by Jules | Jul 6, 2015 | Articles
I am not sure how or why this division came about, but whether or not to bend the knees during a hamstring stretch is a fiercely contested topic in the yoga community. Perhaps it is because injury at the proximal tendon (yellow part of photo below) is quite common among yoga teachers and students. When I lead biomechanics workshops for yoga teachers, I often ask who in the room has experienced, or knows someone who has experienced, proximal hamstring tendon injuries. The show of hands is staggering.
by Jules | Feb 10, 2015 | Articles, Yoga Biomechanics
Your hamstrings aren’t short, they are low in extensibility. There. I said it. What I’d really like to do now is run and hide, since the questions and discussions on social media will likely overwhelm my schedule. I mean, I’ve already led...
by Jules | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Yoga Biomechanics
The theme song from Frozen may as well be the mantra for many yoga classes – where letting go, surrendering, and opening your (fill in the blank) are seductively crooned by the teacher at the front of the room, perhaps only a little less emphatically...
by Jules | Nov 18, 2014 | Articles, Yoga Biomechanics
Headlines are so misleading. All of them. Except this one. Stretching does improve flexibility. Really. It does. The data tell us so. Until the data tell us differently, I feel confident in saying that stretching improves flexibility. In fact, stretching...
