Being able to stand with a vertical leg and a kneecap that is relaxed down is not only an important movement to be able to execute, but is essential everyday alignment. In this video, I talk a little about the ability to wiggle the kneecaps and help you find your way there.
Read MoreIf you have an obscene amount of laundry to fold and want to get in close to an hour's workout for the backs of your legs, this will fit the bill.
Read MoreA tale of miscarriage and personal transformation.
Read MoreWhy stay active when all your food is harvested for you and you can buy it with the work you do while sitting all day? Why change your life to meet your body's movement requirements when you've been trained to be still since infancy? Why give yourself permission to let the belly release when your entire culture is screaming at you to look thin? Why set aside so much of what you've learned when you've gotten by on its tenets?
Read MoreIt rained cats and dogs yesterday and, intent as I was on getting off pavement, I found myself having to navigate some seriously soppy patches of trail. After a mere half mile with water through my socks, my toes were screaming in pain.
Read MoreI used to see illness as a failure of the body, but in answering my son, I kept coming back to the fact that his (and my) sickness was the way our bodies were taking care of us.
Read MoreHere's a little something to help you unwrap your shoulder, arm and chest tension, whether it's holiday induced or not.
Read MoreI used to get terrible menstrual cramps. In college, I remember thinking that my neighbors who shared a wall must be sure that someone in my apartment was having loud sex. But no, the bed banging against the wall and the moans weren't pleasure-induced. It was just me, having gotten my period.
Read MoreWe live in a culture that pushes toxic body messages. But this idea of not stopping to listen? Not heeding what you hear? Never resting? This is perhaps the most toxic.
Read MoreLet's say that if you want the most ideal health, you might be best served by undergoing a lengthy (read: years) conditioning program in the woods and then be released permanently into nature. But you're not going to do that. And neither am I. How about we work on a Plan B?
Read MoreYour whole body-mind health and resilience is wildly intertwined with healthy psoas muscles. This simple practice is revolutionary and can be life-changing.
Read MoreReady to start fixing those feet? These six exercises will help get you there.
Read MoreClearly the feet need lots of love. So what do we do? We buy them shoes! Imelda bought her feet lots of shoes. Unfortunately, the foot is best served by freedom. The less shoe, generally the better.
Read MoreOur culture's technological advancements have had the direct effect of causing our bodies to suffer in numerous ways. Technology leads to comfort and the body is all about the path of least resistance, even when it comes at a high cost. It's not your fault. And you can do something about it.
Read MoreAfter a few minutes of hip opening stretches, what had previously felt like rage now seemed practically innocuous. I was seeing red, flooded with bitterness and self-righteousness. I hated the world.
Read MoreWe're not as toned as we'd like to be so we're tucking our pelvises, creating arbitrary contractions in our abdominal muscles and mostly? Mostly, we're sucking in our guts. We're eating and sucking in. We're peeing and sucking in. We're birthing and sucking in. We're driving and sucking in. We're writing this blog and sucking in.
Read MoreRestorative Exercise™ in the real life doesn't always look like a traditional workout. Not only is it nearly impossible to undo several decades of poor alignment and chronic stillness without incorporating RE principles throughout the day, it's also not always easy to find a solid hour or more to work out.
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