Lessons from the Lab – The SI Joint

Lessons from the Lab – The SI Joint

Anatomy Lab: Dissection Course for Yoga Teachers I’m back with another observation from the lab, this time with regard to the incredible SI Joint. People ask me all the time, why do I keep returning to the anatomy lab again and again? I have a few reasons why I...
The Orange Analogy Of Muscle and Fascia

The Orange Analogy Of Muscle and Fascia

The Difference Between Muscle Tissue and Connective Tissue: A Guide for Yoga Teachers One of the biggest challenges I see in understanding how adaption works lies in differentiating between tissues. I can’t tell you how often this gets overlooked.  I’ll be...
Lessons from the Lab – The SI Joint

Stress Strain Curve Crash Course

Clarifying the Confusion Around Connective Tissue Stretching: A Guide for Yoga Teachers Are you a yoga teacher in search of a crash course on the stress-strain curve of fascia and other connective tissues? Look no further! In this post, I’m sharing with you a...
The Orange Analogy Of Muscle and Fascia

Design Your Own Study

Designing Your Own Yoga Research Study and Interpreting the Results The ability to understand research and interpret results is a valuable skill for yoga teachers. When reading research papers or journal articles, it can be difficult to make sense of the complex...
Lessons from the Lab – The SI Joint

Lessons from the Lab – Kindness

Anatomy Labs for Yoga Teachers I’m back with another observation from the lab, this time with regard to kindness. In my most recent lab, we had an eye-opening discussion about the difference between reading research about tissue mechanics and observing these...
The Orange Analogy Of Muscle and Fascia

Pose Breakdown – Twists

What Are You Twisting And Why? Just recently, in my 300hr YTT, we spent a fair amount of time talking about twists. I usually get asked the same questions and they are all based on “rules” that have been declared such as: Don’t turn the pelvis Do...