bring a greater sensitivity and understanding of these topics directly into their teaching.

Link in bio to listen! 👂

💪When @laurelbeversdorf’s daughter Eliana cre

💪When @laurelbeversdorf’s daughter Eliana creates an exercise, you know it’s going to be legit.

🍎does not fall far from the 🌳!

I nominate @laurelbeversdorf @hollaformala @trinaaltman @yogawalla to try this one! Important note: 4 blocks required even though you’re only standing on one. I don’t make the rules.

[Video ID: Sarah’s remix of an exercise created by her friend Laurel’s daughter Eliana called Press Ups: standing on a yoga block and pulling up on a resistance band while doing air squats.]

🤔Self-reflection time: ➡️When it comes to

🤔Self-reflection time:

➡️When it comes to hip pain and tightness, are you confident you know the right strategy?

➡️Do you feel excited about your class plan?

➡️Do you feel your creative juices flowing as you work with clients to come up with solutions?

If not, then this is the tutorial for YOU!

✅The Hip & SI Joint Tutorial will make you clear, creative and confident with common hip issues like:

🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 'Tight' hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!

✅With this 5 hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology and pain science education, guided strategies and movement science and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

✅You’ll also get lifetime access and 5 hours YA CEUs.

✅Ready to break free from limiting attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain?

✅Want to gain nuanced critical thinking skills?

✅Want to feel more inspired in your practice and teaching?

🔗Link in bio!

[ID: Carousel of blue words on white background.
1: What’s the best way to address hip pain? A. stretch B. strengthen C. Massage D. Foam Roll; Unsure??? Swipe ---->
2: When you don’t really know enough about WHY you or your student might be experiencing a hip related issue, it can be difficult to formulate a clear strategy to improve whatever’s going on…
3: That's why we've made the Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial.
4: The tutorial covers the most common hip complaints: IT Band Syndrome, Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome, Yoga Butt, 'Tight' hips, SI Joint Pain, General Hip Weakness and more! 5: You’ll get: Extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology ed; Up-to-date pain science; Guided strategies and underlying movement science principles; Fun, creative & challenging exercises; Lifetime access to 4hrs of content; 5 hours Yoga Alliance CEUs
6: Are you ready to: Break free from limiting thoughts and attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain? Gain critical thinking skills and nuanced language? Feel more confident, energized and inspired in your practice and teaching? Get the tutorial NOW!!! (Link in bio ]

Yogis & ‘Hip Openers” *sigh* 😮‍💨 The

Yogis & ‘Hip Openers” *sigh* 😮‍💨

There’s a saying that goes “When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem seems like a nail.” Well it feels like every time a yoga student mentions hip related pain, the only solutions we as yoga teachers can come up with are ‘hip openers.’

First of all, wtf is a ‘hip opener’? If one exercise ‘opens’ the hip, does another ‘close’ it? Are the hips like a secret door no one told us about?

Vague terms aside, there’s also a lot of misinformation, missing information and pessimism when it comes to the SI joint. Here are just a few of the myths we’ve heard when it comes to causes of SI joint pain:

❌The SI joint is fragile and unstable
❌It’s out of place
❌It’s moving too much
❌It’s moving too little

In our Hip and SI joint tutorial, we clear up these myths and misconceptions to provide clear, evidence-based strategies and solutions that address some of the underlying causes of SI joint pain like:

🟢Something going on with the other HIGHLY innervated muscles that cross the SI joint (there are 35 muscles that cross the hips and SI joint)
🟢Something going on with the inner unit (aka the core)
🟢Mental/emotional stress
🟢Lack of movement variety/over doing the same, repetitive movements

If you’re looking for practical solutions THAT ACTUALLY WORK and that you can start implementing in your classes right away, check out our link in bio and get your copy of the full tutorial available until Nov 28th.

[ID: Jesal wears a pink pullover and mimes to an audio clip from the show Ted Lasso that goes, “I want you to know, I value each of your opinions, even when you’re wrong.” Text overlay reads: “When someone suggests ‘hip openers’ for SI Joint pain”]

🫣When you can’t find anything positive to say

🫣When you can’t find anything positive to say…

…but seriously, until we stop seeing posts like this that promise quick fixes but offer no real solutions, our work isn’t over.

✅If you’re looking for research-based, thoughtful, intelligent AND fun movement solutions, we’ve got you.

✅We’ve formulated the Hip & SI Joint Tutorial to help you get clear, creative and confident when it comes to addressing the most common hip related issues like:

🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 ‘Tight’ hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!

With this 5 hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.

You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.

➡️Are you ready to break free from limiting thoughts and attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain?

➡️Do you want to gain critical thinking skills and nuanced language?

➡️Want to feel more confident, energized and inspired in your practice and teaching?

🔗🔗🔗Get the tutorial NOW!! (Link in bio)

[Video ID: Reel remix of man demonstrating movement claiming to pop SI Joint; Sarah rubs her face in frustration.]

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP!!! 🤔In the mo

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP!!!

🤔In the movement world, we sure do like talking about hips, having opinions about what’s safe and not safe, policing other people’s movement choices… the list goes on.

And yet… how much of what we think we know is actually based on evidence, and how much is it based on an elaborate game of telephone that started with your teacher’s teacher’s teacher and by the time it got to you it had been baked into the ‘wisdom’ of a yoga teacher training?

Look – we’re not out here judging anyone.

Laurel, Sarah and Jesal have themselves had many learning moments along the way, some harder than others.

➡️The good news is that we’re here to help you avoid some of these really common pitfalls (we made the mistakes so you don’t have to!)

➡️We’re offering a free Hips Mini Course to help you wade through the misinformation and find the facts that will help your practice, your teaching, and your perspective.

Interested to dive deeper into conversations like these? With the mini course, you’ll get 4 info-packed, thought-provoking videos delivered straight to your inbox. Topics covered include:

🔹How important are ‘neutral’ hips?
🔹Hip pain and low back pain
🔹Does gender matter when it comes to hip alignment?
🔹Do the hips store emotions?

🔗Get the FREE Hips Mini Course via link in bio. You’ll also get a discount code for the full Hip and SI Joint Tutorial not available anywhere else when you sign up!

But if you want it, todays the last day to get it - so hit the link in bio and go get it!

😝…Sit me baby one more time (I HAD TO) 🤔

😝…Sit me baby one more time (I HAD TO)

🤔Did you sit like this when you were a child? Or have you heard that sitting like this is bad for your kids and you should discourage them from doing it?

🤓That’s what I thought – and when my nephews were little, I actively moved them out of this position countless times.

“Why?” they always asked. “It’s not great for your hips,” I answered.

➡️But guess what? Recent research totally BUSTS this myth!

From a 2021 study (link in bio):

“W-sitting is not associated with developmental dysplasia of the hip, and there is no scientific evidence to support that it leads to contractures, hip dislocations, or functional deficits.”

➡️So there you have it! If you’re a W sitter, or your kids are doing it, there’s one less thing you have to worry about.

💪💪💪Want to bust some more hip myths? Sign up for the @movementlogictutorials Hips Mini Course for 4 info-packed, thought-provoking videos delivered straight to your inbox AND a discount code for the full Hip and SI Joint Tutorial not available anywhere else! Topics covered include:

🔹How important are ‘neutral’ hips?
🔹Hip pain and low back pain
🔹Does gender matter when it comes to hip alignment?
🔹Do the hips store emotions?

🔗Link in bio to sign up!

[Video ID: Sarah in front of the cover of Britney Spears album “…Baby One More Time” with Britney sitting in the W position. Captions included in video.]

🤔Are emotions stored in the hips? Well in our

🤔Are emotions stored in the hips?

Well in our final video for our FREE Hips Mini Course, that’s exactly what we discuss.

As @laurelbeversdorf says in this clip, some people may think it’s ridiculous that emotions could be stored in the hips.

And yet those same people will have a hard time denying that emotions are body-wide experiences and that the hips are a part of the body.

That said, are the hips like a magical cupboard where all our old emotions and trauma are stored like unused cake-pans, just waiting to be spontaneously pulled out? Definitely not.

Join us for the FREE COURSE to learn all about the relationship between our emotions and our bodies and the many factors that play a role in how we process and understand emotions on a physical level. The other 3 videos of this 4-video mini course also cover the topics:

🔹How important are ‘neutral’ hips?
🔹Hip pain and low back pain
🔹Does gender matter when it comes to hip alignment?

Get the FREE Hips Mini Course via link in bio.

[ID: Video consists of a Zoom room with Sarah, Jesal and Laurel. Clip is of Laurel speaking to the question, “Do the hips store emotions?” Subtitles included in video.]

#hipopener #hipopeners #pigeonpose #psoas #hiprelease #hipstretch #yogaandfitness #yogaandstrength #yogaandscience #movementscience #yogatherapy #movementmedicine #movementtraining #functinalanatomy #functionalmovement

😍There’s nothing like a good, juicy, hip stre

😍There’s nothing like a good, juicy, hip stretch to hit that spot, am I right?

😫But what happens when, all of a sudden, that stretch just isn’t hitting like it used to?

Well we’ve got you covered! In our FREE Hips MIni course, we talk all about hip pain and some important considerations when it comes to hip discomfort. We answer prevalent questions like:

➡️Does overstretching cause hip pain?

➡️Can strength training help with hip pain? If so, how?

➡️Is yoga good for strength training?

➡️➡️Plus if you sign up for the mini-course, you’ll get a SPECIAL DISCOUNT 🤫 for our full Hip & SI Joint course - which has a whole section dedicated to hip tightness and what to do about it. We’ve also included guided strategies and tons of exercises that will help you get started right away on your path to happier hips 🥳

🔗Link in bio to sign up for the mini course!

[ID: Jesal mimes to an audio clip from an interview with Sebastian Stan (aka Bucky Barnes from Captain America). Interviewer asks “What happened?” and Sebastian answers “I don’t know. I really don’t know. But like, I really don’t know. No, I really don’t” Text overlay reads: “When you’re go-to stretch for tight hips stops working”]

@laurelbeversdorf can’t get all the way down to

@laurelbeversdorf can’t get all the way down to the floor because (pick one):

A) Practice, all is coming
B) It’s her karma
C) Her unresolved emotions are blocking her hips
D) Everyone has unique anatomy that will make some yoga asanas more or less accessible to perform the ‘right’ way

🤓If you’ve ever believed A, B, or C to be true, we’d like to convince you otherwise.

➡️Right now you can get a FREE Hips Mini Course using the link in bio.

➡️➡️With the mini course, you’ll get 4 info-packed, thought-provoking videos delivered straight to your inbox AND a discount code for the full Hip and SI Joint Tutorial not available anywhere else!

Topics covered include:

🔹How important are ‘neutral’ hips?
🔹Hip pain and low back pain
🔹Does gender matter when it comes to hip alignment?
🔹Do the hips store emotions?

🔗Get the FREE Hips Mini Course via link in bio.

[Video ID: Laurel grunting while doing Hanumanasana (splits pose)]

😫I woke up like this (hair, neck crick) Like

😫I woke up like this (hair, neck crick)

Like I said a few days ago, it’s hard not to throw everything you know at something to try and fix it 100%.

Sometimes, nothing at all is the right approach. Sometimes, just a bit of something is the right approach.

What I did for the crick in my neck:

➡️moved head around, found what was uncomfortable, got a sense of how severe (6/10)

✖️accidentally burned neck warmer in microwave (not part of treatment)

➡️salvaged neck warmer inner part

➡️damp warm heat on sore area, with some slow deep breaths

➡️dynamic resisted movements in sagittal, coronal, transverse plane

➡️re-tested neck movements, pain reduced to 3/10

➡️➡️➡️And then I LEFT IT ALONE for the rest of the day.

💡I noticed that my R neck sidebend was wonky as heck, and that it could use cleaning up (and might be the source of the crick) but I didn’t do anything about it that day. By the following day, my neck was almost totally pain-free.

✅Save this if you wake up with neck crick and want to try a gentle intervention
💌Forward it to anyone you think needs some gentle neck help
🗣Comment with your thoughts

AND

🔗🔗🔗Get on my mailing list! I give out a bunch of free stuff on a regular basis (Link in bio).

When it comes to hip alignment, is gender-based cu

When it comes to hip alignment, is gender-based cueing helpful or harmful?

In lots of yoga classes, we hear cues like “men should take a narrower stance in Warrior 1 and women should take a wider stance.”

In our FREE Hips Mini Course, we talk about the pros and cons of these types of gender-based cues. Spoiler alert: there are way more cons than pros.

One of the biggest cons is that even if gender-based cueing affirms your experience (instead of making you feel excluded), it can still be limiting when applied prescriptively. I.e. Your foot and hip alignment is ALWAYS wider or narrower because of your assigned gender at birth.

If you get too attached to one “right” alignment, even if it feels customized to your specific gender, then you might miss the opportunity to experience poses and exercises in a variety of ways.

Ways that might be more beneficial to your sports performance, pain levels, injury prevention and even your overall daily activities.

Interested to dive deeper into conversations like these? With the mini course, you’ll get 4 info-packed, thought-provoking videos delivered straight to your inbox. Topics covered include:

🔹How important are ‘neutral’ hips?
🔹Hip pain and low back pain
🔹Does gender matter when it comes to hip alignment?
🔹Do the hips store emotions?

🔗Get the FREE Hips Mini Course via link in bio. You’ll also get a discount code for the full Hip and SI Joint Tutorial not available anywhere else when you sign up!

[ID: Video consists of Sarah speaking about gender-based yoga cueing can often lead to missed opportunities when it comes to strength, balance and mobility of the hips. Subtitles included in the video]

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