Do-at-home, no-equipment-needed, non-invasive therapeutic skills are indispensable for effectively managing stress, anxiety, exercise burnout, pain and more. The following three self-care skills and accompanying practices will help you understand and transform your experience of pain. Self-Care Skill #1: Notice Your Pain…

“No man can tell me what to do with my body. Only women’s magazines can do that.”  -Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project There is plenty of pressure from the media and Instagram world to look thin (but also curvy!), confident and sexy. …

Good Posture: How the power of the pose can affect self confidence As a new yoga teacher, I attended a five-day retreat with yoga teaching legend Judith Lasater. The expertise in the room was overwhelming. I spent the first several days…

During my typical day as a teacher and graduate program coordinator on a college campus, I have seen disturbing ergonomic habits wherever I look, whether in my building or while moving across campus.  Many young people do not yet feel the…

“Let’s address the emotions and feelings you’re having… and stop shoving it down.” Michelle Garcia has not followed a common career path. Her profession has spanned from spending 20 years in law enforcement, as a patrol officer and detective, to becoming…

This post will help you learn how to have great posture.  For starters, imagine that your pelvis, ribcage, and head are like a child’s wooden playing blocks. Are they level and aligned? Does their positioning set you up nice and tall,…

If there were ever a body blind spot, it certainly would be the pelvic floor. In sports, movement classes, private coaching, Physical Therapy, etc., the pelvic floor has historically been left alone. Many of the professionals working with these clients don’t…

When I contemplate the basic five human senses–sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch–sight stands out as my most coveted sense.  The sense of sight allows us to visually take in all the beauty that is around us. It is also vital…

We generally don’t appreciate our feet until there is a problem, a sentiment captured well in a local foot clinic’s tagline: Get back to not thinking about your feet. Each foot has 26 bones and 33 joints all held in position…