Hello beautiful friends, My message for today is to invite and encourage you to create a strong foundation for your spine to be more at ease and alive simultaneously. If you’re someone who experiences lumbar spine pain, there’s a very simple two-step practice you can do every day to diminish the strain and tension in your lower back. This practice may even promote improved core activation and strength. Firstly let’s look at tension. Tension arises in your body in respons

Hello beautiful friends, This topic is something I've been wanting to share for a long time. We all know that movement or exercise is essential for our health and no doubt many of you reading this blog exercise regularly. My question for you today is this - are you simply going through the motions, repeating movements in a rote manner just to get the job done? Or, are you truly making a difference? When you exercise do you feel the change in your body? Do you feel stronger, m

Here's the lowdown on walking with good posture, natural alignment, power and grace.

Or, Are You Ahead of the Rest? Hello beautiful friends, Most of us are motivated by pain. Pain has a way of waking us up and forcing us to put our body’s best interests first. When pain becomes loud enough, we finally do what’s needed to move away from it. Far fewer people, however, are motivated to embody good posture for its own sake — though I happen to think good posture is pretty sexy. The truth is, in many cases, improving your posture is precisely the path that leads t

A daily practice of opening the front body, expanding the breath and awakening inner spaciousness. Hello beautiful friends, Have you ever paused to imagine yourself at ninety? Not just your age, but how you might move —how your spine might feel, how you might stand, walk, and breathe. Do you picture yourself still moving freely, at ease in your own body? For most of us, unless we are dedicated movers or lifelong yogis, some mobility will naturally fade with age. I know it wil

Hello beautiful friends, I see it everywhere I look. People mis-using their bodies. People abusing their bodies. People contributing to their own pain and the steady demise of their natural freedom of movement. I see slumping, heads sticking way out in front of the body, shoulders forward and rounded, knees locked in standing and lots of dumping of body weight into the lower back. And then they say they have back pain. What I’m about to share with you today I’ve been teaching

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Hello beautiful friends, It's a daily struggle, not to slump. I understand. It's not easy to keep your chest upright. We're all a little (well, a lot) guilty of spending our days looking down - at our phones, computers and simply at the ground beneath our feet, especially if you're like me and walk barefoot in the national park where the ground is uneven and strewn with roots and stones. We're also constantly bending and lifting. With all this forward action, it's no wonder