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 | 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 | Feb 10, 2015 | Anatomy, Biomechanics, Connective Tissue, Flexibility, Muscle, Stretching, 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 | Asana, Biomechanics, Flexibility, Stretching, 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 | Biomechanics, Flexibility, Muscle, Stretching, 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...
by Jules | Oct 22, 2014 | Biomechanics, Connective Tissue, Flexibility, Muscle, Private Yoga, Yoga Biomechanics, Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Therapy
I finally did it. I completed my literature based research and successfully defended my thesis to the evaluating committee – I am officially peer reviewed. I honestly never thought it would end. There were times I just wanted to walk away. I had already...
