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 | Jun 26, 2016 | Biomechanics, Muscle, Restorative Yoga, Stretching, Yoga Biomechanics
Stretching. That one simple word is anything but simple. It’s a linguistic divide among the yoga community. On one side we have the “yoga is not stretching” camp and on the other side we go to public yoga classes, and we do what seems to be stretching. In fact,...
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 | 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 | Mar 5, 2015 | Biomechanics, Muscle, Stretching, Yoga Biomechanics
As you all know, the conversations I treasure most are those I have with #bodynerd colleagues. This week, my friend, Charlie Reid, put aside a couple hours to discuss titin with me. As all our conversations go, we start with some previously selected research...
