Listen to Episode 11: Stuck in the Sympathetic Nervous System

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"Pilates derives specifically from yoga. I started in the Ashtanga school of yoga and I was, like, an Ashtanga fascist."

"In an ideal world, in an ideal body, those two systems are constantly working together to create homeostasis, which means life in balance..."

"What it means is, you're not going to get out of your sympathetic nervous system as long as you're with your boss, and the phrase that everybody knows is you're walking on eggshells..."

"You just mean that when I say that people habitually lean backwards, whether that, in and of itself, is an indication of sympathetic nervous system dysfunction?"

"The psoas can cause pain in so many different ways. The function of the psoas is to pull the lumbar spine forward and down..."

"What I said to her: what I think you're dealing with is your nervous system getting rocked twice in about five minutes and having no ability to understand or process that?"

"Breathing is everything and what I teach in tadasana and I teach in my posture is that I don't think anyone breathes successfully; everyone is elevated in the front of the ribcage."