Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

A few weeks ago, I taught a Yoga Tune Up® class that focused on the psoas. I started by educating my students on the very basic anatomy of this deep gut muscle. All across the room I begin to witness complete…

Several week ago I began working with a new private client. The only information I was given was that the client was a woman with arthritis. When I arrived, a frail older woman wearing orthopedic shoes and using a walker greeted…

There has been a lot of buzz lately about fascia and luckily Yoga Tune Up® founder Jill Miller and I are both fascia geeks, or rather “afascianados” (teachers – I invite you to join my facebook group by that name). I’d…

Last September I was in a car crash that resulted in my vehicle being ‘written off’ – and I felt sort of the same way.  Luckily I left the car wreck – with bumps, bruises, and only whiplash.  This term whiplash…

Yoga Tune Up®’s Revolved Abdominal Pose is all encompassing.  I could recommend this pose to almost anyone for so many reasons. I practice this pose almost daily. A few words come to mind to describe it: Unwind, strength, up regulating, down…

In Part 1 of this article, in addition to Megaplank and Raise the Chalice, I referred to Dolphin Supinate as being an excellent Yoga Tune Up® pose to activate and strengthen the serratus anterior muscle and stabilize the shoulder girdle.  In…

As a teacher, have you ever walked around your class when everyone is in Plank pose and noticed that about half the class or more has their ‘wings’ sticking up?  Then you cue Chatturanga and WOW do those ‘wings’ really start…

Dynamic movement has been shown through a multitude of various research studies to be the best form of activity for awakening, strengthening, and elongating the myofascial complex of tissues. The Yoga Tune Up® pose Half Happy Baby is a great mini…

The piriformis is a strap of pear-shaped muscle running across your backside deep to the much larger (and more celebrated) gluteus maximus. It is small but mighty especially when it is unhappy. Poor piriformis is often plagued with tightness or overuse/overstrain…