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Category Archives: injury
Anniversary Week: The Architecture of healing
Tomorrow’s post will let you know how to get some free books and DVD’s that we are giving away to readers in appreciation of the the first anniversary of the blog. Today’s post is a return to the beginning of … Continue reading
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What is a Muscle Cramp?
Oftentimes when I go into wheel pose the inner arch of my right foot cramps. It feels as if the arch of my foot is being pulled higher with the big toe moving closer to the heel as the foot … Continue reading
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Knee Pain: Pressure Per Pound
This is my favorite time of year for different reasons. The arrival of spring is nice but the change of seasons also heralds hockey and basketball playoffs- as well as the beginning of baseball season. It also means that when … Continue reading
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The Psoas Major and Sit Ups
We all need a strong and balanced core. We all want a long and strong psoas major muscle. These two factors are equally important but they often get in each other’s way in the search for a functional body. The … Continue reading
Stretching Counter Intuitively
There is much I don’t understand. When it comes to the body I have no formal training outside of a yoga certification and a few week long teacher trainings. I opened a yoga center in Brooklyn soon … Continue reading
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The Hamstrings in Backbends: Wheel Pose
The hamstrings are extensor muscles that cross and act upon both the hip joint and the knee joint. Two of the three hamstrings (semitendinosus and semimembranosus) extend the hip when the trunk is fixed; they also flex the knee and … Continue reading
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The Birth of the Sciatic Nerve
The sciatic nerve, also known as the ischiatic nerve, is the longest, widest single nerve in the body. It’s the yellow nerve in the diagram on the left. At its largest point, it’s as big around as an index finger. … Continue reading
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Sciatica and Piriformis Syndrome: Stretch vs. Release
As soon as I started teaching I began to come across people who didn’t seem to be served by stretching. They would come to class regularly, but their hips or hamstrings or whatever, never seemed to change. It took a … Continue reading
Walking Story: Kidney Pain
Some problems are harder to solve than others. Patti, a longtime yoga student of mine, signed up for my Core Walking Program complaining of kidney pain. I instinctively knew something didn’t add up. While her walk was definitely in need … Continue reading
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More on Hyperextension of the Knee
Someone sent me this picture minutes after I put up yesterday’s post on hyperextension of the knee. Then I used the google machine to try and get at the logic behind Bikram yoga’s insistence on locking the knees during the … Continue reading
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