The book Human Movement Potential by Lulu Sweigard has had an outsized influence on the work I do. I wouldn’t call it a breezy read- I am embarrassed to say how many times I have …
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Muscle Balance and Long Term Fitness
It has taken professional athletes a long time to come around to the concepts of yoga and the benefits of muscle balance and deep core work. As an article from yesterday’s New York Times suggests, …
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Grasping at straws.
No matter how many times I draw the bones of the hands and feet I get dizzy in the process. It’s a little like descending a circular stairway hanging in the sky, on the side …
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The Sub Occipital Muscles and Forward Head Posture
Where is your head is as you read this sentence? Is it reaching forward towards the computer monitor or is it back in line with the rest of the spine? If the ears are forward …
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Yoga Poses: Variation on a Runners Stretch
The pose in the video above is a variation on a classic runners stretch. It is a fairly intense variation if done with the proper alignment. A few weeks ago I wrote about a class …
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Yoga Instructions: Feet Together or Feet Apart.
Strange things happen to yoga instructions. They often seem to morph over time into something new and slightly different. This isn’t a bad thing but I often wonder why it happens. When I started doing …
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Sleep Positions and Lower Back Pain
Regular readers might have noticed by now that I am fairly obsessed with sleep positions. I am also pretty obsessed with lower back pain — the two are intimately connected. In addition, I love asking …
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The Books On My Shelf
My children are very lucky. Their parents love what they do for a living. The same couldn’t be said about my parents. My wife Caitlin, who is a childbirth educator and post partum doula, and …
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Core Walking Website
Six years ago, while driving in a car with my brother, I announced that I was going to teach people how to walk. I didn’t know much about walking but I knew a lot about …
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