Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

Besides the obvious physical benefits, yoga helps to slow you down mentally so that you can learn to distinguish between the urge to eat and the emotional impulses that sometimes drive us to eat to quell our feelings.

One of the wonderful aspects of yoga is its ability to teach us how to manage our stress levels.

My Mother lives primarily in her Sympathetic Nervous system. Decoded, this means, she is in a constant state of stress. Sometimes it is situational, but mostly it is due to years of unresolved emotional stress. Left to support two young girls…

One of the primary benefits of yoga is to down-regulate the nervous system and induce a state of calm. We have all experienced a savasana that left us blissful and smiling all the way home. You may have thought it was simply because of the physical challenge of the asanas, but what truly made the difference was your quality of breath!

Avoiding a regular practice of stretching will never get you the healing benefits that come with the work. Even if you only do one pose a day, you will make a huge difference in your body, brain and well-being.

Yoga Tune Up® helps a 22 year old recover from and correct asymmetry caused by a hip injury so she can once again enjoy riding her beloved horse, Magic.

When the muscles of the gluteal group, located around the hip, are tight, it can lead to low back pain. The three muscles of the gluteal group are Gluteus Maximus, Medius, and Minimus. Their names reflect the size of the muscle, and somewhat indicate their location from superficial (maximus) to deep (minimus).

Before athletic activity, wake up all the fibers of your muscle and connective tissues in your joints with dynamic stretches like the Pranic Bath exercise for shoulders, elbows, and wrists.

Dynamic movement happens when the body keeps moving from one motion to the next without stopping. This type of action warms up the tissues of the body, improves circulation and prepares us for activity. When we are still, we grow a…