Engaging your entire posterior chain in this common pose can be a game changer on what you get out of the shape!

We want our spine to move in all different ways as well as be able to find neutral. Neutral is also an excellent place to be able to feel a solid core connection. Use this little tip to build the awareness in your body to be able to find neutral spine in any shape.

Grippy traps?! Try this 3 times on each side, gently contenting and fully relaxing the tissues around this area. Notice the difference between sides and then do the other side! Enjoy!

If you move through triangle too fast you might miss all the opportunities for increasing strength and range of motion and all the other therapeutic effects!

Finding integration and connection throughout our poses helps build balance, confidence and strength! That translates into more coordination and freedom of movement in everyday life. Enjoy this little flow with a few action cues that naturally bring about this integration.

This 20-minute practice is for those days that you could use a short, feel-good practice that focuses on breath and down regulating the nervous system. Enjoy!

Using a strap is a fun way to find new and different activations and sensations in common shapes!

Refine your downward dog to customize the pose to your needs, your dog will look different than everyone else’s! But finding the work, the effort, the co-contractions will help you make change the feel your best!

Discovering multiple ways to move into your forward fold is a good thing! Moving in the exact same way every time can contribute to things getting cranky. Try this low back supportive hip hinge the next time you make your way into forward fold and see how it feels! My bet...strong, stable, supported, and engaged!

Add some interesting variety in your hip movements with this abducting sideways downward dog, good stuff!

Give your side body a little love with this short sequence (sped up a bit).

A cue often used for tree pose is to avoid the knee with the lifted leg. I argue, modern science is telling us the opposite. Our tissues need load and stress to get stronger, to build capacity. 

Boost neural activity with this fresh look at an old favorite

Interested in hips that feel open and awesome? Play with this flow to move your hips in all different directions!

This active version of bow will definitely give you some sensations to explore!

Down dog is super common in our yoga practice and sometimes we can move through it so fast we can miss all it has to offer. Give these activations a try and see what new information you send to your shoulder joints to build strength and capacity!

We ask a lot out of our wrists in yoga, a 90 degree of extension, as in plank pose, can be challenging and uncomfortable. Use this prop placement to help support your wrists while building strength to work up to feeling your best.

Three of my favorite ways to help feel less grippy in your neck and shoulders.

Playing with adding light weights (optional of course) to certain pieces of our flow. Check out these sample moves for some ideas we will be playing with.

Cross-lateral and cross-midline movements are powerful for the body and brain! Strengthening neural connections between the right and left hemisphere of the brain and cultivate better coordination, balance and reset the nervous system for a calm blissed out feeling! Give this flow a try.

Do this any time throughout the day to give the top of your foot a little movement love! Especially great during the summer with flip-flop wearing season!

Traveling? Use this flow any time you need a little pick-me-up and unwinding during your journey.

Blocks offer us a multitude of ways to enhance our practice! Check it out.

It is common for many of us to loose touch with our ideal expansive rib cage breath. Re-discovering the fullness of breath, moving the rib cage and using the diaphragm fully, is a game-changer for the mind and body. 

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For the full diaphragm video: https://youtu.be/hp-gCvW8PRY

Getting the whole body involved in your cobra pose can make a huge difference in how it feels! Try these few tips and see what happens.

Make this transition as smooth as possible with these tips.

Challenge your balance and give some love to your shoulders with this fun and strong sequence.

This move is one of my favorites to rehab or pre-hab the shoulders.

Get creative with these common yoga poses to spice things up! Remember, press down into the sliders while moving, it makes all the difference with engaging all those supportive muscles.

Playing with sliders in common poses make for a new experience... and often a bit more effort!

Being able to move your joints well in all different shapes is one way to keep those joints happy and possibly improve how they feel!

Find global integration in this shape to get all these pose’s benefits minus any injury!

Need to a boost in your focus and concentration? Try this fun 4 minute brain break and see how you feel!

Chaturanga is a fancy name for push up/down that is often cued with elbows into the sides. However, keeping a global engagement throughout the movement can be a challenge! Instead, try these cues out to see how strong your push up/down can feel! 

Instead of yanking and pulling on the front of your hips in hopes of easing tension, this week we will work on being gentle but strong and notice and discover how all our hip stuff (as well as the rest of the body) works together to help areas of tension find their happy place!

Yoga offers us the perfect opportunity to elicit tissue change, try these ideas out to give your hamstrings some needed strength to help them feel their best!

Strong feet helps us move and balance with more ease in life! We ask a lot out of our feet but rarely give them any love, try this move and see how it goes!

We all move in different ways with a variety of patterns, strengths, limitations, etc. Finding the effort in our poses is what will cultivate change and adaption for feeling our best! This fun little flow  emphasizes some of those cues that help you find more instead of “right”. 😊

Try these cues to discover a new level of effort in this pose and quite possibly discover a few areas you didn’t know could be worked in this seemingly simple shape.

Try this fun cue to find a bit more connection in the top hip in half moon pose!

Finding ways to wake up the smaller stabilizing muscles of the shoulders can make a powerful addition to any flow and start to build strength and new awareness in these joints. 

Playing in dolphin pose in a fun way to prep or build up to forearm stand. Try little hops on one leg and progress to switching from leg to leg mid-air. Have fun!

Simple yet challenging flow to play with balance

A creative little flow for our class this week. Try adding tree pose to your daily yoga flow.

The common versions of eagle and cow face arms are all good, but try these variations to feel more engagement and find greater mobility.