Chaturanga Dandasana is one of the most talked about yoga asanas and tends to create challenges for yoga practitioners and yoga teachers alike for two main reasons…
Read moreIs it Bad to Elevate Your Shoulder Blades in Yoga?
In the wider yoga community, there tends to be a preference for drawing the shoulder blades down in almost every asana and often a belief that this is ‘right’ and that allowing the shoulder blades to lift towards the ears is ‘wrong’.
Read moreIs Internal Shoulder Rotation in Downward Facing Dog Bad?
It’s very common for yoga teachers to cue external rotation of the shoulder joint in Downward Facing Dog. There is a widespread belief that externally rotating the shoulder joint when weight-bearing is the correct choice while internal rotation here is bad and potentially injurious. Read on to find out more!
Read moreAre Joints Noises a Sign of Premature Aging?
The exact cause of the sounds that our joints make is not always completely understood. There is agreement in the literature regarding the formation of a bubble as part of the mechanism of some joint crepitus.
Read moreTo Tuck or Not to Tuck? That is the Question!
Tucking the tailbone is essentially tilting your pelvis in the posterior direction (imagine the pelvis as a bowl of water and you are tipping the water behind you). Untucking the tailbone is the opposite: tilting your pelvis in the anterior direction (and tipping the water in front of you).
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