For at least 15 years, I’ve been able to predict one comment every single time I post a photo of myself, or one of my students, in a deep backbend.

“OUCH.”

Sometimes they really commit to it. OUCCCHHHHH.😂

It still makes me laugh because the person actually IN the backbend is usually thinking anyt...

This past week, while on a summer break from teaching, my life changed.

It sounds dramatic, but it's true.

There was no life-altering event or big shocking reveal. I simply slept. And when I say I slept, I mean I entered the Olympics of sleeping.

I would wake up at my usual time, take Tilly outsi...

Somewhere along the way, the word “core” got reduced to six-pack abs, endless crunches, and workouts that leave your neck hurting more than your body feeling stronger.

Meanwhile, many women in midlife are walking around frustrated because their bodies suddenly feel different. Their balance feels of...

The other day in class, one of my students came up out of Bridge and just paused for a second.

She looked at me and said, “That felt… different.”

Same pose. Same body. But everything about it had changed.

Her lift was higher, yes. But more than that, it looked organized. Supported. Like her body ...

“I guess I’m just always wondering if I’m doing it right,” she said.

I paused because I was getting a major spark of inspiration and a big Truth was hitting me at the same time.

We were in the thick of this month’s Live Q&A session where we explore a posture, or a thought about a posture, a little...

Most women don’t need another hip stretch. They need hips they can trust.

Let me guess.

You already practice yoga. You’re not new. You’re not intimidated by a lunge. You’ve held plank longer than you wanted to, you’ve breathed through poses that used to feel impossible, and you’re active enough th...

Most yoga students think they need to become more flexible to advance their practice.

But here’s the truth almost nobody talks about:

Muscles aren’t “flexible." They contract and relax.

What you call flexibility is your nervous system’s willingness to let you access the range of motion you’re alr...

Why Arm Balances Are the Unexpected Superpower for Women 40+

Somewhere along the way, we were told that strength training after 40 should look like reps, weights, and machines that beep at you if you use them wrong. And listen... there’s nothing wrong with picking up dumbbells if that’s your thing....

There’s a point in midlife when you stop asking for permission.

You stop wondering what other people will think if you go to a yoga retreat, start working on inversions, or book that weekend completely for you.

It’s not rebellion. It’s recognition.

You finally realize that nobody else is going to...

When most people think of handstand, they picture an advanced yoga pose that’s all about flipping upside down. But the truth is, the biggest benefits of handstand have nothing to do with “getting inverted” at all. Working on handstand (even in small, consistent ways) can completely change how you mo...

Have you noticed this trend lately?

Every health and fitness guru says the same thing once you hit 40:
➡️ “You need to lift heavy weights to build muscle.”

And I don’t disagree. Strength training matters.

But here’s the head-scratcher…

The very same voices who push strength training tell you to ...

I’ll never forget the first time I truly began working toward Full Cobra Pose. Up until then, Cobra was just something we did in vinyasa—press your hands down, lift your chest, then move on. But the deeper I trained toward Full Cobra, the more I realized how much was hidden inside that simple shape....