About a month ago I woke up in so much pain that getting out of bed felt hard, walking even harder. In that moment my mind went back to something I had been doing on the weekend, nothing crazy but some unnecessary asymmetrical movements in an unstable position. I was so angry at myself and spent the next few days in a state of both high pain as well as high emotion
Read MoreYoga is a toolkit for liberation, that has too often been appropriated both for oppression, and for well-meaning disempowerment.
Read MoreOver the weekend I found myself in social media trouble........I was accused of shaming someone, someone I did not know. My first thought was to feel utterly awful, to want to go back and retract my words but then I sat with it and pondered why I had felt the need to comment against a post I saw written and I let my words stay there.
Read MoreSo much of yoga seems to be focused on hip opening and yet what we seem to forget is that before we do this, it really does help to have a kinesthetic sense of alignment and stability in the pelvis and hip sockets else we run the risk of ignoring the signals of the body and potentially over-stretching the ligaments.
Read MoreYour body is designed to deal with stress.
In fact, you are brilliantly equipped to deal with fear.
When your body contracts, it is preparing itself for imminent pain.
When you find yourself bracing, clenching, tightening it does this because to be vulnerable is dangerous, it is a matter of survival.
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