Brains! You have a brain! You're carrying around 2.5 to 3 pounds of it in your head at all times, no wonder your neck gets sore. Not only are you carrying this weight in your head, you're carrying the evolutionary development of our species. According to the...
First, a storyA couple Fridays ago I was talking to a friend and fellow yoga teacher about integration. You know, bringing the pieces together, making them talk. Finding the connection points. As our conversation unfolded, I recognized something in myself. I had been keeping my...
Breath, by James NestorI just finished reading a book called Breath by James Nestor, which tells the informative story of one man's years long process of understanding breathing. Let me tell you, if you're a mouth breather the book will feel shockingly grim. Nestor's well researched main ideas...
Polyvagal Theory Last time I posted I wrote about your autonomic nervous system – your fight/flight and rest/digest response. In this post I want to introduce you to a bit more nuance in understanding how we as humans deal with threat and trauma, using Polyvagal Theory...
Stress and RelaxationWhen teaching people about their stress and relaxation responses I try to be careful not to demonize the stress side of things. It seems to me that in the "wellness world," we overemphasize the rest/digest response without touching into the importance of activating....
Anatomy Based Classes and Videos Free Anatomy Based Yoga Videos Online by Quinn. These classes educate you on your physical anatomy focused on a specific area of your body....
Sharing your experienceDo you talk about your yoga practice to anyone else? Do you journal about it? Do you think on it? There are a few of you that I talk with regularly about your practices, and at the end of Zoom classes we've started to share...
I'm doing a somatics immersion series with one of my favorite teachers, Lisa Petersen out of Ireland and I want to share with you something I learned recently.It's about our development as humans from the very earliest moments we begin to materialize as bodies: embryonic development....
What's stopping you from getting where you're going? Back up, I'm not asking about the grand scheme of things, although that's a good inquiry in itself. Today I'm talking about physically, your range of motion. What's stopping you from moving in a certain way? The answer...
Last weekend I was practicing with an upturned chair under the dogwood tree when I had an interesting yoga experience. It was nothing magical, and perhaps just a series of coincidences that my human brain registered as a pattern. But I had a poignant insight about myself...