Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

The time has come for you to trust your strength, endurance, and intuition. Empower your body to ride the journey of both pregnancy and labor with a dynamic yoga practice! As a yoga teacher for over 15 years and mom to…

Some well-honed physiques are currently on display at the Olympic Games in London, and it's fascinating to see how each sport's demands craft different strengths (and let's be honest, imbalances too) in the competing athletes. Kendra wrote earlier this week about…

Let’s start with a synchronized swimming lesson. If you’ve seen synchronized swimming, you’ve seen moments when legs are flying out of the water and maybe you’ve thought “how the heck?” Forbidden from using the bottom of the pool, synchronized swimmers have…

Here’s a clip of some simple ball work for the upper back that can help reduce healing time for mild inflammation in muscles and their surrounding connective tissues. As always, do not roll on severely inflamed, bruised or broken tissue –…

During workshops, trainings and in interviews I’ve heard Jill begin to explain the benefits of Yoga Tune Up® by saying  “All too often we underuse, misuse and abuse our bodies.” The Yoga Tune Up® methodology and Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls…

Teaching yoga for over 30 years, I am always happy to discover something that I have overlooked in how to convey movement (sometimes very abstract movement) to my students so that they get it! We all get stuck sometimes. Teachers can get stuck…

A new client arrived in my studio, admittedly desperate and practically in tears. Two Thanksgivings ago she had taken a long afternoon hike afternoon, then woke up the next morning in pain. Her doctor told her not to exercise until he…

A long-practicing client of mine has chronic knee pain and been diagnosed with chondromalacia (for her that means inferior, medial and lateral patella pain). She’s adapted by padding up for kneeling poses, and we have worked together diligently to address tissue…

“My doctor couldn’t find anything on the MRI, so he suggested I try yoga. He’s heard it helps.” This has been a common refrain from new clients with old injuries who have come to work with me. They are in pain,…