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10/07/2025

Feeling “tight”?

So is everyone else. It’s called being at your end range, not a personality trait. 😏

Your hamstrings aren’t broken. Your hip flexors don’t need saving. You’re just... human with normal sensations.

📣 My Science of Stretching webinar is coming up on July 31st. And yes, we talk about this (and way more). Details in comments.

06/07/2025

I was surprised… and also not surprised 😒
Turns out weekends don’t belong to women.

You're doing the laundry, the errands, the meals, the driving, the planning, the scheduling, the parenting. And somewhere in there, trying to grow as a yoga teacher? Nope.

So I am sticking with the schedule that actually works better for you - weekday sessions. Space to be present for yourself.

One-off weekends are great for individual courses. But a 300hr YTT that's spread out over a year? It's just too hard to keep everyone online and on task.

🎥 I explain more in the video.

👇 Do weekends feel like yours? Or do they belong to everyone else?

Want to talk more about it? Join the Q&A on August 5th. Links in the comments.

02/07/2025

14 ways to practice high crescent lunge. Swipe to see them all. Put your favorites that I missed in the comments.

1️⃣ Reach up and back for the wall and then push for a nice backbend.

2️⃣ Back foot on the wall, the heel as high up the wall as your toe extension will allow.

3️⃣ Reach hands up the wall, a great way to work around any low back or hip flexor sensitivity.

4️⃣ Sit backwards in a chair to support the back hip and push to lift the chest.

5️⃣ Front foot on 2 blocks takes some of the range off the back hip and still lets you lunge deep.

6️⃣ Hold a heavy bolster or blanket in your arms stretched out in front of you to help engage the abs and find the stack.

7️⃣ Hold a bolster overhead to help with shoulder flexion coupled with T-spine extension.

8️⃣ Bend the back knee onto 2 blocks for a great stretch feeling with a little less range.

9️⃣ Back foot on a blanket cuz 😈

🔟 Front foot on the wall for extra range.

1️⃣1️⃣ Belt around the pelvis with a forward pull on the back leg side to add some extra lines of tension to the anterior and medial stuff.

1️⃣2️⃣ Sandbag near the front hip crease for an added sense of grounding and anchoring of the pelvis.

1️⃣3️⃣ Hold a kettlebell overhead because 💪 and 🔥

1️⃣4️⃣ In a handstand at the wall.

Join me in my online 300hr YTT in 2026 and you'll put variations like these into practice and purpose. We will talk about why you would choose them, for whom, and how to blend them into a larger sequence.

Registration is open. Link in the comments.

08/03/2025

If you're tired of scrolling social media, seeing conflicting points of view, and wondering who is right, then my flagship course, Yoga Biomechanics, is for you. I give you the foundation to think critically about methods, styles, points of view, industry opinions, and more. You learn to think for yourself rather than rely on trends, authority figures, or one-size-fits-all answers. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by contradictory information, you'll gain the tools to analyze, question, and apply biomechanics and principles of exercise science in a way that makes sense for you and your students.

If you’ve ever:

✔️ Wondered why some poses feel great one day and awful the next
✔️ Been confused by contradictory yoga advice
✔️ Wanted to stop worrying about whether you’re “doing it right”
✔️ Needed better ways to support students with pain, hypermobility, or injuries

…then sign up today.

March 21-23, 2025
9am - 5pm Pacific time
Replay available for 30 days
Yes, you may miss a session

Link in the comments

02/03/2025

20 ways to practice Warrior 2. Swipe to see them all. I legit had to delete a handful. Once I started, I couldn't stop.

1️⃣ Supine with the feet at the wall (I can teach a whole workshop on the nuance here).

2️⃣ Front foot on a block.

3️⃣ Edge of the back foot and pack hand press into the wall.

4️⃣ Block between front knee and wall.

5️⃣ Press a bolster overhead.

6️⃣ Front foot up the wall (hello adductor stretch).

7️⃣ Hang a blanket on the back arm.

8️⃣ Lift the inner back thigh with a strap.

9️⃣ Dowel at T-spine.

🔟 Press a dowel into the floor.

1️⃣1️⃣ Back foot on a sliding surface (think cartoon banana peel).

1️⃣2️⃣ Sit backward in a chair.

1️⃣3️⃣ Sit diagonally over the corner of a chair.

1️⃣4️⃣ Block between front lateral thigh and wall.

1️⃣5️⃣ Block between the back posterior thigh and wall.

1️⃣6️⃣ Gas pedal front ball of foot into the wall.

1️⃣7️⃣ Bow and arrow with a theraband.

1️⃣8️⃣ Hang a sandbag from the front anterior hip.

1️⃣9️⃣ Hands pulling isometrically down the wall.

2️⃣0️⃣ In a handstand at the wall.

If I had the time and space I'd explain each one. Oh wait, I do. I'm teaching an online 3-day Yoga Biomechanics course March 21-23 and we can discuss all of these and another 20 versions for dozens of other poses.

26/02/2025

2 things:

1️⃣
This was me in 1995 when I first started yoga. My lower back would start to ache after the first few minutes of savasana. My back eventually adapted and it hasn't been an issue since. As teachers, it's eady to forget these things and not realize what our students might be experiencing. This DM was a nice reminder.

2️⃣
The first option I give here changed my life forever. I'm not being dramatic. My teacher put me in that pose (feet on the bolster with the sandbag) for about 20 minutes and my awareness was never the same! It unlocked a whole new world of pelvic positioning for me. My downdog was unrecognizable and never felt so good.

While #2 is not really the point of this post, I couldn't help but share. It really helped me embody yielding. IYKYK

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