How To Work With Lower Back Pain

How To Work With Lower Back Pain

The lower back is the most commonly injured area in the human body.  About 80% of people will experience at least once incidence in their lifetime and nearly 10-20% live with chronic pain. The common understanding when we have low back pain is that we must “strengthen...
Practicing Yoga During the Corona Quarantine

Practicing Yoga During the Corona Quarantine

These are very unique days.  I’ve found myself going through 3 phases over the last month.. The Whoa Phase Restlessness and Anxiety Laziness and Boredom The Whoa phase brought about a thought, “WTF is going on right now?  This is real.  Let’s hunker...
Hip Mobility Sequence

Hip Mobility Sequence

I recently made a post on Facebook about the needs of individual joints in the body and a term coined by Grey Cook, “The Joint-By-Joint-Approach.” The post got a lot traction.  You can read it HERE. I had seen a client who complained about severe back pain...
Sacroiliac Joint Sequence

Sacroiliac Joint Sequence

Today, I want to talk to you about the sacroiliac joint, an area of the body I have quite a history with. Back in 2009 I played my first ever 4.5 tennis tournament. I was an unseeded entry in a field of 64 at Santa Clara University in California. I had been playing a...
Why I Quit Yoga….And Why I’m Coming Back

Why I Quit Yoga….And Why I’m Coming Back

I have practiced yoga religiously since 1997. Between 2001 and 2007 I was on the mat nearly 4 hours every day.  During the periods I was in India I would reach around 7-8 hours of asana and pranayama daily. Somewhere around 2018, I lost my fire.  I didn’t want to...