by Jules | Nov 16, 2016 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Stretching, Yoga Biomechanics
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I have been teaching all over North America and between traveling, updating my slideshow, creating handouts, seeing private clients, and making time for a personal yoga practice, writing time has been scarce. Then we had...
by Jules | May 25, 2016 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Flexibility, Stretching, Yoga Biomechanics, Yoga Events
This blog is sort of like a podcast, only you have to read it. It’s basically a conversation between me and my friend/colleague, Charlie Reid, about yoga and resistance stretching. We email often, so this is a glimpse into one of our email threads, just...
by Jules | Mar 17, 2016 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Muscle, Stretching, Yoga Biomechanics
My friend and colleague, Jenn Pilotti, delivers again with a guest blog on an important topic for yoga teachers. I actually find the dialogue she has begun here to be so essential to education for yoga teachers, I have a hashtag for it: #thepigeonconversation As...
by Jules | Feb 3, 2016 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Muscle, Yoga Biomechanics
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. Too long. But to put things in perspective, since my last post back in (gasp!) July, I was in Europe filming and on retreat, teaching workshops and seminars almost every weekend, putting together a book deal, and most...
by Jules | Jul 6, 2015 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Connective Tissue, Flexibility, Inversions, Muscle, Stretching, Sun Salutations
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...
by Jules | Apr 29, 2015 | Anatomy, Asana, Biomechanics, Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Therapy
Don’t you just love it when worlds collide? I have been friends with a #bodynerd on facebook who posts the most awesome “Wednesday Musings” about her observations while working with clients, but I didn’t actually know who she was. In...
