Author: Mandy Ryle
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Standing Practice for Stronger Legs
A quick standing practice to fire up your legs. This practice targets the posterior, anti gravity muscles: calves, hamstrings, glutes and also the quads. These muscles are highly correlated with higher metabolism, so this practice is a great way to rev things up during a day of sitting.
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Chair Yoga – Anti Gravity Practice
This accessible practice is a blend of Yoga and strength work using a chair. It’s a great practice if you are new to resistance training but has much to offer the seasoned practitioner as well.
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Getting to Know Your Back Part Four
If you are a movement geek like me, you will be blown away by the simple complexity of this somatic experience. Prepare to feel stuff you may not have felt in your back before. We will also be touching on one more important back related topic that can’t be ignored. The influence that society and…
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Getting to Know Your Back Part Three
In this practice, we will explore another layer of the experience of the back, the Thoraco Lumbar Fascia. I am fascinated by fascia and have spent a great deal of time studying it. But the TLF is special. The fascia in the low back is unique as you will learn in this practice.
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Getting to Know Your Back Part Two
Many who have back pain believe that their spine is unstable. There is a distinct feeling of instability and vulnerability in the back that is reinforced by confusing or misleading messages coming from popular culture and even medical professionals.
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Getting to Know Your Back Part One
The back is an incredibly complicated structure anatomically, but even more so when you consider other parts of the experience like the the vascular system and the nervous system. But humans are not just walking talking tissues. We are embodied selves with thoughts, feelings, beliefs and predictions. These parts of our experience are EVERY BIT…
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Chair Yin for Travel Aches and Pains
I’ve chosen the stretches we all crave when we’ve been sitting in a car or airplane, or just during a day of work as well as regulation practices to help you calm your nervous systems to get some perspective or even relief. This practice is a quick and accessible practice that you can do just…
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Deep Hip Learning
The hip is more than a collection of tissues. It’s a unique and complicated element of the embodied self. In this practice we combine a somatic lesson with some of your favorite Yin poses. These will facilitate deep learning for you and your hips!
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Chair Yoga: Lunges and Twists
This is a perfect practice for your lunch break at home or at the office, or if you have some movement issues that make it hard for you to get to the floor. You’ll get your heart pumping and stretch all the right places.
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The Pillars of Self Care
Humans now exist in an environment that we are not adapted for. The essential requirements that we require for optimal health and resilience are no longer present. The diseases that now plague humans, especially those who live in the West, were uncommon or non-existent for our ancient ancestors. Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, etc… are a…
