Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

If you talk with someone who lives with MS about their symptoms, you’ll hear them say, “My MS is ______ sided.” MS symptoms are often more predominant on one side than the other. My MS is right-sided, so as a result…

I am a yoga teacher of 18 plus years. I now teach Yoga Tune Up®. I also have MS, a somewhat hairy neurological disease. I’ll bore you with the gory details of how MS affects me some other time. Let’s just…

Downward facing dog is one of the most commonly taught poses in yoga class, but is it a good idea for your shoulders? One key element is the need to successfully keep your shoulders in external rotation and also pronate the…

I recently sent a link to an article about yoga injuries to a long-term client that I was currently seeing for a shoulder injury. My client’s response was brief – that although the article was interesting, she did not associate her…

This YTU Half Happy Baby series will stretch the iliacus of the thigh that is on the floor (not the lifted leg). You will get the most out the stretch from the first part of the movement when you press the…

If the iliacus could speak, I think it would say something like this: “Why does the psoas major get all the attention? Really, did I do something wrong? Because last time I checked, I’m a muscle too. Sure, I may not…

The first day of Level 1 Teacher Training opens with Jill talking about sankalpa and I think, “ugh… she’s gonna ask me to set my intention.” I resist rolling my eyes back and force my mind to stay present. I’ve never…

In this Yoga Tune Up® Half Happy Baby Minivini pose, the sartorius is highlighted as both the agonist (the worker) and the antagonist (the stretcher).  The happy baby leg is dynamically activating the sartorius when the hip is externally rotated, abducted…

A few years back I was in India for an entire month to do my 200 hour teacher training. I meditated daily without any extra support from props or walls (I was in a palapa), and I had lectures all afternoon,…