Have you ever wondered if you’re truly giving your shoulders the care they deserve? In our modern world, our shoulders are often overlooked until we face discomfort or injury. Unlike our ancestors, who were constantly climbing, lifting, and moving, our daily routines involve a lot more sitting and far less shoulder engagement. This shift in lifestyle means we need to …
In this week’s newsletter, we’re looking into the nuances of hand placement in Chaturanga and what really matters. If you’ve spent any time with me, you know I like to find the why, I like to push boundaries, and I like to challenge ways of thinking. I think it’s absolutely essential to question long-held postural beliefs in yoga to continually …
You’ve heard it mentioned a million times in class. “Engage your core!”, “Using your core…”, “Engage Uddiyana Bandha..”. But rarely ever is it actually explained and if it is, most of the time it’s “pull your belly in”. Here I breakdown what your core consists of. It’s more complicated than you think. Rethinking the Core It’s not just the six …
Do you have a shoulder? Sounds like a stupid question right? Hear me out on this. Our shoulders need to flex, extend, adduct, abduct and rotate in and out of all these positions to perform the daily tasks we ask of our shoulders. I’ve mentioned before that our body does an unbelievable job overcompensating to make sure that we can …
