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Understanding the Sacroiliac Joint |
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Asana Anatomy-Understanding the Sacroiliac Joint
Controversy does not often strike the yoga community. Non-harming, truthfulness, and loving kindness are not very controversial concepts. Yet the poor, barely mobile, sacroiliac joint has become the center of a yoga debate – to... |
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Asana Anatomy Upward Facing Dog |
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| Our animal friends are a wonderful study in the fluidity of yoga. It is no coincidence that when a dog wakes from a nap, he can be seen moving slowly through upward facing dog and downward facing dog and casually walk away satisfied. The family pet makes Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, or upward facing do... |
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Asana Anatomy Downward Facing Dog |
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| If you’ve ever taken an Ashtanga or vinyasa flow class, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Downward Facing Dog, is no stranger to you. Downward Facing Dog is a fundamental yoga asana, but a surprisingly complex one. As my teacher recently joked, “If I hear one more instructor say the phrase - ‘ Downward Facing... |
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Asana Anatomy Chaturanga Dandasana |
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| You’re finishing up your yoga class, you can almost feel savasana coming, then the teacher instructs you to perform one last vinyasa. As you step back to plank pose, and begin to lower down into Chaturanga or four legged staff pose, your shoulders dip forward from fatigue and your core refuses to c... |
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Addressing Our Scapular Stabilizers |
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Developing Our Scapular Stabilizers to Prevent Shoulder Injury.
What constitutes a shoulder joint that is prone to injury? Could it be weak rotator cuff musculature? Maybe it is joint laxity and instability? What about capsular restrictions or the work we do on a regular bas... |
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Managing Plantar Fasciitis |
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| Plantar fasciitis is a condition that affects an assortment of individuals. It plagues those who are highly involved in sports as well as those who are sedentary and often a bit overweight. Despite the variety of people it targets, one and all feel the same: frustrated! Fortunately, it can be a s... |
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High Blood Pressure and Inversions |
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| The practice of Yoga poses (Hatha Yoga) offers tremendous health and wellness benefits, but certain health conditions require important modifications and omissions of specific asanas. High blood pressure is a serious health condition that generates many possible contraindications especially in Yoga... |
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Yoga and Developing Proprioception |
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| Balance plays a pivotal role in our lives whether we notice it or not. We are constantly bombarded with external forces that disrupt our equilibrium. So much so, that we often fail to notice, as our bodies are so effectively equipped to deal with such disturbances. We do, however, notice w... |
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Prenatal Yoga and Vocal Toning |
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| When you are pregnant you exercise to tone your muscles, you do yoga, you eat right to keep healthy, you practice your kegals to tone the birthing canal, so why not tone your voice. Singers do it, public speakers do it, and often times, we tone our voices without really knowing that is what we are d... |
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Yoga and Chiropractic |
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| Balance is the medicine for a healthy life. Both yoga and chiropractic center many of their principles on the idea of balance. In yoga, balance exists among sthira (steadiness and alertness) and sukha (the ability to remain comfortable in a posture), pose and counterpose, and prana (the breath tha... |
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Upper Arm Spirals in Down Dog |
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| Downward Facing Dog pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana) comes across as basic forward bending Yoga pose – simple in its application and benefits. However, many yoga participants draw most of their attention to lower half of the body in achieving flexibility in the posterior lines (hamstring and calf muscle... |
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Yoga and Eating Do Not Mix |
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An important preparation for Yoga is avoiding meals prior to the Yoga practice. Generally, we are encouraged to not have eaten 1-2 hours prior to performing Yoga and Breathing (Pranayama) exercises.
Having food in the digestive system can disrupt one’s overall practice. The digestive ... |
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Menstruation and Yoga |
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The practice of yoga postures provides a holistic journey towards physical rejuvenation and healing. Within the cycle of our lifelong practice, we experience times when we must modify the poses and the approach within our poses. Such is the case during periods of menstruation.
Menst... |
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Neck and Shoulder Pain |
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| The following Yoga Anatomy article is an in-depth analysis of how improper spinal alignment and lack of awareness to the scapular region leads to chronic neck and shoulder pain. This article offers guidance in applying correctional cues in your Yoga Class to reduce and/ or eliminate these chronic c... |
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Serotonin and Depression |
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| Depression is one of the most common and treatable of all mental illnesses. One in four women and one in 10 men can expect to develop it during their lifetime. Studies have shown that people suffering from depression have imbalances of neurotransmitters, natural substances that allow brain cells to ... |
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The Knee Part 2 |
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| In Part 1 of this article we left off looking at the deepest, most intrinsic structures that make the knee function as it does. In this part of the article we'll continue to look at another deep structure, the meniscus and also talk about some of the soft-tissues (muscles and ligaments) that affect ... |
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The Knee Part 1 |
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| Making our way up the body from the feet, the next major joint we come to is the ever elusive and sometimes tricky knee. This knobby pair of joints are often an enthusiastic topic of conversation amongst yogis as it seems everyone knows somebody who's either injured a meniscus or torn and ACL, or do... |
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Yoga For Asthma Cure |
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| Yoga has helped in curing and preventing many diseases. The poses and asanas stimulate the required organs and help you with your ailments. Asthma is a very common problem. It is basically shortness of breath due to the chronic lung condition. Even kids are not spared by this disease. Symtoms of whe... |
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Adrenal Fatigue |
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Adrenal Fatigue and How to Beat It. Your adrenal glands are two tiny pyramid-shaped pieces of tissue situated right above each kidney. Their job is to produce and release, when appropriate, certain regulatory hormones and chemical messengers.
Adrenaline is manufactured i... |
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The Almighty Psoas Muscle |
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| Your Body's Center of Movement - The foundation of our bodies and our yoga practice lies at our feet. In order to incorporate both physical and energetic foundations, we must examine our body's center of energy, movement and balance which begins near the psoas muscle -- the pair of deep muscles exte... |
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Foot Foundation |
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| Those wonderful glorious feet, unfortunately kept in containers (shoes) most of the day. Poor things have quite a responsibility in both our everyday walking/living life and particularly in our yoga practice. The feet are our foundation in both. As a therapist the feet are one of the first things I ... |
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Therapy for Low Back Pain |
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| Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain. Another cause of low back pain is lumbar facet and sacro-ilial joint compression in extension. This mechanical stress to the joints inflames the surrounding tissue, including the nerve roots. When one stands unskillfully with increased lordosis, pel... |
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Discogenic Low Back Pain |
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| Anatomy of the Spine. A basic vertebra is comprised of a bony block and a bony ring. The block is sandwiched between disks. The ring houses the precious spinal cord. The ring consists of 2 pedicles, 2 lamina, 1 spinous process, and 2 transverse processes. Processes are levers that attach to musc... |
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Reawakening the Spine |
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The human spine is a segmental structure, consisting of 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral [fused], and 4 coccygeal [fused] vertebrae. Of course, the sacral and coccygeal "vertebrae" are considered part of the pelvic girdle as sacrum and coccyx.
A basic vertebra is comprised... |
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SI and Lumbar Facet Pain |
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The following article is an in-depth analysis (anatomy and mechanical function), of the pelvis and lower verterbral structures. To assist your reading, understanding, and application of the following information, you may want to refer to a detailed anatomy text.
Anatomy of the Pel... |
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